Calls to Canada

I wonder if they'll call them again in the fall to explain how their inevitable effusive praise of NAFTA will also be just "campaign rhetoric" during the general election.

Update: Important comment below from joejoejoe I'll just add to the post:

TPM got too far in front of this story. The Michael Wilson mentioned in these claims is a conservative member of the Harper government and helped negotiate NAFTA as trade minister in the Mulroney government.

A followup from The Politico: "A spokesman for the Canadian Embassy to the United States, Tristan Landry, flatly denied the CTV report that a senior Obama aide had told the Canadian ambassador not to take seriously Obama's denunciations of Nafta.

"None of the presidential campaigns have called either the Ambassador or any of the officials here to raise Nafta," Landry said. He said there had been no conversations at all on the subject. "We didn't make any calls, they didn't call us," Landry said.

"There is no story as far as we’re concerned," he said.

The CTV story was likely Michael Wilson talking out of his ass on background to the Canadian press as perhaps one of the two or three biggest NAFTA supporters in North America, then having the whole bogus story blow up in the US press, following by an explicit denial by the Canadian Embassy.