Canada's Premiers want a new Trade Deal with the US

by albertacowpoke | June 9, 2009 at 04:27 pm

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Canada's Premiers called for a new agreement with the US to extend free trade to municipalities. Lobbyists fanned out over Washington to press US Legislators to soften their Buy America policies. The Premiers believe that it is now the time that Canada and the US collaborate closer in trade issues, to include all levels (Federal, Provincial and Municipal) of government.

The call of the Premiers comes as lobbyists are in Washington trying to persuade Congress that the Protectionism will cost American jobs as well as hurt Canadian companies, some of which are owned by American Companies.

The Premiers did not get specific by citing the Mayor's resolution, but stated that the new Protectionist measures were not welcome.

Canada has been lobbying for some time for more open trade between the two countries.

OTTAWA -- Canada's premiers called for a new agreement Tuesday with the United States to extend free trade to provincial, state and municipal governments as Canadian lobbyists fanned out over Washington to press U.S. legislators to soften their Buy America purchasing policies.

`Premiers believe the time has come for all orders of government in Canada and the U.S. to engage in a renewed era of collaboration to ensure open markets between the two countries," they wrote in a news release Tuesday afternoon.

The new call comes as more than a dozen Canadian trade officials waged a full-court press in the U.S. Congress in an attempt to persuade lawmakers that their protectionist legislation will cost American jobs as well as hurt Canadian businesses, some of which are owned by American companies.