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Obama Denies Assuring Canada on NAFTA
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 03, 2008 04:48pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Monday, March 3, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | AP article.
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"Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show -- despite the disclosure of a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.
According to the memo obtained by The Associated Press, Obama's senior economic adviser told Canadian officials in Chicago that the debate over free trade in the Democratic presidential primary campaign was "political positioning" and that Obama was not really protectionist.
The adviser, Austan Goolsbee, said his comments to those officials were misinterpreted by the author, Joseph DeMora, who works for the Canadian consulate in Chicago and attended the meeting.
In Carrollton, Texas, Obama told reporters: "Nobody reached out to the Canadians to try to assure them of anything."
Asked why he had appeared to deny a report last week that such a meeting had taken place, Obama said: "That was the information I had at the time."
The original report by CTV in Canada suggested an Obama emissary had reached out to officials at the Canadian Embassy in Washington. Embassy officials artfully denied any such contact had been made with them.
As it turned out, the meeting took place in Chicago instead, with Canadian Consul General Georges Rioux and DeMora taking notes." |
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