President George W. Bush is joining the conservative leaders of Canada and Mexico, in his final North American Leaders' Summit, in order to discuss trade, economic, security, food and product safety, energy and environment related issues.

Bush has chosen New Orleans as the location of the summit to prove the city has restored since being devastated by Hurricane Katrina, but the city’s struggling following the disaster is not expected to be a major topic to be discussed at the conference.

Bush’s administration was strongly criticized for responding too slowly to the hurricane that ravaged the city in August 2005.

The main subject that President Bush and his Canadian and Mexican counterparts are going to focus on is the 14-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.

"We'd like to enhance and strengthen an already dynamic and strong relationship, to deepen the cooperation by building on the common interests of our citizens," said Dan Fisk, senior director of Western Hemisphere Affairs for the National Security Council, according to the Houston Chronicle. "The North American relationship works; we believe it works well for all three countries, but we also believe we can make it work better."

The three countries share the largest trading partnership in the world, with a total of $1 trillion a year.

According to the Associated Press, Bush said he planned to talk Monday to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon about expanding trade in the Western Hemisphere.

The summit comes in a period of economic decline for the United States, and many blame the North American Free Trade Agreement for the recession the country is heading toward.

Both Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have announced their intentions of renegotiating NAFTA or even abandoning it, as a means to pressure Canada and Mexico to protect the workers and the environment more. But Bush completely disagrees with the idea, considering it isolationist and reckless.