GEEZ, THEY'RE ALREADY END-RUNNING THE UNICORN RIDER:

Nafta-Plus: Canada looks to Europe in anticipation of Obama protectionism. (Wall Street Journal, 10/20/08)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France signed an agreement Friday to begin negotiations for a free trade pact between Canada and the European Union. A Canada-EU study released last week outlines the joint economic benefits of such a partnership, with two-way trade estimated to increase 22.9% by 2014.

The proposed partnership goes a lot further than Nafta. In addition to allowing free trade in goods and services, it would harmonize regulations, open up the air-travel market, and boost opportunities in government-procurement. Most important, it would free the labor market so that skilled workers could move easily back and forth across the Atlantic.

You can understand why isolationist paleocons welcome the prospect of an Obama Administration--it's been thirty years since we had a president who everyone felt free to ignore.

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Posted by Orrin Judd at October 23, 2008 7:32 AM