US | NAFTA Bush Boosts Battered NAFTA at Summit Trading partners meet in New Orleans By Peter Fearon Posted Apr 22, 2008 3:25 AM CDT Copied President Bush visits with students and teachers from New Orleans schools, Monday, at Louis Armstrong International Airport. The president traveled to New Orleans to attend the fourth annual North American Leaders' Summit. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni) President Bush yesterday opened a two-day economic summit in New Orleans with Mexico and Canada amid growing hostility to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is widely blamed for US job losses. Bush is using the meeting with the trillion-dollar trading partners to highlight support for NAFTA as the 14-year-pact is repeatedly roasted on the Democratic campaign trail. "We want to find ways to convince the American people that this is an arrangement that's worked for us and it's also worked for our neighbors," said a White House spokesman. "It's a win-win situation." Read These Next A former NFL Pro Bowler has died at age 36. The massive AWS failure exposed a big problem with the internet. Backlash for Trump nominee who said he has 'a Nazi streak.' A man ended up dead after trying to steal from Spirit Halloween. Report an error