Ontario Cities Should Fight ‘Buy American’ Policy: McGuinty

(CBC News)

Ontario’s premier rallied municipal governments Tuesday to fight U.S. protectionism alongside the federal government.

Dalton McGuinty said the premiers have agreed to keep supporting efforts made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to lobby U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration with regard to the “Buy American” provision of the U.S. government’s economic stimulus package.

“And I strongly encourage you to do the same,” he told the annual meeting of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario in Ottawa. […]

Ottawa city councillor Peter Hume, president of the AMO, said Ontario cities have already been talking to the American Conference of Mayors.

“We are encouraging our border colleagues, our border cities to talk to their mayors, to explain to them the impact that these policies would have on both of our economies,” he added. Read more here.