On the first question, I think the government has talked about shifting its aid effort from Africa to the Americas. I work every winter in Mexico because I can't study the Canadian-American relationship without knowing what the Mexican relationship with us and the United States is. There isn't much evidence that the Canadian government is putting more effort and more money into its relationship with the United States. We have, for instance, only 17 scholarships for Mexican students to do graduate work in Canada.
On Mr. Obama, in his campaigns for the nomination and then for the actual job, I don't think he said much about Mexico. He voted in favour of the wall during the Bush administration. He said nice things to the National Rifle Association during the election.
This suggests, in his first period in power in any case, that he's not going to look at the root cause of the drug problem, namely, the consumer demand for drugs, which itself causes the cartels to make their huge profits and kill off thousands and thousands of people in Mexico. Also, he hasn't shown any willingness to risk political capital on the immigration question.
Nevertheless, he is obviously conscious of the Mexican problem, but given his other priorities, which are urgent on the economic front and urgent on the international financial front, I wouldn't expect him to spend political capital on Mexico.