Clinton adviser grilled at Canadian border
Published: March 28, 2008 at 8:03 AM
OTTAWA, March 28 (UPI) -- A senior adviser to former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his presidential hopeful wife said he was detained and questioned at the Canadian border.
Economist Gene Sperling was reportedly en route to Ottawa Thursday to make a speech, and said he was taken aside and interrogated about who he was, what he was going to say and what group he was addressing, the Toronto Star reported. He said it was the most intensive questioning he has ever had entering Canada or any other country he's visited.
Once allowed in, Sperling put on a diplomatic face about the incident, the Star said.
"There are a lot of people who are in a lot of jobs in the United States and Canada -- civil servants, people trying to do their jobs," he said. "People have good days and they have bad days."
Sperling is the former national economic adviser in the Clinton administration, and is also working with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
He said if Clinton is elected president, she would open the North American Free Trade Agreement for review and if unhappy with the direction it was taking, would be willing to scrap it, the newspaper said.
Economist Gene Sperling was reportedly en route to Ottawa Thursday to make a speech, and said he was taken aside and interrogated about who he was, what he was going to say and what group he was addressing, the Toronto Star reported. He said it was the most intensive questioning he has ever had entering Canada or any other country he's visited.
Once allowed in, Sperling put on a diplomatic face about the incident, the Star said.
"There are a lot of people who are in a lot of jobs in the United States and Canada -- civil servants, people trying to do their jobs," he said. "People have good days and they have bad days."
Sperling is the former national economic adviser in the Clinton administration, and is also working with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
He said if Clinton is elected president, she would open the North American Free Trade Agreement for review and if unhappy with the direction it was taking, would be willing to scrap it, the newspaper said.
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