President Barack Obama makes his first foreign trip as president this Thursday to Canada. NSC officials said the focus of Obama's visit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be trade, NAFTA, and economic recovery, as well as energy security and Afghanistan. At immediate "issue is a controversial so-called 'Buy American' provision requiring the use of U.S.-produced iron, steel, and other manufactured goods in public works projects funded by the $787 billion economic stimulus bill," CNN reports.
Asked in a press call for Obama's message to audiences around the world about his visit, NSC director of strategic communications Denis McDonough responded, "The president feels that the fact is, every day is an opportunity for us to send a clear message to the world and that is why the president has invested as much time as he did and effort to ensure and send a clear signal that the U.S. is leading on this economic recovery package, that he is trying to dramatically expand demand in a difficult time of the economy."
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