June 8, 2008 -- June 14, 2008

The alternative to free trade is a severe recession
Globe and Mail - Canada
If the Democrats win the coming US election and set about dismantling the North American free-trade agreement (NAFTA), as they have proposed, ...

Free trade a boon to Michigan's ailing economy
Niles Daily Star - MI, USA
Jennifer Granholm scorned the landmark trade agreements of the past 15 years with a dismissive quip, " NAFTA and CAFTA have given us the shafta. ...

EU trade chief urges US candidates to think globally
Reuters - USA
"Who would have thought, 10 years ago, that you would hear serious US presidential candidates putting NAFTA in question? Or calling into question the ...

The (Bill) Clinton Legacy
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Already, this campaign has seen tremendous pressure on the Democratic candidates to repudiate NAFTA, arguably the signature trade achievement of the Clinton ...

Solutions in speeches?
MSNBC - USA
This is the first time Goolsbee has spoken publicly for the campaign, since his role in so-called NAFTA-gate, which became an issue before the Democratic ...

Goolsbee Returns!
National Journal - Washington,DC,USA
A reporter's question about the IL senator's NAFTA plans went unanswered. Furman told the reporter that he's new and didn't have a ready reply, and Goolsbee ...

Bob Rae speaks for “President Obama”?
CanadaFree Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Rae said that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are in deep doo-doo if Barak Obama wins the presidency next November because of the NAFTA leak that ...

McCain pushing Obama for free-for-all town hall debates
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
McCain also hit Obama for his call to revisit NAFTA. "Unfortunately Senator Obama has a habit of talking down the value of our exports and trade agreements. ...

McCain Says Obama's Economic Plan Amounts to Tax Increase
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
“He even proposed a unilateral re-negotiation of NAFTA -- our agreement with Canada and Mexico that accounts for 33 percent of American exports.”

'Globalisation needs America. America needs globalisation'
guardian.co.uk - UK
In their battle for blue-collar workers in the primary, Obama and Hillary Clinton pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement ( Nafta) ...

Ann Richards and Barack Obama
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Richards was terrific in pitching Texas, using her personality to sell NAFTA, GM plants, jobs, movies all that. She had a style you couldn't argue against. ...

The Jason Furman Saga: Has Obama Fired His New Economic Adviser Yet?
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
... making sure the benefits of trade are more widely dispersed and the losers from trade taken care of—not scrapping NAFTA or the World Trade Organization. ...

Break Into the Global Marketplace
MSNBC - USA
The North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) promotes trade between the US, Canada and Mexico; the US-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade ...

Obama Economic Adviser Draws Fire
ABC News - USA
... Democratic nominee will challenge corporate power and make good on his promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA). ...

Canada lobbies Congress in defense of NAFTA
Reuters - USA
New US jobs have been created by rising US exports, which have been made more competitive by the imports received from your NAFTA partners," Wilson said, ...

John McCain to speak in Canada
AFP -
In March, Obama's rival Hillary Clinton accused him of criticizing the NAFTA accord for political gain, citing a leaked Canadian government memo that ...

McCain's Canada Trip: An Unintended Consequence?
Atlantic Online - USA
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government still faces questions about who leaked a memo about Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee's NAFTA climb-downs to the ...

Cheney says Democrats on 'destructive path' in trade
AFP -
"In a time when even NAFTA is being called into doubt -- when candidates can draw cheers by denouncing trade deals with our next-door neighbors -- then ...

McCain to give speech on free trade during visit to Canada next week
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton both criticized NAFTA during their primary campaign in Ohio, Pennsylvania and other industrial states where workers have ...

McCain coming to Ottawa to talk free trade
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
The visit also appears designed to re-focus attention on the so-called NAFTA-gate episode that embarrassed his Democratic rival, Barrack Obama, ...

McCain heads to Canada to tout free trade
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
NAFTA has been an unlikely source of controversy throughout the 2008 campaign. In February, Obama became embroiled in controversy after his senior economic ...

High oil: NAFTA's trump card
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
North America is a different matter and a NAFTA energy policy could benefit all. The biggest challenges are America’s wasteful consumption and Mexico’s ...

McCain speech a hot ticket in Ottawa
Globe and Mail - Canada
It was later leaked that the Clinton campaign had told the Canadian Embassy not to worry about the anti- NAFTA comments on the campaign trail. ...

Anti- NAFTA lobby threatens Canadian economy
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
By FRED MCMAHON CANADA’S anti- NAFTA faction – at least, those in the faction who actually care about Canadian workers – should pray it doesn’t get what it ...

An anti-Clinton for VP
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Now, John McCain is trumpeting his support for NAFTA, deregulation and intensifying the war in Iraq. It is the Arizona senator's very own kind of Clintonism ...

McCain pushing free trade; plans speech in Canada
The Associated Press -
Obama, who four years ago declared NAFTA had been beneficial, recently talked about reopening NAFTA to strengthen enforcement of labor and environmental ...

Nafta energy policy
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
North America is a different matter, and a NAFTA energy policy could benefit all. The biggest challenges are America's wasteful consumption and Mexico's ...

Tariff to Nowhere
New York Times - United States
Clinton has called for a “time out” on new trade deals, and Obama has insisted he would renegotiate Nafta. Given that most economists think Nafta, ...