Premier Brad Wall takes aim at Obama policies, Keystone decision 'political'

 Brad Wall addresses delegates Monday at the PNWER annual conference.Photograph by: Greg Pender , The StarPhoenix

By Charles Hamilton, The StarPhoenix:
Premier Brad Wall has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama, saying recent American economic and energy policies are not good for Canada.
"People think in this country, perhaps they do, that the Obama administration is good for Canada," Wall told reporters Monday at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region's (PNWER) annual summit in Saskatoon. "The facts say something else."
Wall used his keynote speech at the conference as a rallying cry for improved U.S. and Canada relations, while decrying U.S. policies he believes are hurting free trade.
"When there is a recession, the sabres of protectionism start rattling and that's what we've seen stateside," Wall told reporters after the speech.
Wall's comments come weeks after an article in Foreign Affairs by Derek Burney, Canada's former ambassador to the U.S., and Fen Hampson, a foreign policy expert at Carleton University, declared the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Canada has sunk to its worst level in decades...Continue reading...