| | |  Business News | June 2009 
NAFTA Members See Non-Compliance
 Karla Fajardo Castellanos - Rumbo de Mexico
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Senators from the United States, Canada and Mexico all expressed concern Thursday over the non-compliance of many of the promised advantages that have not come to reality from the NAFTA treaty, even 15 years after the signing of the pact.
In a letter to Felipe Calderón, U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and functionaries from the three countries, the Mexican National Association of Rural Producers and Vendors, asked for a serious renegotiation of the NAFTA accord.
In this respect, they said that it is a necessity to consider a new model of commerce centered on the people that must take into consideration just commerce that provides a quality of life and environmental protection to all of those affected under the accord.
"Disgracefully, NAFTA has worsened the poverty of the entire continent.
"It is clear that NAFTA is not functioning for a great majority of North American inhabitants.
"It has failed in a fundamental way. As legislators in our respective chambers, we have expressed concerns about NAFTA," the letter said.
The letter was signed foremost by Democratic Revolution Party Sens. Antonio Mejía Haro and Yeickol Polevnsky, Canadian New Democrat Member of Parliament Peter Julian, and U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.
As it stands the treaty is not functioning for many residents and is not working at all levels equally among the three member countries, Polevnsky said.
They listed the negative affects of the treaty as: the disappearance of good jobs in North America, the destruction of the Mexican rural economy, a worsened immigration crisis, and the destruction of small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico that has hit many communities throughout the region.
"The moment has arrived that Mexico, Canada and the United States work together to change this failed model of commerce."
"It is essential that legislators from all three countries work together to form a new alternative paradigm that counts for the sovereignty of each nation, the rights of rural people and labor rights." |
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