Canadian ambassador feared he was a 'NAFTAgate' scapegoat

[CHIMO]

Source: The Canadian Press

Canada's former ambassador to Washington worried someone in the Harper government was making him a scapegoat for a damaging leak during Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency, an internal e-mail shows.

Michael Wilson was at the centre of a political storm after the leak of a Canadian diplomatic memo that said Mr. Obama was not serious about reforming the North American Free Trade Agreement, despite public statements he would do so.

In a report Feb. 29, 2008, ABC News cited a source close to the Prime Minister's Office as confirming a Canadian diplomat met in Chicago with an Obama economic adviser. The adviser reportedly said the candidate's NAFTA comments should be taken with a grain of salt.

In the same broadcast, ABC News cited the PMO source as saying Mr. Wilson had “exaggerated” the adviser's comments when he spoke about them with Ian Brodie, then the Prime Minister's chief of staff.



Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-ambassador-feared-he-was-a-naftagate-scapegoat/article1476191/

[SlingBlade]

1. Mr. Obama was not serious about reforming the NAFTA

I'm Shocked, Shocked I tell ya that Obama wasn't serious about his rhetoric on NAFTA

Well, Ah, It's alright, That's just one issue, Just wait until he brings about Single Payer Health Care Reforms , Cleans up the Wall Street influence in D.C , Ends the War in Iraq and throttles down the War in Afghanistan. Just wait until he puts a stop to assassinations, torture and holds those War Criminals Responsible for what they did in OUR name. Can't wait until he puts an end to Dubya's Warrantless Wiretapping,Detention without Charges or Trials and Handouts to Wall Street and Big Insurance, And those Tax Cuts, How bout those Paris Hilton Tax Cuts. Their gonna know a new sheriff is in town when Corporate Malfeasance is brought to the bar of justice and he ends those Bush era Faith-Based Initiatives. And when he's done with all of that, Think Green. Think, Nuclear Power !

Life is Good !

[BunkerHill24]

3. Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners

Canada is also the largest U.S. agricultural market. Obama had no intentions messing about it.

[boppers]

2. The whole thing was exaggerated? You don't say.

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