Canada defends Obama over NAFTA flap

But the Canadian Embassy in Washington released a statement essentially backing up the Obama camp’s version of the meeting between adviser Austan Goolsbee and officials at the Canadian consulate in Chicago.

“There was no intention to convey, in any way, that Senator Obama and his campaign team were taking a different position in public from views expressed in private, including about NAFTA,” the embassy statement said. “We deeply regret any inference that may have been drawn to that effect.”

I don’t think we covered it here, but a minor tempest last week went out over a story from Canadian network CTV about how the Obama people, as the whole NAFTA debate in Ohio was getting heating, specifically went to Canadian officials and told th…

Hmmm…….

Have you seen the front cover of the March 19th edition of TIME?

It’s a picture showing the back of Obama’s head–facing into a spotlight–against a backdrop of darkness.

The effect gives him a type of “halo”. Deliberate?

Sheriff,
Canada spent the greatest part of the last 40 years designing,
constructing and operating a complex system of petroleum pipelines, and
separate natural gas pipelines, to serve the eastern Canadian market for
certain. However, the pipleline system could not have been built without
the economic contribution made by the US market. Today, seving the
eastern and east-central U.S. alone, there are 4 major operating lines
connected to the expanded network of the Trans Canada Pipeline Ltd system,
the main connection to this US market being Sarnia/Indianapolis.
Literally billlions have been spent on ‘looping” to ensure all markets are
satisfied with refined product.

Further, a few more recent projects carry unrefined Canadian crude.
Many national pipeline systsms in the US are connected to supply lines
from Canada, including those which move US domestic crude and crude
stored in locations near ports receiving supplies from non-Canadian sources.

The most recent pipeline project is intended to transport expected
product, currently being refined fpr immediate delivery, from Sable Island
and off-shore facilities south of Newfoundland. The required capacity
of these pipelines have not been published, to my knowledge, but you
can rest assured it is not only the formerly impoverished Provinces
alone which are anxious to finish market assets.The off-shore wells are
shared jurisdictions, so the Federal government has its own degree of
revenue to look forward to – and I dare say that greedy bunch in Ottawa
have probably spent, in their own minds, the future massive rewards
from operations. The only real market being served from the off-shore
rigs is the US.

Finally, from where would Canada
ship its petroleum to these fictitious new markets? From the one and
only port facility near Vancouver, B.C.? Possibly, as long as China or
whomever doesn’t expect to dock the new supertanker. Point Roberts has
to be upgraded first. There has been some talk about a port south of
Kitimat. It is being worked on now, along with the design of a new
pipeline. The latest estimates for completion times is about 10 years -
long after the tenure hoped for by the candidates hoping to apply
“muscle” to revise NAFTA.

It may be too simplistic for certain fear-mongering pundits to
appreciate one rule: The U.S. is Canada’s largest customer. Until this year,
Canada was the largest customer of the United States – now China has
surpassed Canada’s position. Does anyone seriously think Canada wishes
to jetison its largest marketplace? That is not only very improbable,
but the U.S. will have at least a decade worth of notice.

As Mentioned in our conversation, Ambassador Wilson reports in the
Government of Canada’s lobbying effort to exclude oil sands production from
the US market, inadvertently, in a new “green” Bill going to Congress,
Canada now exports to American 2.3 million barrels of oil per day.
Not only does that surpass Saudi product sold in the U.S., but the
statistics cited by Wilson were contained in a letter after the Democratic
position on NAFTA was expressed. If anything, the direction of planning
guessed at is going the other way, in reality.. From the
American point of view, I understand NAFTA is responsible for $388 Billion
worth of export revenue from the U.S. Can the Democratic candidates be
so ignorant as to strike a strategy for implementation without input
from some level of expertise?

In a burst of Saturday Morning Creativity

Given the psychotic cult like worship of his supporters I doubt it will make a difference.  I also doubt the media will give this any play.  We will see more of this if Obama continues talking out both sides of his mouth.
Story.
Obama in his debate w…

Sen. Barack Obama has a problem. Like his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama has promised to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement after six months if it isn’t renegotiated to his liking should he be elected president. Th…

If it wasn’t for that blue dress, the Clinton legacy would have slid by with the help of the press.

Splunge on February 29, 2008 at 3:06 PM

Thank you. You just helped to make my point, by not even once in your long “rebutal” even mentioning Juan’s name.

philwynk on February 29, 2008 at 6:45 PM

Please do look into it. Google: Obama, Morris, Odinga. Enquiring minds want to know. This could be the next leader of the free world here, folks, if it’s crap, then I want to KNOW it’s crap, and if it’s true, then EVERYONE should know!

A must read for sure:

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/31/obamas-african-hubris-2/

how come nobody is picking this up??

Be Reasonable on February 29, 2008 at 3:01 PM

Nobody’s covering Kenya because nobody cares about Kenya. It’s not an al Qaeda hideout, it’s not an oil-producing country, it’s basically not anything to Americans.

I’ve covered Obama’s radical background (and will continue to do so) so a relative in the hard-core Marxist camp is not surprising. I’ll look into this Kenya story, too, and will probably blog about it in a couple of days.

Yesterday Canadian TV reported that while Obama was blasting NAFTA in front of Ohio audiences, a senior member of his campaign called the Candian Ambassador and assured him that it was just campaign rhetoric, and not to pay attention to it. Today, CTV …