No we can't!

3 March 2008 By Martin Hutchinson

His recent promise to renegotiate NAFTA and his campaign s subsequentlydenied reassurance to Canada are disquieting. His advisors are moderate, but Obama has been rated the US Senate s most liberal member. So which is he: thoughtful moderate or closet extremist?

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At the Cleveland TV debate February 28, Barack Obama said that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, signed by Presdient Bill Clinton in 1994.

CTV, the Canadian television network, then claimed that a senior Obama advisor, believed to be his chief economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, had told the Canadian consulate general in Chicago that talk by Obama of opting out of NAFTA was campaign rhetoric, not to be taken seriously.

Subsequently, Goolsbee referred all calls to the campaign, which said that no such conversation had taken place.

National Journal rated Obama the most liberal member of the US Senate for 2007, according to its annual vote ratings.

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At the Cleveland TV debate February 28, Barack Obama said that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, signed by Presdient Bill Clinton in 1994.

Subsequently, Goolsbee referred all calls to the campaign, which said that no such conversation had taken place.

National Journal rated Obama the most liberal member of the US Senate for 2007, according to its annual vote ratings.

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