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Originally Posted by Azure
Unless of course he believes it.
I don't see any other reason for him to say it.
Does it even benefit the US to shut down NAFTA? Because Canada has already threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US if they unilaterally withdraw from the agreement.
Seriously, why would you even talk about screwing over your biggest trade partner unless you were serious about it?
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He said it because he wanted to win Ohio and Hillary had already said she would renegotiate NAFTA. Excuse me for being obvious but politicians have long practiced catering to the locals and what they say in Seattle may have little to do with what they say in Miami. The problem now is that with international real time news politicians have to be more careful and Obama in his naivety leaked his real feelings about NAFTA to Canada and got caught. Hillary didn't get caught. He didn't have to do this as Harper is smart enough to know what's going on and probably does the same thing in Quebec. Harper may even have done it to bolster the Clintons although he'll deny it until he writes his bio.