Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay is in Mexico City today to meet with his counterpart there, just days after two Canadian citizens were wounded in a shooting at an Acapulco hotel.

MacKay is expected to raise the issue of safety for Canadian tourists as he meets with Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Patricia Espinosa and congressional leaders.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Helena Guergis told Canada AM Wednesday that MacKay will press officials about the increasing number of violent and deadly incidents involving Canadians.

She said MacKay will ask "for a very thorough, a very timely and a very transparent investigation for all of the cases."

Rita Callara, 55, and a Canadian man, both from the Niagara Falls region, were each shot in the leg Saturday after a gunman fired a semi-automatic weapon at the Casa Inn hotel in Acapulco.

Then on Tuesday, there was more violence in the popular vacation destination as gunmen disguised as soldiers attacked two police stations, killing seven people. Media reports say each attack was carried out by about eight men.

The police station shootings are believed to be tied to the illegal drug trade in the area.

A string of incidents involving Canadian tourists in Mexico has prompted calls for the Canadian government to issue a travel advisory for the country.

Canada's Foreign Affairs Department has so far only issued a travel report for Mexico but not a full-fledged travel advisory. It is one of over 200 such reports available on the federal government's website for nations around the world, Guergis said.

The reports are designed to give travellers information about what to expect when visiting another country.

"Right now, with respect to Mexico, it does in fact inform Canadians that there have been some random shootings of Canadians, to take extra caution," said Guergis. "They're not believing that Canadians are being targeted but just to make them aware of the situation."

Guergis encouraged people to visit the Foreign Affairs website or call Consular Services for information before travelling abroad. But a travel advisory appears unlikely to happen at this time.

"I would suggest to you that Canadians would have to be targeted," Guergis told Canada AM's Seamus O'Regan. "And Canadians are not being targeted in Mexico."

Earlier this week Liberal MP Dan McTeague called on the government to act.

"Events are of greater frequency and it may be a good time for Foreign Affairs Canada to update its travel advisories to urge Canadians to take matters into consideration before travelling there," McTeague said Monday.

Earlier incidents

A teen from Woodbridge, Ont., just northwest of Toronto, died last month while vacationing in Acapulco. Adam DePrisco, 19, was killed after attending a popular nightclub. Preliminary autopsy reports support the claim by Mexican police that he was struck in a hit-and-run crash.

DePrisco's family, however, believes he was beaten to death by locals for dancing with a man's girlfriend.

Less than two weeks after DePrisco's death, an elderly man from southwestern Ontario was killed in a hit-and-run accident that left his wife in a coma. Clifford Glasier and his wife Janette Lerch, of Chatham, had been renting a house in the country for four months when they were struck crossing a street near Lake Chapala.

Glasier's death came about 11 months after Woodbridge couple Dominic and Nancy Ianiero were found slain at a resort near Cancun, on the Caribbean side.

Mexican authorities have been accused of bungling their murder investigation.

Guergis reiterated that MacKay will encourage Mexican government officials to pursue a thorough investigation of the Ianiero case. But she added that Mexico has its own laws and policies that must be respected.

"While we work very closely with them with our consular services to ensure that all of our Canadians' human rights are respected, they do have their own laws there and it's very difficult for another country to come in and start dictating to another country how they should be running things." Guergis said.

"We do as much as we possibly can but there are some things that we are limited in doing."