The Canadian Globe and Mail reports that Ian Brodie, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff and the outed leaker of NAFTA-gate, originally told reporters that Hillary Clinton's people were also conveying to Canadian officials not to worry about tough anti-NAFTA rherotic.

"He said someone from (Hillary) Clinton's campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt... That someone called us and told us not to worry," a source who was in the room at the time told the Globe and Mail.

But the Canadian station CTV which aired the segment sparking the controversy pursued the Obama angle.

Read the rest of the story, which gives some good background on the whole mess.