October 26, 2008 -- November 1, 2008

Worlds apart on global trade
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
During the primaries, Mr. Obama said he "will make sure we renegotiate" the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA), using the threat to withdraw ...

Obama bad for Canada: Celluci
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Obama's comments on NAFTA, made at a Democratic candidate's debate during the Ohio primary earlier this year, brought Canada squarely into US presidential ...

NAFTA challenge won't stop Ont. from going ahead with pesticide ...
The Canadian Press - TORONTO
TORONTO — Ontario won't back down from its plan to prohibit the cosmetic use and sale of weed killer 2,4-D despite a NAFTA challenge to Quebec's pesticide ...

Where they stand on trade
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
McCain: Ardent supporter of NAFTA as agreement is written today. Voted for trade agreements with Central America, South Korea, Chile, Colombia and other ...

NAFTA too important to lose: US ambassador
WinnipegSun - Canada
By THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- US Ambassador David Wilkins says whoever wins the American presidency next week will discover that NAFTA is far too ...

The Election Choice: Trade
Wall Street Journal - USA
Trade within Nafta topped $930 billion in 2007, more than three times what it was in 1993, the year before Nafta was implemented. ...

US Ambassador Wilkins says NAFTA too important to be withdrawn
Miramichi Leader - Miramichi,New Brunswick,Canada
MONTREAL - US Ambassador David Wilkins says whoever wins the American presidency next week will discover that NAFTA is far too important to the continent ...

Dow's NAFTA challenge ties our lawmakers' hands
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Dow Chemical's NAFTA Chapter 11 challenge of Quebec's restriction on the use of 2,4-D is the latest in a series of blows to Canadian legislators' ability to ...

Mood Shift Against Free Trade Puts Republicans on Defensive
Wall Street Journal - USA
During the primary, he suggested he would support strengthening labor and environmental requirements in Nafta. But Sen. Obama's chief economic adviser, ...

Canada 'well-positioned' for relationship with next US leader: Cannon
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
He downplayed any suggestion that the so-called NAFTA-gate scandal would affect Canada's relationship with Obama, who is currently leading in pre-election ...

McClanahan's column: Obama's bad trade ideas
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
But when Goolsbee’s remarks were made public, the Obama campaign repeated the renegotiate- NAFTA pledge. John McCain, by contrast, has a strong free-trade ...

Obama's Economic Plan
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
On its face, this would mean that, if elected, Barack Obama would raise taxes on all taxpayers, support NAFTA and reduce welfare, three cornerstones of the ...

Protectionist fears waft from US crisis
Financial Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
But NAFTA is probably on the back burner now, given the economic and financial morass the next president is facing. If it does reignite as an issue further ...

Canadians for Obama, but Republicans for Canada
AFP
But Obama's call for the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) to be renegotiated to include environmental and labor standards is controversial in ...

America votes 2008: What it means to us
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Obama, on the other hand, has talked of renegotiating portions of NAFTA to make it more favourable to the US – and, by implication, less so to Canada and ...

Obama could dance all over wallflower's toes
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
But in dumping on Barack Obama over a NAFTA memo recklessly leaked by Stephen Harper's Conservatives, the Republican nominee also eulogized Canada as a ...