Word: canadas
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Until last week, anyone paying attention to the debate over a proposed trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico might have concluded that there was no debate at all. For months, opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement enjoyed no competition in their campaign to persuade Americans that NAFTA is a job-killing scheme cooked up by greedy corporate honchos and foreign lobbyists. So one-sided did the argument seem that it began to produce "a giant sucking sound," not of American jobs flowing to Mexico, as Ross Perot swears will happen under NAFTA, but of congressional support...
...Canada...
...Rashi Fein, professor of economics ofmedicine at the Medical School, while callingClinton's speech an excellent "call to arms," saysa single payer system, similar to Canada's, wouldhave been a better choice. Universal insurancewould not be paid by employers, but by abroad-based tax based on ability to pay, in aversion of Canada's much-touted health caresystem...
...Clinton's] going to say to the left that'It's my plan or nothing' and he'll say to theright 'It's my plan or Canada,'" he says. "It's amasterful stroke. The left will have to support itbecause they don't want nothing and the right willsupport it because they don't want Canada...
...program begins this month, with some twodozen people working on public service projects,according to Serve Canada co-founder Hugh Silk...