"Obama talks trade in Canada; He treads lightly on thorny issues such as energy" by Jennifer Loven, Associated Press | February 20, 2009
OTTAWA - President Obama courted warmer relations with America's northern neighbor yesterday, declining to ask war-weary Canada to do more in Afghanistan, promising that he won't allow protectionism to creep into US trade policy, and talking reassuringly around thorny energy issues....
Then how come he's DEMANDING and ORDERING a WAR-WEARY AMERICA to do same?
Canada, which has had more than 100 troops killed in Afghanistan, plans to withdraw its 2,500 combat troops out of the volatile south by 2011.....
Crowds in the snowy Canadian capital cheered Obama's seven-hour visit, his first outside US borders as president, and he returned the compliment with a quick stop at an indoor market where he delighted shopkeepers by picking up cookies and souvenirs for his daughters.
They canceled the global-warming portion of the talks, didn't they?
"I love this country and think that we could not have a better friend and ally," Obama said earlier as he appeared side by side with Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada at gothic Parliament Hill.
The U.S.? No, CANADA! Can you say N.A.U., oops!?
Harper in turn rolled out the red carpet for the new president, saying that Obama's election "launches a new chapter in the rich history of Canada-US relations."
The Conservative leader had been close to President George W. Bush, personally and on policy. But he made clear that he was casting his and his country's lot now with the vastly more popular Obama. "As we all know, one of President Obama's big missions is to continue world leadership by the United States of America, but in a way that is more collaborative," Harper said, an apparent reference to Bush's go-it-alone diplomatic style.
Well, THERE YOU GO!! That's why the GLOBALISTS INSTALLED HIM s president after BUSH advanced the agenda so well!!!!
Still, rhetorical niceties aside, there are some sharp differences between the United States and its largest trading partner and biggest supplier of oil. On several topics, where Obama offered reassurances, Harper offered mini-lectures, albeit gently delivered....
Obama was dissed and he just took it? What, Canada like Israel now?
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On trade, Obama stuck to his campaign pledge to seek changes eventually in the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement to increase enforcement of labor and environmental standards - but said he intended to do so in a way "that is not disruptive to the extraordinarily important trade relationships that exist between the United States and Canada."
Feeling a bit disappointed in the broken promise, labor? TO the BACK of the LINE!! Us ANTIWAR FOLK FIRST!!
Yeah, yeah, I know the revisionism says he never commited to anything in the campaign, it was all rhetoric, blah-blah. Whatever. That's the whole point; he's nothing but a globalist bullsh***er!
Harper said he might be willing to negotiate, but not by "opening the whole NAFTA and unraveling what is a very complex agreement."
He sounded a similar warning on a "Buy American" clause that Congress added to the $787 billion economic stimulus package. "We expect the United States to adhere to its international obligations," Harper said. "I can't emphasize how important it is that we do that."
Unless we ILLEGALY INVADE other nations or TORTURE PEOPLE, right? Where are the condemnations, Harp?
Obama promised that the United States would do just that and declared, "Now is a time where we have to be very careful about any signals of protectionism."
If I had a billion-dollar bailout for every broken promise.... SEE YA!!!!!
Harper said he was pleased that Canada now has a North American partner to help provide leadership on climate change, and Obama said wealthy countries such as the United States and Canada must take leadership roles on the issue.
Yeah, even as it SNOWS in the CAPITOL!!!!!
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