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WASHINGTON (AP) — North America’s leaders are reviving a three-way summit after a Trump-era hiatus.

as President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues the tradition of the North American Leaders’ Summit on Thursday, the three allies face deep divergences over migration, climate and trade.

“There isn’t much in common between them, at least in their vision of what they want for their country,” said Kenneth Frankel, president of the Canadian Council of the Americas. “Not only what they want for their country, but what they can offer for their country.”

Thursday’s meetings at the White House will be the first tripartite meeting of North American leaders since the June 2016 meeting. Trudeau, Barack Obama and Enrique Peña Nieto in Ottawa. The meetings took a break in the administration of President Donald Trump, who was at odds with each other. Trudeau and during Nieto’s tenure.

Biden After the turbulent Trump years, the United States has made some progress in restoring relations with its neighbors. But many important strains remained – and some new ones emerged.

Trudeau came Washington Concerned about the American procurement provisions in the President’s proposed $1.85 trillion social services plan. Mexicans priorities leading up to the summit were tangible advances in immigration and fairer access to COVID-19 vaccines.

The tradition of the tripartite meeting began when George W. Bush hosted the meeting. MexicanVicente Fox and CanadaPaul Martin for interviews at his ranch in Waco, Texas in 2005.

Biden already held separate virtual meetings with Trudeau in February and López Obrador in March.

Biden will meet separately with Trudeau and López Obrador on Thursday, before leaders hold a tripartite session for the US president in the middle of a big week. Biden He enacted a $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Monday, held a virtual summit with China’s Xi Jinping that night, and traveled for the next two days to promote the provisions in the spending agreement. It’s also trying to push its social services and climate spending plan.

There are growing concerns Canada It’s about a provision in the spending plan that would give US consumers $7,500 in tax breaks if they buy electric vehicles by 2026. The following year, only electric vehicle purchases made in the United States would qualify for the credit. Had the vehicle been manufactured in a US factory operating under a union-negotiated collective bargaining agreement, the base credit would have increased by $4,500.

Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland described the stimulus as a flagrant violation of an updated trade agreement between the three countries aimed at protecting US jobs and products made in North America. Trudeau, Freeland and other Canadian ministers met with US officials on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said she had raised concerns about the supply of electric vehicles with Foreign Minister Antony Blinken last week.

Freeland said: Canada“The first task here in the US this week is to really make our American colleagues aware of how much of a problem their current approach to this issue is. Canada and to really explain to them that the way they formulate that incentive really, really has the potential to become the dominant issue in our bilateral relationship.”

White House spokesman Chris Meagher said electric vehicle tax incentives are an important part of economic development. BidenPressure to link efforts to reduce climate emissions with job creation in the US

USA and Canada, meanwhile, have expressed disappointment that López Obrador is not participating in global efforts to reduce climate emissions. The Mexican president skipped the UN climate summit in Glasgow this month.

López Obrador’s government, on the other hand, wants to strengthen the promised US development funds for Central America’s Northern Triangle countries. The Mexican leader continues to pressure the United States to finance expansion. her Tree planting program in Central America.

Mexican Worked with the USA – both Trump and Biden – controlling immigrant flows and helping immigrants return to Central America. The two countries are still negotiating a court-ordered re-implementation of a Trump-era policy. Mexicanforcing asylum seekers to wait for the asylum process in the United States Mexican.

Lopez Obrador also mentioned many times her Interest in the US government expanding its temporary work visa program so more Mexicans and Central Americans can meet US labor demand.

incoming Washington On Wednesday, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said his government will focus on three issues: the pandemic, economic integration and immigration. On immigration, Ebrard said: Mexican would try to rally support for the two López Obrador‘s signature social programs – tree planting and youth job opportunities – to reduce push factors for migration.

US Ambassador Ken Salazar Mexicanrecently expressed “serious concerns” about the Mexican government’s attempts to limit competition in the electric power sector.

Trudeau and Biden They are also expected to discuss the future of an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes and is the subject of growing tensions over whether to shut it down. Biden He was caught in a battle on Enbridge’s Line 5, an essential part of a pipeline network that transports Canadian oil to the US Midwest.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Democrat and Biden Its ally has demanded that the 68-year-old line be closed because of the potential for a catastrophic break in the 6.4-kilometer 4-mile stretch of the Strait of Mackinac, which connects Lake Huron with Lake Michigan. The Biden administration has not taken a position, but is under increasing pressure to do so.

Canada Last month, he brought up a 1977 agreement that guaranteed the unimpeded transit of oil between the two countries.