Joelcool7 said:
As dictated by the agreement, the main purposes of the Canadian-United States Free Trade Agreement are as follows: "eliminate barriers to trade in goods and services between Canada and the United States;" "facilitate conditions of fair competition within the free-trade area established by the Agreement" "significantly liberalize conditions for investment within that free-trade area" "establish effective procedures for the joint administration of the Agreement and the resolution of disputes" Obama's decision to have a buy American clause which clearly states that any businesses being helped by the US Government and any Government projects must use only American made products. This clearly violates the whole fair competition, it also sets up trade barriers between Canada and the US in direct violation of the free trade agreement. Anyway you look at it, free trade is supposed to be free trade. its supposed to encourage trading partners to send products to each other and do business with each other. The US creating a protectionist policy that costs their trade partners billions and violates their agreements can't possibly be seen as a good thing. Also your right Obama doesn't make all the decisions. However this job plan is his plan, he presented it he supported it and he is the main spokesman for it. He was also the guy who presented and supported the first violation of the free trade agreement in 2009. If you honestly don't think the President is aware of what is in his own bill, then maybe he shouldn't be president.
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Does the free trade agreement specify that nontariffed Canadian imports are only limited to US government services or something? The US government is a consumer, thus they'd have the right to choose with who they go with. Whether that's a correct decision or not is another argument, but I don't exactly see how the free trade agreement is being violated.
