Clinton didn't brief Canadian officials on NAFTA stand: PMO [View All]

[Liberalboy]

I was disgusted with Prime Minster Harper, and even more so now; this only makes Obama look worse, as though he will do whatever it takes to get elected (and before anyone flames me, I like the man...this is just an fyi post!)

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Hillary Clinton's campaign team has never told any Canadian officials that their candidate's anti-NAFTA statements are just political posturing, the Prime Minister's Office said Friday.

In the midst of the so-called NAFTA-gate affair, the PMO clarified — two days after it was first asked a question about the matter — that Canadian officials never requested, nor received, a private briefing from Clinton's aides on her position on the continental trade treaty.

"The answer is no, they did not," Sandra Buckler, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said Friday.

Meanwhile Friday, NDP Leader Jack Layton accused the Conservatives of employing their own form of doublespeak on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Layton cited a U.S. legislator saying David Emerson, Canada's trade minister, told him privately last month that he'd be willing to reopen the 15-year-old trade agreement.

"It sounds as though the government is saying one thing and doing another," Layton told the CBC's Don Newman.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/07/clinton-nafta-gate.html?ref=rss