Layton Would Reopen NAFTA Negotiations

We have nothing to lose by halting NAFTA. Virtually ALL of the glowing promises held forth by Lyin' Brian have fallen into shreds anyway.

We must scrap NAFTA! NAFTA is nothing more than a corporate wish list. it ensures creeping privatization of health care, education, water, public works, infrastructure, energy, and on and on, as long as our various levels of government allow it, because under chapter 11 of NAFTA, we can`t reverse the trend, or nationalize. Not to mention the energy clause, whereby Canada must continue to send the same amount of oil and gas to the USA even if our own supplies are running out! This, is treason!

As one caller to Cross Country Checkup today (28 Sept) noted, Harper said in Alberta that he would restrict the export of bitumen. NAFTA agreement says that cannot be done, as the present quantity of bitumen being sent to US must be maintained.
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Perhaps Harper is stealing a plank from the NDP to renegotiate NAFTA........? (After all, he stole the phrase "ordinary Canadians")

With the collapse of the US banks threatening to drag Canada's economy down with the US there was never a better time for Jack Layton to point out the pitfalls of tying our economy too closely to the US and putting all our economic eggs in one basket. The US has a 53 trillion dollar debt and Canada was deficit free before the tories . Now NAU wants to attach Canadians to that debt. Does Jack have the huevos to bring this up in the debate? It will show how badly he wants the job.
Trudeau once said that Canada being right next door to the US is like a mouse in bed with an elephant. Now that the elephant is drowning , both the Conservatives and the Liberals are offering the mouse as floatation for the drowning elephant , in the form of North American Union and SPP. Would the mouse be wise to vote for those who are offering it as floatation to a drowning elephant?
Brent