Elizabeth May Quotes

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

NAFTA has dramatically improved our economy and that of our neighbors as well.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

Unfettered free trade has been a disaster not only for Americans but for the working people of Mexico and Canada as well.

The experience of our unions and our members with past trade agreements has led us to question critically the extravagant claims often made on their behalf. While these agreements are inevitably touted as market-opening agreements that will significantly expand U.S. export opportunities and therefore create export-related U.S. jobs

We always saw TPP as something that we want to be part of. In the beginning, we were not part of TPP, neither Canada or Mexico. So when we finally joined the negotiations, to us it was an opportunity.

I think TPP, as we knew it, is gone.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.

If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.

Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.

As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections.

A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

America has lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA, a deal signed by Bill Clinton and supported strongly by Hillary Clinton. And by the way, the single worst trade deal ever made in history anywhere.