April 8, 2008 -- April 12, 2008

Private firm to investigate NAFTA flap
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
By THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Opposition MPs are demanding to know why the Harper government is allowing a private security organization to investigate ...

Secondary Sources: Greenspan Watch, No Boom, Nafta
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Leave Nafta Alone: The Washington Post reports that most economists are unhappy with the scapegoating of Nafta by politicians. “ NAFTA has been a net plus, ...

Teamsters chief covers tracks over Obama, NAFTA
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
Hoffa initially said Tuesday that Goolsbee should issue a statement about the meeting and about his position on NAFTA, which the Teamsters vehemently oppose ...

Probe into NAFTA flap handed to private firm
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Harper said last month that Kevin Lynch, the government's top civil servant, would mount an inquiry into the so-called NAFTA-gate disclosures that led to ...

Despite Growing Bad Rap, NAFTA a Net Plus, Experts Say
Washington Post - United States
"I don't think NAFTA has been good for America," she said. Many economists do not think so. It is true that the United States has lost

NAFTA becomes a convenient pinata in politics
MinnPost.com - Minneapolis,MN,USA
REUTERS/Tim ShafferWith Pennsylvania's primary looming, NAFTA-bashing is likely to continue. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to an AFL-CIO convention in ...

Teamsters' Hoffa blasts NAFTA, praises Obama
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Thomas Olson International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James Hoffa blasted NAFTA as the result of "corporate greed" that shows "total ...

Hoffa Visits NAFTA Victims at Hershey Plant in Pennsylvania
FOXBusiness - USA
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa on Wednesday said the Hershey plant move to Mexico shows how trade deals like NAFTA harm American workers. ...

Hillary's NAFTA Pretensions
FOXNews - USA
But her current attempts to lie about her record and to pretend that she always opposed free trade agreements and disagreed with Bill on NAFTA is a serious ...

Democrats shun free trade deals in bid for blue-collar votes
AFP -
Both White House hopefuls have also promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) if they become president, focusing particularly ...

Teamsters chief Hoffa faults FAA and NAFTA, lauds Obama
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Hoffa faulted the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, for sending US jobs to Mexico and overseas. In other trade breakdowns, he said tainted food ...

Democrats and trade
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
The North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) has become the symbol of bad policy. But this is looking backward rather than forward. NAFTA was enacted in ...

Froma Harrop: NAFTA has delivered cautious optimism for the ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
And there is general agreement that NAFTA's environmental watchdog – the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) – has failed to live up to its ...

Bill Clinton, in former mill town, says manufacturing can return
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
The NAFTA trade pact was adopted while Bill Clinton was in office, but Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said she wants to change it. Many have blamed NAFTA ...