Harper, Obama to meet in Hawaii

[CHIMO]

Source: CBC News

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a bilateral meeting Sunday at the Asia-Pacific economic conference in Hawaii.

Harper and Obama had been scheduled to sit down Sunday night with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who pulled out of the 21-nation Honolulu summit after a helicopter crash on Friday about 70 kilometres south of Mexico City killed Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora and other Mexican government officials.

"Washington has no interests in structuring a deal which will see their benefits diluted by Canada being on the same footing as U.S. exporters," said Peter Clark, a former Canadian trade negotiator.

"The reason that we could not get to the table had much more to do with U.S. demands that we commit to liberalize in a number of other areas — for example delaying the introduction of generic medicine; more intrusive protection of intellectual property rights by Canadian customs officers; foreign investment reviews and foreign ownership of telecoms providers," Clark said.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/12/apec-summit.html

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Nov 12, 2011 8:55 PM ET

[Left Coast2020]

1. I would guess another "under the radar" trade deal is coming.

Or hopefully Obama is telling Harper to give up and pull out of tar sands oil deal. The jig is up? I smell something rotten in Denmark brewing here.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. Under the radar?

We have had free trade with Canada for decades,

[Angry Dragon]

2. I do not trust my government

[Botany]

4. Meet in mid November in D.C. or Ottawa?

Hawaii sounds good to me.

Ottawa weather cold rain in the 40s

D.C. cloudy and 50

Honolulu the high will be 84 and the low will be 68

Aloha and then some.

BTW How long till Fox News makes this a scandal?

[davidthegnome]

5. Not long at all, I expect

It is my sincere wish that he is attempting to accomplish something useful.