WHY CANADA LOVES NANCY PELOSI

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The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement will expand bilateral trade by lowering tariffs on a wide variety of products. Some Canadian agricultural products -- including wheat, barley and lentils -- and many manufactured goods will enter Colombia tariff-free immediately. Running in the reverse direction, Colombian producers will find a more open Canadian market and Canada's consumers will have more choice at better prices.

The agreement will also give new legal protections to investment and improved market access in services. It's what you call a win-win. But not for American exporters, who compete with Canadians in Colombia. Because Speaker Nancy Pelosi has blocked a vote in Congress on the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, American goods will automatically be more expensive than those from Canada by the amount of the existing tariff.

Her protectionist stance has helped open markets for everyone other than the United States and harming what Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper "one of South America's most historic democracies improve the human rights and security situation in their country."

[because American unions don't want the competition. Sound familiar?]

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