Emerson Dismisses U.S. Campaign Talk Of NAFTA Change

<blockquote> "I do not see a reason to revisit NAFTA," Emerson said </blockquote>Well, he would, wouldn't he? However, the essential fact of the matter is, while Canada can exist for a short time, selling off its resources to pay for baubles (hewers of wood, carriers of water - revisited), the US no longer has a similar luxury. And considering that it is entering a post-manufacturing period of history, it will rapidly run out of the cash it needs to buy what it so readily is sending off to China to manufacture.<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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Given Emerson's appalling performance on softwood lumber you would thing he might be open to redeeming himself on NAFTA. Obama's suggestions are actually quite progessive sounding; but then that is not what Emerson is about.


"Obama has promised that one of the first things he would do as president would be to call the leaders of Canada and Mexico to ask to put stronger labor and environmental provisions into the pact, as well as to change investment provisions that critics say favor corporate interests too much."



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Robert Billyard