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Obama begins process to amend NAFTA

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"As The Ticket reported back in August 2007 at a labor union forum at Chicago's Soldier Field:

Obama said upon becoming president, "I would immediately call the president of Mexico, the president of Canada, to try to amend NAFTA, because I think that we can get labor agreements in that agreement right now."

Problem is, as some Harvard graduates might know, our next-door neighbor Canada doesn't have a president. For more than 140 years now it has had a parliamentary system."

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Posted on  Monday, January 12, 2009By icmaldonado
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