NAFTA-Why Aren’t Our Politicians Talking?

Frances Russell

Updated: March 5, 2008 at 02:55 AM CST

Canadians and Mexicans should pressure their governments to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement — Canadians to regain control over energy and Mexicans to regain control over agricultural land.

Canadians and Mexicans and Americans should all support the NAFTA renegotiation proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The U.S. senators want to strengthen NAFTA’s labour and environmental standards. But most importantly, they want to abolish NAFTA’s nefarious Chapter 11 which allows private capital to trump democratic government.  …

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Here is why so many Mexican’s are going to the US, illegally, and coming to Canada.  Not much sense staying at home if you can’t feed yourself and your family any longer.

Quote NAFTA forced Mexico to liberalize and corporatize its agriculture. U.S. agribusiness giants like Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland effectively pushed millions of small farmers off the land into the slums of Mexico City and finally to the U.S. border.  Unquote

Who, in their right minds, would ever make a deal with this in it?   Quote: NAFTA makes Canada’s oil and gas America’s oil and gas. Unquote.

Why aren’t our elected officials at the National level doing everything they can to re-open, re-negotiate, or opt-out of this incredibly bad for Canada and Mexico trade arrangement?