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McCain heads to Canada to tout free trade

by Barry Artiste | June 12, 2008 at 05:01 am

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Perhaps a "Coup" for McCain meeting with the United States largest trading partner, whereby it is said Obama and Clinton stated they would scrap the Nafta agreement, only to backtrack once it was made public.

McCain heads to Canada to tout free tradeSheldon Alberts, Washington Correspondent, Canwest News ServicePublished: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain will visit Canada next week at the height of an intense election-year debate with his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, over the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Arizona senator will speak June 20 in Ottawa at a luncheon hosted by the Economic Club of Canada, said Nicolee Tattersall, the group's global manager of public affairs.

"We are very excited to be able to offer this," Tattersall said Wednesday night.NAFTA has been an unlikely source of controversy throughout the 2008 campaign.

In February, Obama became embroiled in controversy after his senior economic adviser reportedly told Canadian diplomats that the Illinois senator's threat to renegotiate NAFTA was "political positioning."

McCain has been a strong supporter of NAFTA and this week blasted Obama for being critical of a deal he says has been a huge benefit to the United States.

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Felton Barch

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 19:59 on June 15th, 2008

Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Trust, yet verify anything you hear from politicians during a pre-election cycle :)

Barry Artiste

at 05:33 on June 16th, 2008

Thanks Felton for the visit, comment and GS, certainly Politicians say a lot of things to get elected, let's hope McCain is true to his word versus his opposition. Thanks again, much appreciated