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Excerpted from NY Times, “Nafta Looming Over Obama’s Canada Trip”, February 19, 2009

President Obama used his visit to “underscore the importance of what is already a very robust trading relationship” and to “look for ways to grow on that as it relates to new and entrepreneurial and innovative technologies on energy and green technology.”

That is a far cry from the language of Candidate Obama. He said in a Democratic debate last year that the United States should consider leaving Nafta if the agreement could not be renegotiated.

“Ten years after Nafta passed …  I don’t think Nafta has been good for America — and I never have.”

His campaign was caught in a flap over reports that a top economic adviser to Mr. Obama, Austan Goolsbee, had tried to play down the candidate’s remarks by assuring Canadian officials that they were “more reflective of political maneuvering than policy.” The Obama campaign dismissed the reports as untrue.

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Full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/us/19trade.html?pagewanted=print

Campaign flashback: Ny Times, “Memo Gives Canada’s Account of Obama Campaign’s Meeting on Nafta”, March 4, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/politics/04nafta.html

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