Here is what Obama himself said:

Obama, speaking to reporters in San Antonio yesterday afternoon, said that his previous assertion that no such meeting had taken place was based on "information I had at the time."

"It turned out that the Canadian consulate in Chicago contacted my, one of my advisers, Austan Goolsbee, on their own initiative, invited him down to meet with them," Obama said. "He went down there as a courtesy, and at some point they started talking about trade and NAFTA."

Obama said that Goolsbee reiterated the position Obama has articulated on the campaign trail: that trade should be welcomed, but that NAFTA should be renegotiated to include stricter labor and environmental standards.

"This notion that Senator Clinton is peddling that somehow there's contradictions, or winks and nods, has been disputed by all the parties involved," Obama said. "Nobody reached out to the Canadians to try to reassure them of anything . . . . There's nothing more there."

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