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“Once Upon a Time there was a Canada”

2010-01-17T15:01:07Z

“Once Upon a Time there was a

Canada”

By Daniel J Towsey

http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/TheTruthSoldiersClub/message/493

It was the most beautiful country from sea to shining sea, some 7000 thousands miles across.

The people were so proud and happy.

We were free, or so we thought.

It was 1967.

It was Canada’s Confederation year.

All was well.

Canadian pride was everywhere.

The Christian French people of Montreal , Quebec were hosting the best ever Worlds Fair.

It was known as Expo ‘67.

Expo ’67 had the most advanced technology brought in from all over the world.

The digital world had arrived in Canada.

Along with computers that would secretly alter the world as we knew it and the nations votes without anyone knowing it.

Please read this article about vote fixing. Originally published in 2001
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Corrupt Canadian Elections
(Vote Fixing)
Let it be known to all
I wrote this document entitled “Remedy for our stolen democracy” In hopes that you’ll realize that this is information which all Free Canadians need to know, to insure the protection of our democracy. This statement has previously been released to all members of our Parliament. This has been read by many people on-line at the Internet's World Wide Web, at public forums, on line news medias…and more.
Remedy for Our Stolen Democracy

Dear Citizens: Please read this.
(originally written 2001 and revised after June 30 2002)
We in Canada have a very serious problem with corruption in our voting process. It has been going on since approximately 1969.(since the use of computers) I witnessed this as a result of working on a federal election campaign.
We have a very old voting system that is extremely flawed. First, it has to be understood how a voting station (polling station) works.
Polling stations are manned by public volunteers from all represented parties. All activities and ballot counting is witnessed by them in the polling stations. When the polling station closes, the witnesses manually count all ballots for each riding. Then the results are reported by telephone to the Solicitor Generals office in Ottawa (and local campaign headquarters). At which time the solicitor general can enter any vote results he or she feels like entering, as there are no witnesses present for this process.
In Canada, there is no way to verify those results. As, all ballots are blank. The ballots are useless once the witnesses leave the polling stations. There is no way to verify the accuracy of the information that the solicitor enters in the computer bank. We have no safe guards against the corruption of vote results. Most corruption will occur in highly populated areas. Since these activities will likely not be noticed. Another thing to realize is that while the votes are being counted, no one knows what the vote count results are at the other polling stations in the riding, and in this way if the results reported on the television are wrong. None of the witnesses well be aware of it.. Realize that each riding has many polling stations. So none of the witnesses really knows what the total vote count is for the riding.. This makes it very easy to corrupt the vote count. Only the campaign headquarters knows the vote tally. And as I discovered when the fraud happens there is no remedy for it. Who would believe it.
It is to be understood that if even the smallest possibility for vote corruption exists. Then all possible safe guards should be put in place for the witnesses to eliminate it.
I suggest that we put into place a system where all ballots have a unique UPC bar code on the backside. Then each polling station would be allotted a predetermined number of ballots. The location of each and every ballot would be accounted for, through the whole voting process. The ballots would randomly and anonymously be given out to voters at each polling station. At the end of the day the used and unused ballots could be counted manually as well as with a computerized counting machine (Scanned with computer).
All activities need to be monitored by the volunteer (public) witnesses. The ballots will still need to be counted manually. In this way, all ballots will be accounted for in the whole country.
To further safe guard. Each and every volunteer will be given a printed signed copy of the results, to keep, before they leave the polling station. So that results can be collaborated in the future by the volunteers at an on line site or manually through public records. There should also be any other security safe guards put in place to ensure that the possibility for corruption never exists again.
Note; The chief reporting electoral officer should have no authority to do any certifying of vote results without public witnesses from the represented parties being present to witness all his certification activities…
Our votes need to be protected. Our democracy starts at the polling stations on the day we vote. Lets make sure it does not stop there!.
I AM A PROUD AND FREE CANADIAN…
Sincerely, Mr. Daniel J Towsey
All truth passes through three stages
First it is ridiculed
Second it is violently opposed (attacked)

Third it is accepted as self evident

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
1788-1860

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When I was nine years old I lived in the new and modern community of Bayshore in Ottawa.
It was a couple of hours away from the Federal Parliament buildings in Ottawa.

I use to ride my bicycle to the Parliament Buildings.
I parked my bicycle under the beautiful Peace tower.
I never had to put a lock on it.

In those days .
There was no security at all at the Parliament buildings.

I walked all through the wonderful and historic structure.
It filled me with much pride.
I got to learn about Canada’s wonderful and proud heritage. Our Freedoms, Justice, and Equality.

[If only I knew then what was to become of this once proud and noble place]

I wandered the Halls for hours and hours.
Day after day.
I could walk into any Member of Parliament’s offices.

No one minded.
The ministers were the kindest and most sincere people I had ever met in my life.
I then had a dream to one day return and sit behind one of those desks, I made it my life’s goal.

All that changed after my experience with the election system in Toronto in 1984.

Up till now my whole life was filled with nothing but the most horrific child abuses.

Long ago I began to write " The snowball effect" to describe it.
I have not finished it.
It is so painful to write it.
To write It, I have to relive it.

As a result of my experiences I was very keen at recognizing tyrants or decent people.

I was always a fast learner.
I learned a lot during my visits to Parliament.
I was like a sponge.
I asked questions all day.
The ministers were kindly, and intelligent.
They loved my inquisitiveness and enthusiasm.
They eagerly, enthusiastically and proudly answered all my questions.

I began to learn politics.

We had just elected a very sincere and honest new Prime Minister.
or so we thought.

A Prime Minister that was moulded in the publics eye by the media to appear as a very charismatic individual.
Known As Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

He was not what he was publicly made to appear.
He was an absolutely vicious man.
Back in Ottawa when I was in the bleachers of the Chamber in Parliament, and I watched him during question period.
I watched him every time he rose to speak.
He always violently yelled at the other ministers that did not agree with.
He was rude and vulgar.
He readily swore obscenities at anyone anytime he wanted.

I once heard him scream that.
Everyone in these chambers is going to do what I say.
And that he would not accept anyone disputing what his intentions were.
Or they would cease to be members.

To me he appeared to be nothing but a dictator.

People who knew what he was really about lobbied for years to have cameras placed in the Parliament’s Chamber.
So that the Public could witness what was happening.

Eventually, but much to late.
Cameras were put in.
But the damage had already been done by then.

After the cameras were put in everything else would be done covertly and with deception.

Since the public has no control over what the media presents to us, we have all become deceived.

Like our democracy and freedoms,
Canada’s proud heritage well soon completely disappear.

The winners as usual well continue to rewrite history and only the old people will remember what Canada was, and what has been deceptively done to it..

Thanks to the media Trudeau was able to commit the biggest fraud of all on Canadians.

The media made us all love him.
He could do no wrong in the publics eyes..

So to control us he spent and he spent and he spent us into debt for ever.

We all loved him.
He built the wonderful Trans-Canada highway system.
He vastly improved our public health system.
He gave us our bill of rights and he separated Canada from England’s control.

It appeared that our quality of life was so much better now.

Many gained a high income as a result of the flood of new money put into the system.
No one dared to say a bad thing about Trudeau.

At that time the Canadian People
owned and controlled our currency.
Known as the Canadian Dollar.

We have [soon I will be saying HAD ]our own National bank to keep it all in order.
It is called “The Bank of Canada“.

The Bank of Canada controlled the amount of money that was produced and put into circulation. This kept inflation in place and maintained our high standard of living.

The Federal Government [Trudeau] never needed to borrow money from commercial banks at interest.

After all, where do you think the Privately owned commercial banks were getting the money from that they loaned to us.

For if our Federal Government needed funds for capital projects it had the power and authority to produce it at Canada’s Mint or just enter the amount into the bank of Canada accounts.
Money does not have to actually materially exist to function. All it takes is just a number in a computer bank account.

That is why our fathers of confederation made sure that the people and not some secret private group controlled the money.
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“If the people do not control their money then they do not have a democracy.”
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That is the fraud that Trudeau committed against all Canadians.

The fraud that he committed was to borrow money from the commercial banks at interest.

Indebting us for ever to the bankers.
This also gave the bankers control over us, our economy and future.

They now had the financial means to take over our country.
This huge influx of constant money gave them the ability to scoop up all valuable money making enterprises and natural resources.

The government then started disposing of all of our public assets to pay off this huge fraudulent debt to the bankers.

We once owned and controlled all our natural resources.

We were considered the best country in the world to live in.

People from all over the world choose Canada as their number one destination to immigrate to.

We welcomed peoples from all over the world.

Canadians were a kind, generous, and simple peoples.

Canadians had a policy of sharing the wealth with all peoples of Canada.

We put into place a concept known as Federal transfer payments.
In which Federal wealth was shared with the economically poorer provinces.
This worked well and no one was deprived of anything to make it happen.
Under the North American Union‘s Deep Integration plans, we are going to cease having transfer payments.
We are going to loose all control of our natural resources.
All our civil laws are now going to change.
Our public health system well not survive either.
For we well be under the full control of the Corporate Zionist North American Union Communist Government.

As Canada well no longer have any money.
The bankers are going to have it all when they bring the new ‘Amero’ currency into circulation.

Canada is about to change for ever unless the naive people wake up to what I am telling you here.

But the take over of Canada started long ago it’s all part of the Zionists New World Order or Globalization.

They want to create a one world government.
That is not democracy,
That is insanity.

After the second world war.

The world bankers knew that to take over Canada would be expensive, and that it would take a lot of money and that they needed to control the money to do it.

Before the second world war Canada had no income tax.
So after the war they introduced a ‘temporary’ Federal Income tax.
This tax was just a means to rob and enslave the masses.
They said that it was needed to finance and pay off the Federal war Debt to the world bankers.

Up till then Canada never needed a Federal Income tax and still does not need one.
If we take back the control of our currency.
As this country is and was the wealthiest country in the world.
Our Country was and still is abundant in valuable natural resources.

They knew that the value of our natural resources was more than enough to quickly pay off the World Bankers.

Here is a question for you.
How can the government tax you without any taxes being taken from you?
It’s simple.
All the government has to do is create cash and spend it.
By doing this, they are taxing you.
Every time they put money into circulation, it devalues the money that is already in circulation.
This is what causes inflation or indirect taxation.
For money has no real value unless the public works for it.
Your labor is what actually gives real value to money.
Otherwise its just a piece of paper.

This is why there was no income tax before the second world war.
It was not necessary.

Why should we the public work hard to enrich the bankers and secret groups.

Controlling the money was not enough for these greedy Zionist corporate bankers.
They wanted it all.
They wanted the whole world.
They’ve had the intention of controlling the whole world for a very long.
We now know it as the “New World Order”
This is written into history going back thousands of years.
For proof of this, all you have to do is read.
“The Protocols of the learned Elders of Zion’

My election campaign experience

I was asked by a friend of mind to work on his federal election campaign.
He recruited me because he admired and respected my unwavering honesty and keenness.
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“I could not be corrupted and I refused to give up on my free country.”
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As a result of my experience in the election process,
I became a victim of the newly created covert secret police. Known as ‘Canadian Secret Intelligence Service” or CSIS. A secret division of the federal RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

This organization operates completely out of the publics scrutiny.
They are the untouchables.
Nothing is beyond their reach.
They are not limited by any laws.
They can and do assume any identity they choose.
Whether that be an honest one or a criminal one, A judge, a doctor, a teacher, a regular police officer, a violent house invader, or anything they want.
In that effect they can deceive anyone to achieve and protect their controllers secret agenda of a “New World Order”

Their financial resources are unlimited.

They are a secret force of the secret government.

They also recruit or influence anyone they want.

They have access to all of the governments resources, personal records and data banks.

They often recruit criminals from Police records.
I believe that the young offenders act of secrecy has served them well.

They can and do recruit many young people who have violent tendencies.
Young people are easily influenced.
Especially when they think they are functioning under national security and for the good of their government.
They really believe they are doing something honorable and redeeming.

Those that graduate from the indoctrination process often make the best members for the secret mercenaries that the secret governments of the NWO operates here and world wide.

CSIS operates under only one policy.
That is “Don’t get discovered” or you well become disposable.

It all works as a pyramid system.
Those at the bottom of the pyramid never know what is going on above them.
Unless they get promoted by invitation to the next level up.

To get promoted you have to only pay one price.
That is to give up a little more of your conscience.
By the time one reaches the top there is no conscience left.

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“Evil Prospers on Secrecy”
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Most people are honest and completely unsuspecting of this machine of deception at work around them and are easy puppets for the deceivers.

Some honest and naïve people over time have come to realize that something is very wrong with our system and choose to be silent, then they unknowingly become members and puppets of this secret society that is destroying all of humanity and our environment.
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“Only honest and truthful people are brave.
All others are just evil selfish cowards.”
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“Never judge an individuals moral fiber by their economic standing”
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Those like me who refused to be corrupted become its victims. Few survive it.

All this was confirmed by the Police themselves.
While I was working on the federal election campaign, They told me that a contract was put on me by the federal government and even described what they were going to do to me.

They had no fear of telling me, for they knew that no one would ever believe me, and if I ever attempted to tell anyone what was happening.
No one would believe me.
I would be labeled delusional or just plain crazy.
Since the government controls everything they have no difficulty in destroying anyone they want to.

The police just loved to laugh at me.
I became entertainment for them.

You are next!

They know that the first and most important thing that has to be done to any messenger of truth is to discredit them publicly and the second is to destroy their ability to earn a living.
In less civilized countries they just torture them for pleasure then they disappear.

We are surely heading there, and fast.

I was made CSIS’s first project.
They began to terrorize me, while I worked on my friends federal election campaign.
They began by listing me as Canada’s number one criminal in all Police databases across the country.
In this way I could not turn to the local police for help, as I had been secretly labeled.

CSIS then covertly went on a training mission to completely destroy my life.

Which they did.
This would take another book to tell it all.

I have been a victim of covert terror ever since.
I have had nine different attempts on my life,
I have been poisoned, drugged, assaulted, hospitalized, Falsely charged, imprisoned, and a lot more.
They destroyed and/or stole all my possessions and businesses and a lot more.

I was not allowed to keep a job.
It was so easy for them to do that.
I would watch the Police walk in and speak with any and all of my employers.
My employers would immediately terminate me.
For what ever reason employers always trusted the authorities and did their bidding.
I had no recourse.

So I was forced to seek self employment.
Every successful attempt I ever made at setting up a legal business to support myself was destroyed just as my businesses began to succeed.

Hers a partial list of my businesses;
“Dan the Handyman”
“Towsey’s Welding and Auto Repair”
“Silverspoon Trading”
“Small but Good Movers”

I even attempted to further my education in attempt to improve my life.
I once applied for and received the funding necessary to attend the local public college.
I applied for and was accepted into a small appliance repair course.
On the first day.
I government agent walked into my class and waved to the teacher.
They had a quick discussion and the government agent pointed me out to the teacher.
The teacher immediately told me that I was not allowed to get an education and threw me out.

My dream of becoming a politician was brought to an abrupt end.
From now on it would be a desperate attempt to survive.

During the campaign I discovered that our elections laws did not apply to these people.
They violated every election law and committed out right crimes against me and our country.

And now that they were secretly controlling our elections, the power of our money, and our major medias, etc. etc.

Everything was set.

All that remained is to keep the pubic dumped down and uninformed of our heritage and what a socialist democracy really is.

and
The deceptions continued.

The evil ones were very patient. For they knew that to take over our country it would have to be done cautiously slow.

All the while using the media to pacify the public, and alter the publics thinking.

In 1967

The country had absolutely no debt.

The Federal Government had no debt.

The provincial governments had no debt.

All the City governments had no debt, school boards, hospitals etc, etc.

There was no public or government debt at all.

Today there is not one government body of any kind that is not completely in debt.

As a result the quality and number of public services has gone down due to the so called “Cut Backs’

The bankers knew how to cheat us of our country and natural resources and they were doing it well.

The naïve people did not see what was being done to their once proud and free country.

We were deliberately becoming enslaved into the Bankers debt system and New World Order.

The government of Canada, or I should say the people of Canada owned its National Railways Known as Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific.

We owned our National Airline, known as Air Canada.

Our country was rich in public assets. We the public also owned many other major assets.

This country and all its bountiful natural resources once belonged to all of us.

We cherished, protected and conserved our natural resources.
We learned to responsibly manage our natural resources and wildlife with many environmental laws.

We also created some of the best social laws in the world. Canada was an example and envy of many other countries of the world.

All that has changed.

Democracy is coming to an end with the North American Union by 2010.
Look into what “DEEP INTEGRATION” is about. Just google it.

Learn how we are going to have to give up all ours laws of protection, our social safety net, our public health system. There is over 300 laws that we have to give up.

We also are going to loose all control over our natural assets.
The corporations
{which were created by the fraudulent money system]
Soon we well control us all with the North American Union Government.
That is the true face of communism.

Let’s not forget Mr. Mulroney who forced onto us, against public will the 365 pound 22,000 page NAFTA agreement.
Which sealed the take over of Canada.

We are being enslaved forever.
History well be rewritten and once the older generations dies off, No one well even know or understand what a democracy is really supposed to be.

We are now about to lose it all. After the “North American Union“ is secretly finalized and put into effect by 2010.

All well be lost.

Now you know why they brought in gun control.

Further Reading
www.scribd.com/danieltowsey

The Plan to Disappear Canada
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/06/08/DeepIntegrate/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110607
The Case for the Amero: The Institutions of a North American Monetary Union
http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/critical_issues/1999/amero/section_03.html
The 'Amero': What of sovereignty? Will Americans trade their dead presidents for Ameros?
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_455425.html
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Analysts: Dollar collapse would result in 'amero' Think deep recession likely regardless of Fed's actions
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53350
The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero' http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15017
THE AMERO vs. THE DOLLAR
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/kirby062806.html
North American Union Debut of the 'amero'
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121406.htm
'For Our Own Good, Give Canada Away' Quick sound the alarms this is NUTS. One continent, one country? The 'deep integrationists' plan one happy continent, but we must teach the little ones.
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2005/02/22/ForOurOwnGood/
Canada raising limits on pesticide residues part of an effort to harmonize Canadian pesticide rules with those of the United States
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=2fa3e7f8-9c83-4ea9-ad60- c13b548fe688&k=6929
Canada's CEO’s sell out the nation What's Behind the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America"
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=DOB20050407&articleId=197
Canada-US Relations - Defence Partnership – July 2003 They are going to hand over complete control of Canada’s military to the US..New World Order secret government
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/ft-lagasse1.htm
Deep Integration:TILMA and SPP to bring in rules to let corporations challenge Canada’s laws
www.harperindex.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=0056
Corporate Rights Deal to Make Us April Fools, The Tyee, January 24, 2007
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/01/24/TILMA/
Gordon Laxer, Left out in the cold: North American Future pact secures energy for US but not for Canada, Straight Goods, May 1, 2007
http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/cgi/page.cgi?aid=606&_id=128&zine=show
Easterners could freeze in the dark
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070528.wcoenergy28/BNStory/ specialComment/
Economic integration in North America
Remarks by David Dodge, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, Geneva Park, Ontario, 7 August 2003.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:0MbULV1uuIQJ:www.bis.org/review/r030813a.pdf+%22David+ Dodge%22+%2B+%22monetary+integration%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca.
Giving up on Canada -- and Critical Thought?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ORC110A.html
Gulp! Canada's water on the table
in talks with parched U.S., Mexico To draft 'blueprint' on economic integration.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ed8a30ad-053f-4b31-bae7- f1692dbcd156&k=36445
Bulk water exports
http://canadians.org/water/issues/policy/exports.html
Is the Annexation of Canada part of Bush's Military Agenda?
Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20050616&articleId=174
Officials Meet To Implement North American Union
Condoleeza Rice met with her Canadian and Mexican counterparts in Ottawa over
the weekend to discuss plans for a North American Union at a secretive
http://www.infowars.net/articles/february2007/260207SPP.htm
Officials Meet To Implement North American Union
Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Ottawa draws protests. Infowars.net | February 26, 2007 ...
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/nau_officials_meet_to_impliment_nau.htm
Officials Meet To Implement North American Union -
Pass it on! The massive NAU "conspiracy" like 9/11 has been hidden by the mass media
http://digg.com/politics/Officials_Meet_To_Implement_North_American_Union_Pass_it_on
Creating a North American Union?
Why are all these current and former government officials meeting with big corporate CEO’s to create a North American Community?
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/190207_creating_nau.html
Once water's a commodity, no chance to turn off the tap
http://canadians.org/media/council/2007/30-Apr-07.html
Why was North America's power elite invited to Banff?
http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/10/12/Forum/
GO TO THIS LINK TO READ HUGE COLLECTION OF ARTICLES
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/nau.html
Protocols Of Zion' Is The Illuminati Blueprint
http://www.rense.com/general40/proto.htm
The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion
http://www.rense.com/Datapages/protodata.htm
WORLD CONQUEST THROUGH WORLD JEWISH GOVERNMENT
Full text of “The Protocols of the learned elders of Zion”
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

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Speaking of the Security and Prosperity Partnership

2008-09-14T18:55:47Z

NDP MP Denise Savoie is joined by NDP MP Peter Julian and author Murray Dobbin in this public forum held at U.Vic. Julian is particularly good...

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2552309932372461399

Enjoy!

Laz

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Harper in Victoria August 4

2008-08-04T00:09:08Z

Yes, that's right. Bush's favorite poodle dog will be at the legislature at 12:00 to herald in B.C. Days.

We'll be conglomerating around 11ish. Our plan is to shower Herr Harper with our unique brand of love.

It's late notice but if you can make it down...

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NORTHWEST TRUTH CONVERGENCE 2008

2008-06-24T02:19:59Z

NORTHWEST TRUTH CONVERGENCE 2008

Whether you are interested in 9/11, the SPP and Sovereignty issues, the Illegal Wars, Bill C-51, Vaccines, DU, the Fake Money System, the NWO, First Nations issues, support C.A.P. or Ron Paul, Kucininch, McKinney, etc you are invited to join us for a fun, social event liberally sprinkled with Civil Informationing, some music, and possibly a speaker or two.

July 5th at Peace Arch Park, Noon til Dusk.

DETAILS HERE http://www.fv911truth.org/convergence2008.html

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Mel Hurtig Video-- The Truth About Canada

2008-06-05T05:41:10Z

Mel Hurtig on his book tour stopped in Victoria on May 21, 2008.

Here's what he had to say:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5777747392978382682

Enjoy,

Laz

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Triumvirate - The only North American model parliament

2008-05-30T03:00:55Z

What pisses me off is that good ol' NDP leader Jack Layton is a guess speaker this year at this event. As one of my local colleages pointed out, it's little wonder that no one (aside from Peter Julien) in the NDP are doing anything about the selling out of our country.

http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/270508Integration.htm

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Shrybman proffers his legal perspective regarding TILMA and B.C.'s Bill 32

2008-05-27T04:31:48Z

Constitutional and International Trade lawyer Stephen Shrybman comments on Bill 32, the law which implements the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement in British Columbia. Stephen is joined by Barry O'Neill, President of CUPE B.C., for a short question and answer session following his commentary.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6519828996242808803

Lazarus

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"Made in Canada"

2008-04-20T09:15:03Z

“Made in Canada”
by Daniel J Towsey
April 18, 2008

http://www.mychurch.org/blog/172704/Made-in-Canada

“The closed minded know everything but see nothing”

Before NAFTA, I could go to any retailer and I would have a really hard time to find anything that did not have a “Made in Canada” label.

The only items that had a different label were beautiful artistic items and great Japanese Electronics.

Once upon a time there was a lot of Canadian pride in our Canadian products. There was signs everywhere promoting “Buy Made in Canada” and little Canadian flags on Canadian products.

Now when I go shopping I can’t find anything “Made in Canada”

As a result of all the cheap Chinese products flooding all the new huge foreign retail store chains.

Before NAFTA we had lots of Canadian owned national retail chains. Like Woolco, Woolworths, Towers, By-way, K-Mart, Steinbergs, just to name few. All these are now gone. We only have a couple of surviving chains. Like Zellers and Canadian Tire. They only survived because they now sell Chinese goods.

I went to my local Wal-Mart recently and saw a sign that said that Wal-Mart is concerned about selling goods manufactured in Canada, to help local employment and does so when it can.

So I spoke with the store manager and asked her. What percentage of goods that were sold in the store were manufactured by Canadians. She had absolutely no idea and it had never been anything she ever concerned herself with. And she absolutely did not care.

I told her that I walked all through the store and could not find any products with made in Canada labels. I asked her if she could show me any. She could not because she had no idea what, if any products were actually made in Canada.

I then said to her that the sign on the wall was absolutely deceptive.

China is a country that has no human rights and people work for slaves wages to produce those cheap goods we now buy.

As a result our own manufacturing facilities have ceased and all the factories and equipment have been bought for nothing and shipped out to China.

I heard somewhere that the poor peasants in China have to work seven days a week everyday of the year. With no holidays or days off. If a worker gets sick, they loose their job and may loose their life.

As China has no public health care. China is a country with a huge population. Where life is very cheap and people are very disposable.
Anyone in China that dares to speak up, soon discovers that reality.

The same will soon be the case for all of us, as the NWO masters will have it all.

NAFTA is destroying our Canadian identity. The signs are everywhere.

We will pay dearly for the loss of our manufacturing. Like all corporate take overs. Where they flood the market with cheap goods and destroy our self sufficiency. The cheap goods will soon not be cheap. After we are completely dependent on cheap imported goods and can no longer make own. They will raise the prices.

Canada is a huge country with every conceivable natural resource.

So can anyone tell me why there is a food bank [where they give out free food to the starving] in every neighborhood? Even the middle class neighborhoods have food banks. Every city also now has soup kitchens, where you can get a free meal once a day.

It’s because our wealth is being stolen and given to the executives in government and corporations. As long as the government workers are taken care of, they are very willing to ignore the situation.

That is why government workers no longer respond to, or care about the publics complaints or needs.

Since NAFTA my country’s natural resources are being stolen by foreign corporate vultures. No longer is the value of our natural resources being shared with all Canadians.

It is estimated that over 60% of Canada’s employment is as a result of government spending. So we have 60% of the employed that are tax receivers and there is only about 20% that are actually true tax payers. The remaining are the many homeless, poor, sick, elderly, children, and the forgotten unemployed.

The bankers are responsible for the destruction of our country. Canada’s wealth has been diverted from the peoples government to the bankers. Please read my “Once upon a time there was a Canada” to get the whole story.

The corrupt ‘Federal Reserve Systems’ are at the heart of all the worlds problems... Please read my “The last democracy” to get the rest of the story.

The out of control corporate criminals are proving that my Grand Mother was right when she told me some 45 years ago that, “Too much of a good thing, is never good”. Will the bankers have it too good.

The huge corporations have been created as a result of the bankers being able to provide the funds because they produce money out of thin air.

It’s amazing how free money can corrupt everything. It’s a pyramid scheme. And the corruption has tricked down from the top and is now corrupting the very foundations of civilization. We have entered a new dark ages where the light of truth is extinguished.

I am afraid that without TRUTH we only get insanity, from the insanity of Monsantos tampering with genetics, to unrestrained molecular tampering. That the unrestrained out of control insane are dooming this planet.

Please read my “Are you ready for the truth” but I have to warn you. It is a very serious article and may really upset you. And please do not take the easy way out and think of attacking the messenger. Do your own research and you will eventually find out that everything I have written is backed up with the scary proof.

Only the brave seek truth, all others are just cowards.

Thanks to the digital age, The New World Order Masters are attacking individual rights and liberties from every direction at the same time.

The situation is so absolutely horrible. That every caring informed individual has to become a “Truth Soldier”.

And finally, please read my “Corrupt Canadian Elections” to learn how the digital age has made it so easy to fix vote results and completely subvert democracy and our ability to stop the NWO’s take over of our future........

Your silence of the horrible truth of their deceptions will guaranty the NWO’s success..

For they thrive on secrecy..

So do you think it just might be time to start screaming for your very life?

While you still have a breath?

But I fear that the corporate medias hold on your thoughts of reality will make our survival and individual freedoms impossible.

Also learn about the machinations of the NWO’s depopulation agenda that is will underway. From the poison fluoride to the US Patented AIDS virus..and the FDA blocking LAETRILE one of the known cures for cancer.

Is this THE END

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MY LINKS;

“A truth soldier”
http://danieltowsey.livejournal.com/11047.html
“The last democracy”
http://www.mychurch.org/blog/105969/The-Last-Democracy
“Once upon a time there was a Canada”
http://my.opera.com/danieltowsey/blog/2007/08/15/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-canada
“Are you ready for the truth?”
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/conspiraciesclub/message/291
“Corrupt Canadian Elections”
http://social.infowars.com/blog_entry.php?user=danieltowsey&blogentry_id=2822

Additional LINKS

conspiraciesclub is loaded with thousands of links to documentary videos, articles, documents, photos and more. Plus you will receive important e-mails with your free membership.
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/conspiraciesclub
Canada's CEO’s sell out the nation What's Behind the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America"
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=DOB20050407&articleId=197
Canada-US Relations - Defence Partnership – July 2003 They are going to hand over complete control of Canada’s military to the US..New World Order secret government
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/ft-lagasse1.htm
Deep Integration: TILMA and SPP to bring in rules to let corporations challenge Canada’s laws
Giving up on Canada -- and Critical Thought?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ORC110A.html
Protocols Of Zion' Is The Illuminati Blueprint
http://www.rense.com/general40/proto.htm
WORLD CONQUEST THROUGH WORLD JEWISH GOVERNMENT
Full text of “The Protocols of the learned elders of Zion”
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

VIDEOS
Fluoride Deception Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3y8uwtxrHo&feature=related
The Future of Foods
The Disturbing Truth Behind Genetic Engineering
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=8656
The world according to monsanto
This is what insanity looks like
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=314951162223259236
AIDS CURE: U.S. Patent #5676977
Dr. Boyd Graves discusses the origin of AIDS as well as the United States' patented cure, all based on official governmnet documentation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8567399552051355527&hl=en

You must see this movie
Aaron Russo’s
America From Freedom to Fascism
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

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The 'Jellybean' Anti-Security & Prosperity Partnership Rally and Forum up on Google Video

2008-04-16T17:40:18Z

Hi folks,

Here is a link to a video from the Victoria Anti-SPP Rally and Forum held on Feb 16th, 2008:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-998186050883911073

There's a lot of information here from some very good speakers.

Lazarus

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New Environics poll reveals Canadians reject SPP priorities

2008-04-16T04:43:49Z

Council of Canadians,
April 15, 2008 -

New Environics poll reveals Canadians reject SPP priorities.

Ottawa - As Stephen Harper prepares to attend the North American leaders’ summit on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in New Orleans next week, a new Environics Research poll shows that Canadians disagree with key elements of North American integration. The survey commissioned by the Council of Canadians shows considerable opposition to regulatory harmonization, energy integration and bulk water exports. It also reveals that Canadians are not sold on security cooperation with the U.S. and would overwhelmingly like to see the SPP debated publicly and voted on in Parliament.

“It’s been four years since the launch of the SPP, and while corporations have been given a seat at the negotiating table, the Canadian government has never asked the public how they feel about it,” says Maude Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians.

Highlights:

* 87% of Canadians agree that Canada should be able to set its own independent environmental, health and safety standards and regulations even if it could limit trade with the United States.

The SPP commits Canada to widespread regulatory convergence which has already resulted in Canada adopting weaker standards, most recently through consumer product legislation.

* 89% of Canadians agree that Canada needs an energy policy that protects Canadian supplies and the environment even if it means placing restrictions on exports and foreign ownership.

The SPP calls for greater energy integration and a fivefold expansion of the environmentally destructive tar sands project in Alberta.

* 88% of Canadians want a national water policy that recognizes clean drinking water as a basic human right and that also bans bulk water exports.

But at an SPP-related meeting in Calgary last year, commissioned by all three governments, the issue of bulk water exports was firmly on the table.

* Only 47% of Canadians feel that improving the Canada-U.S. trading relationship would justify harmonizing our security policies with the US and sharing personal information with American security agencies.

This means that Canadians are not sold on the very raison d’être of the SPP, yet the last Harper budget committed an additional $165 million towards security initiatives in the SPP agreement.

* 86% of Canadians feel there should be an open, public debate on the SPP, and that the agreement should be brought to Parliament for a vote.

Four years after the launch of the SPP there has been no public consultation or any parliamentary debate. “How can the government continue to push this agenda behind closed doors, when the public overwhelmingly rejects it?” asks Barlow.

The organization is calling for public consultation and parliamentary debate on the SPP and an end to all talks aimed at promoting continental integration between Canada and the United States.

Environics Research interviewed 1,007 Canadians by telephone during the period: April 7th – 10th, 2008. The margin of error for a survey of this magnitude is +/-3.1 percent, nineteen times out of twenty.

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http://www.canadians.org/media/DI/2008/15-Apr-08.html

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Michael Campbell discusses new currency on Money Talks

2008-04-15T18:20:16Z

Hi folks,

Here's a quick little video I cobbled together last night pulled from the CKNW Money Talks phone-in show on Saturday morning, April 12, 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a94yTT9XBA4

The caller, "Walter" appears to know much more than the average citizen to make such a bold assertion that "plans are well under way to issue that currency in under five years...".

Enjoy.

Lazarus

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Chertoff in Ottawa, says "fingerprints not private, can be shared by governments"

2008-04-10T01:50:49Z

April 9th, 2008,
By The Canadian Press -

OTTAWA - The American homeland security czar says Canadians shouldn't fear plans for international sharing of biometric information like fingerprints.
Michael Chertoff says fingerprints are like footprints - "They're not particularly private."

The prospect of governments swapping the fingerprints of law-abiding citizens worries privacy advocates.

But Chertoff says officials need to make sure terrorists or criminals can't evade security by exploiting differences in Canadian and American practices.

Chertoff was in Ottawa today for a meeting with Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day on border security issues.

As of June 2009, only a passport or other acceptably secure document will be accepted at the U.S. border.

Chertoff says he's confident the countries can put in place a system of secure driver's licences before the deadline.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080409/national/chertoff_biometrics

I have tried to post the following dissenting comment to the article, but keep getting a message saying "We're having problems with our servers, please try again later". Yeah sure! I wonder what would happen if i praised it?

If you have a Yahoo account, you may want to try and post something too as with key words and phrases that people can research. I don't think they allow URLs (links).

My Message:

Screw you Big Brother and your biometric I.D.s to keep us "safe" from Emmanuel Goldstein! Is this 2008 or 1984?

This is all predicated upon the False Flag Operation / PsyOp known as 9/11 to bring in SPP / NAU to merge our countries. Figure out who the real terrorists are. This is globalization for corporate interests who care nothing about our national security or our rights and freedoms. You don't have to be a rocket scientist but even some of them agree. Google: "patriots question 9/11"

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House Speech Marci Kaptur North American Union & Cintra

2008-04-05T19:22:30Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAs7XZVgKhI%20

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Video from the recent Anti-SPP meeting in Chilliwack, BC

2008-03-25T20:25:44Z

"Broken Promises", featuring Bev Collins of CAP. is an in-depth look at the first 2 years of Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Government and their part in furthering the North American Union, exposing the strong ties between PM Harper and former PM Lyin' Brian Mulroney, the strong political and business relationships that exist between many of the top business leaders in Canada and the USA. She shows the need to expose and stop the SPP/NAU agenda being put forth by both the Liberals and Conservatives, making very clear that neither party presents a valid choice for average Canadians; that both are funded and supported by the same power brokers and globalist groups. Now more than ever, a grassroots effort is required to regain power and control for the people and that CAP is the perfect vehicle for this.

Bev Collins is a former business woman from the Scientific Industry in Ottawa. She is a speaker, researcher and writer on Federal Political Issues, and has toured throughout 7 US states and our Western provinces talking about NAFTA, Quebec, and Canadians continuing loss of sovereignty to a North American Union.

You can watch it here: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7946010861379144746
1 hr 41 min 23 sec

(it's a bit rough at the beginning with some technical probs as she starts, but otherwise outstanding and very informative)

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Military Merger continues: NORTHCOM Furthers NAU Police State Agenda

2008-02-27T23:10:15Z

02-21-2008
Lee Rogers
www.roguegovernment.com

The criminals in the U.S. government are continuing the push for a militarized North American Union police state. According to an announcement on U.S. Northern Command's web site, an agreement has been signed between U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and Canada Command (CANADACOM) that allows the military from either nation to support the armed forces of the other during a civil emergency. This agreement helps to further erode the sovereignty of both nations by allowing a foreign military to support that nation's military during any type of civil emergency. Essentially, Canadian military forces would be allowed to support U.S. military forces during a declaration of martial law. This is just another step towards the formation of a North American Union martial law apparatus which USNORTHCOM unveiled with the public release of their Vision 2020 document. The Vision 2020 document outlines plans for USNORTHCOM to seek closer ties with various military institutions, government bodies and private entities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico leading up until the year 2020.

Below is the press release from Northern Command in its entirety.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency.

"This document is a unique, bilateral military plan to align our respective national military plans to respond quickly to the other nation's requests for military support of civil authorities," Renuart said. "Unity of effort during bilateral support for civil support operations such as floods, forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and effects of a terrorist attack, in order to save lives, prevent human suffering and mitigate damage to property, is of the highest importance, and we need to be able to have forces that are flexible and adaptive to support rapid decision-making in a collaborative environment."

"The signing of this plan is an important symbol of the already strong working relationship between Canada Command and U.S. Northern Command," Dumais said. "Our commands were created by our respective governments to respond to the defense and security challenges of the twenty-first century, and we both realize that these and other challenges are best met through cooperation between friends."

The plan recognizes the role of each nation's lead federal agency for emergency preparedness, which in the United States is the Department of Homeland Security and in Canada is Public Safety Canada. The plan facilitates the military-to-military support of civil authorities once government authorities have agreed on an appropriate response. U.S. Northern Command was established on Oct. 1, 2002, to anticipate and conduct homeland defense and civil support operations within the assigned area of responsibility to defend, protect, and secure the United States and its interests.

Similarly, Canada Command was established on Feb. 1, 2006, to focus on domestic operations and to offer a single point of contact for all domestic and continental defense and security partners.

The two domestic commands established strong bilateral ties well before the signing of the Civil Assistance Plan. The two commanders and their staffs meet regularly, collaborate on contingency planning and participate in related annual exercises.

If the establishment was really supportive of protecting U.S. national sovereignty why on earth would they allow USNORTHCOM to establish an agreement with Canada that allows their military to support our military during civil emergencies? This is a direct violation of each nation's sovereignty and another obvious step towards a North American Union.

Clearly, the U.S. government is ratcheting up their plans for martial law and using the phony threat of homegrown terrorism as an excuse to implement their militarized police state agenda. The threat of martial law is finally now being reported in the establishment media. The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a report on plans for martial law which covers important issues such as Bush's NSPD-51 which makes the president a dictator during a catastrophic emergency, HR 1955 which classifies thought crimes as potential terrorist acts, KBR detention centers, the Military Commission Act and more. We broke the NSPD-51 and HR 1955 stories last year and both have been major topics of conversation in the alternative media for quite sometime.

There is no question that the U.S. government is preparing for martial law domestically, but the long term goal is to establish a martial law apparatus for North America. They are merely beginning the implementation of what has been announced in the Vision 2020 document. There is little question that this deal between USNORTHCOM and CANADACOM is another step towards forming a North American Union that is ruled by a militarized police state.

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LINKS:
www.northcom.mil/News/2008/021408.html

www.roguegovernment.com/news.php

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

COMMENT:

Civil Emergencies huh ?

Like too many people finding out the truth about 9/11? Phony War on Terror? The SPP / NAU ? Or the next false flag op ??

Me thinks we have a little more to fear from the US military on Canadian soil than vice versa.

by the way, CANADACOM ? Hmmm, any relation to the propaganda machine known as canada.com owned run by CanWest Global ??

Would not surprise me. The US media has been largely militarized long ago.

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Willie Nelson Rejects Texas Toll Road / NAFTA Super Highways Proposal

2008-02-21T08:34:31Z

Willie Nelson: I'd Rather Have an Electric Chair Named After Me Than a Toll Road

Country music star explains why he rejected state of Texas' proposal

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Country music icon Willie Nelson said it would have been "one of the dumbest things" he could have ever done to accept an invitation from the state of Texas to have a toll road named after him.

"First of all I don't like toll roads and I wouldn't like for a guy to drive up on the Willie Nelson road and have to spend his last dollar getting from point A to point B and I didn't want a toll road named after me - that's ridiculous - I'd rather have an electric chair named after me," Nelson told the Alex Jones Show yesterday.

Nelson said he initially thought about the proposal but immediately rejected it after he found out the true intention of the toll road, adding, "It didn't seem right and still doesn't seem right."

Nelson's fellow music star Jimmy Vaughan has been active in speaking out against the Trans Texas Corridor and the NAFTA Superhighway and he was one of the individuals who advised Willie to reject the proposal.

"I heard from Jimmy and I heard from some other folks who said that hey this is something you want to think about because it's different from what they're telling you and when I started finding out how different it was - today people are having to pay to drive on a road that was free for them yesterday and that didn't seem right."

US citizens will be forced to adopt a de-facto national identification card and have their freedom of mobility defined by behavioral fealty to the government under proposals set to derive from NAFTA superhighway toll road systems and the implementation of the North American Union.

Similar toll systems snaking their way from the southern and northern borders cutting through major American cities will force American citizens to submit to having RFID enabled identification cards which contain an ever-increasing array of information about their personal lives.

To even be allowed to use major roads and highways, US citizens will be subject to a criminal background check and the government will have the ability to pinpoint their particular RFID signal and remotely block it from central computer mainframes - effectively abolishing freedom of mobility in America.

Nelson said it was "one of the dumbest things I could have done" to have the toll road named after him.

Click here to listen to the MP3 audio of the interview.

http://prisonplanet.com/audio/180208nelson.mp3

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/021908_toll_road.htm

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Willie Nelson: Impeach Bush, "Throw The Bastards Out" on Alex Jones Show

"If you break the law, you have to pay for it," American icon tells Alex Jones Show -

Paul J. Watson,
Prison Planet,
Monday, Feb.18th, 2008 -

American icon Willie Nelson says he supports efforts to impeach President Bush and "throw the bastards out," adding that the administration will do anything to stay in power, including staging an event to cancel the election.

In his second appearance this month, Nelson told The Alex Jones Show today that he supported Dennis Kucinich's attempt to impeach Bush, adding, "If you break the law you have to pay for it one way or another and if these guys haven't broke the law nobody has."

"The deck's been stacked and we need to figure out a way to get a new fresh deck in there in the deal and I don't know how else to do it except throw the bastards out," said Nelson. But the award winning star of stage and screen was quick to clarify that he didn't see the Democrats as any kind of viable alternative.

"We went through a couple of elections now and we didn't do anything, we thought we did but come to find out that the voting machines are crooked, everything's stacked against us, the politicians that we vote for won't stay and fight and they won't count the votes."

Nelson agreed that an elite cherry picked presidents and leaders to do their bidding against the interests of the people.

"They find them and they groom them and they put them in office and tell them exactly what to do and you give the speeches will small words and big letters and let them go," said Nelson.

"I really believe that George Bush believes he's right, he believes what he's saying and that makes it even more pathetic because to have someone that wrong think they're right and have him be the leader of our country - that's a scary thought," he added.

The star also re-iterated a warning made during his last appearance on the show, that the Bush administration could potentially stage an event to postpone or cancel the presidential election.

"It could be anything and anything will work because they have everyone scared to death, I just think there are people out there who will do anything to stay in power, anything to keep what they have, they've already proven they'll do anything to keep it," he said.

Reacting to the big response his last appearance on The Alex Jones Show generated, Nelson said "I think it would take courage not to say something, I usually say what I think and it's harder for me to shut up."

"I don't have the ability to remain quiet when all this stuff is going on all around us," he added.

Nelson clarified his previous comments about Building 7 after the news media attempted to skew his words and claim he said that no planes hit the WTC on 9/11. Nelson made it clear he was talking about WTC 7, which imploded symmetrically within seven seconds on the late afternoon of 9/11 despite the fact that it was only hit by minimal debris from the falling towers and not a commercial airliner.

"I was talking about the third building that nothing hit and yet it fell as if it was hit the same way, all three buildings fell the same way, but the third building wasn't hit by anything," said the country music star.

Nelson's contention that the twin towers were deliberately imploded received media attention after his first appearance on the radio show two weeks ago.

Click here to listen to the MP3 audio of the interview.
http://prisonplanet.com/audio/180208nelson.mp3

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New video clip on Lou Dobbs and NAFTA superhighway

2008-02-21T08:16:00Z

New video clip on Lou Dobbs and NAFTA superhighway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQ0YyepLgA

enjoy ...

Or watch and weep

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Public Forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Webcast

2008-02-20T01:55:50Z

Public Forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership from behind closed doors into the public eye

February 19, 7-9pm
at Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street - between 15th and 16th)

Don Davies - host a forum with guest speakers :

Peter Julian - MP for Burnaby-New-Westminster and NDP international - trade critic;

Murrey Dobbin - political commentator and author
Douglas Ross - SFU political science professor .

February 19, 7 - 9pm
at Heritage Hall [3102 Main Street]

Info 604-7755800,
www.libbydavies.ca

Vancouver East MP Libby Davies and Teamsters Canada director of legal resources

WEBCAST:

Live webcast of SPP forum:

Live from 6:45 pm PST

Log in NOW to register

http://media.workingtv.com/website_live.aspx?c=1

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Overview of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and Implications

2008-02-19T07:17:04Z

THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP -
An overview of its foundation, history, roots, the key players and the implications

by Don Nordin,
Presented in Vernon, BC
February 16th, 2008 -

The SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership), according to its authors and proponents, has the stated purpose of providing greater cooperation on security and economic issues and of making North America more prosperous. It is being propagandized as being concerned with trade issues only and has working bodies concerned with Manufactured Goods and Sectoral and Regional Competitiveness, E-Commerce & ICT (Information and Communication Technology), Energy, Transportation, Food & Agriculture, Environment, Financial Services, Business Facilitation, Movement of Goods, and Health, and Immigration. However, critics argue that the SPP is a "blueprint for building a European Union-style merger of the three countries of North America", creating a "North American Union” (I’ll talk more about the North American Union in a moment).

The SPP Partnership was founded in Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005 by Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada, Vincente Fox, President of Mexico, and George W. Bush, President of the United States. In the first part of a Joint Statement President Bush, President Fox, and Prime Minister Martin said, “We, the elected leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, gather in Texas to announce the establishment of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America." But the fact is that the SPP is being implemented in secrecy from the electorate of each country and has not been subject to discussion or debate by the elected representatives of each country. The work on the SPP by elected officials is plainly illegal.

From an article by Jerome Corsi of 2006, “the SPP is headed by three top cabinet level officers of each country. Representing the United States are Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Representing Mexico are Secretary of Economics, Secretary Fernando Canales, Secretary of Government, Carlos Abascal, and Secretary of External Relations, Luis Ernesto Derbéz. Representing Canada are Minister of Industry David L. Emerson, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety, Anne McLellan, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Stewart Pettigrew.

In March of 2006, at the second summit of the SPP held in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was formed. The NACC is a tri-national working group of the SPP and is composed of 30 corporate representatives from some of North America's largest companies (10 from each country). The NACC has been mandated to set priorities for the SPP and to act as a stable driver of the integration process through changes in government in all three countries.

So what does this mean? It means that even though there could be changes in government in each country, the NACC will continue its mandate to implement the SPP agenda. Political parties opposed to the SPP will simply not be allowed to gain power in the government. (We can talk more about how these parties are kept from power in the discussion period).

There’s another name for what our leaders are doing in relation to the SPP. It’s called TREASON. Treason by definition is “violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country or consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies”. (In this case the enemy is the global ruling elite and our elected government members are agents of that elite). Treason is a high crime and is generally punishable by death.

Now let’s move on to the North American Union otherwise called the NAU.

The SPP could be said to be the mechanism to implement the North American Union. In other words, the SPP is the means and the NAU is the goal. The North American Union is “a continental union of Canada, Mexico and the United States, similar in structure to the European Union, including a common currency known as the amero.”

Working undercover to implement the NAU have been the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. So you can see the NAU is not a plan originating from the people for their benefit, but from the corporate and financial sectors for their benefit.

I should spend some time here on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). It has been called the most powerful agent of United States Foreign Policy outside the State Department. Its earliest origin, in the period 1917 to 1918, stemmed from a working fellowship of about 150 distinguished scholars, called "The Inquiry”. This led to the establishment of the CFR on May 30, 1919, along with its British counterpart, the Chatham House in London. The American participants who returned from the conference became drawn to a discreet club of New York financiers and international lawyers who had organized previously in June 1918 and was headed by Elihu Root, J.P. Morgan’s lawyer; this select group called itself the Council on Foreign Relations. They joined this group and the Council was formally established in New York on July 29, 1921, with 108 founding members, including Elihu Root as a leading member and John W. Davis, the chief counsel for J. P. Morgan & Co. and former Solicitor General for President Wilson, as its founding president. Davis was later to become Democratic presidential candidate in 1924. Other members included John Foster Dulles, Herbert H. Leyman, Henry L. Stimson, Averell Harriman and others.

Incidentally, an interesting side issue relating to CFR member, Harriman. Averell Harriman was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He established W.A. Harriman & Co, a banking business. In 1927 his brother E. Roland Harriman joined the business and the name was changed to Harriman Brothers and Company. In 1931 they merged with Brown Bros. & Co. to create the highly successful Brown Bros. Harriman & Company. Notable employees included George Herbert Walker, and his son-in-law Prescott Bush, father of former U.S. president, George H.W. Bush. Harriman also had financial connections with the WW II Nazis. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City. Various Harriman business interests were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act in October and November 1942.

Harriman attended Yale where he joined the Skull and Bones Club, a satanic society and a recruitment body leading to members attaining various prominent societal positions. Skull and Bones also had as members three generations of the Bush family including George W. Bush. Also a disproportionate number of Skull and Bones members were said to enter the CIA.

So we see here the connection of the Bush family to Harriman and the Nazis. In fact, George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, helped finance the Nazi Party. Also, more importantly, we see the connection of the Banking elite to the CFR. We also see the connection of Skull and Bones with CFR members and with President George Bush. However, that was a long side issue.

Going back to the CFR…

Over time, the centre of power in the CFR shifted from the Morgan family, a U.S. banking family, to the Rockefeller family. The Rockefeller family today under David Rockefeller, is the most wealthy U.S. banking family, only second in power and wealth to the European-based banking family of the Rothschilds. David Rockefeller is part of the New World Order elite that strives for global domination.

The Rothschild family is said to be worth $100 trillion and some have even said as much as $400 trillion. It is commonly known that powerful banking families are at the top of the pyramid in terms of wealth and power and theyhave a strong influence on decisions at the highest levels and that affect every global citizen.

So now, we’ve looked at how the SPP was formed and how it is being used to institute a traitorous and unlawful merger of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. We’ve identified the players of this treasonous act. We’ve identified the Council on Foreign Relations as the likely the main implementer of the North American Union. There’s so much more to talk about, but I’ll begin to draw things to a close now.

We can look briefly at what all of this means to us and maybe you have some suggestions for what we can do about it.

In the U.S. now, we now have a true fascist government. George Bush has said numerous times in public statements that he would like to be a dictator. He has given himself, through numerous bills and executive orders, the powers of a dictator. The U.S., at the moment, is under a virtual dictatorship and under virtual, undeclared martial law.
(see http://reboot.stlimc.org/newswire2007/tour-handy-guide-us-martial-law ). The Congress and Senate have become powerless and are really accomplices in this executive coup by the Bush administration.

Change through the ballot box has been made, in my opinion, impossible. This also applies to Mexico and Canada. Our Canadian oppositional candidates might think otherwise, but in their hearts they know this is true. We have seen the inside cheating and manipulation of the primaries and the role the mainstream media has played in lying about the results and in excluding opponents of the neocons from debate or vastly cutting back their debate time. The electorate have been conditioned and brainwashed through the mass media and know little or nothing about these secret manipulations of the ruling elite. Many citizens will continue to vote for mainstream political parties such as the Liberals and Conservatives, whose leaders are handpicked by the ruling elite through the Bilderberg Club and other organizations. These controlled leaders will carry out the agenda of the ruling elite, including the implementation of the SPP and the NAU.

What we are looking at is the implementation of the NAU by around 2010. This will spell the end of Canadian sovereignty as unelected appointees from the corporate sector or allied to the corporate sector become our real government. From then on, the function of MPs in our parliament will be mainly to rubber stamp decisions made by the unelected, shadow government. We will have lost entirely our ability to control our own internal affairs through elected officials.

With NAU integration, our currencies will be merged into a common currency. This may not happen right away, but it will be inevitable. Also at some point, physical currency or fiat money will be ended and we will use electronic money out of necessity. We will be given an RFID card or we may even eventually be asked to have an I.D. chip implant. If we refuse to have the card or the chip implant, we may be criminalized or we simply may not be able to purchase goods or to even obtain employment. The alternative of bartering for necessities will probably become illegal. I remember hearing that the plan to make bartering illegal is being seriously considered to put into law.

There is also great danger of martial law being implemented. This will be directed at all those freedom loving people resisting fascist tyranny. Names of such people have been collected and are now on file. The internment camps are waiting and I have heard that they can hold up to 50 million people in the U.S. Another danger is the staging of a large, government false flag event to give the U.S. government a pretext for expanding its agenda of global imperialism. Iran is next in its gun sights.

The biggest and most unbelievable threat is the ruling elite’s desire to reduce the world’s population level by anywhere from 20% to 95%, depending on which information source you read. This is the Eugenics Plan to get rid of “useless eaters” and genetically "inferior" people, which has been talked about by various people including Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Andrew Carnegie, J.P Morgan, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Edward Henry Harriman, John Davidson Rockefeller, Winston Churchill, Prince Phillip, and many more.

Eugenics was first practiced on a large scale by the Nazi Party in Germany with the passing in 1933 of the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases in Posterity," also known as the "Sterilization Law." Eugenics has also been implemented incrementally, being used to kill and sterilize, for instance, indigenous people worldwide. Even in our medical system we have palliative care units where people have been put to die. There is also a practice becoming more common of not giving priority to old people, under a rationalization that they are unproductive citizens and require too much resources to save, while at the same time alternative, non-drug means of bringing people back to health are being suppressed by the medical establishment.

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Further information:

Bush Family Tree:
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushco/bush_crime_family.htm

The History of the House of Rothschild:
http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm

The Bilderberg Group:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Grouphttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article349.htm
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ruling_Elites/BilderbergClub.html

Skull and Bones:
http://www.skullandcrossbones.org/articles/skullandbones.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones

Council on Foreign Relations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Council_Foreign_Relations.htm

New World Order:
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/newworldindex.htm

List of Concentration Camps in U.S.:
http://www.greatdreams.com/concentration-camp-locations.htm
http://www.greatdreams.com/concentration.htm
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/us-concentration-camps1.htm

NASCO Super Highway:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15763

NASCO Propaganda Site:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/

Martial Law:
http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/
http://members.tripod.com/~Sidlinger/ml.html

Eugenics:
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay2text.html
http://www.accd.edu/sac/honors/main/papers02/Judge.htm

Population Reduction:
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/depopulation.htm

Radio Frequency ID Chips:
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/RFIDposition.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh8CGhR4Vlw&watch_response

DOWNLOAD this document for printing here: http://www.fv911truth.org/pdf/spp.pdf

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Nationwide "Jelly Bean” Protest for a Referendum on the SPP" February 16th

2008-02-14T09:38:37Z

FROM:

CANADIAN ACTION PARTY (CAP) / (PAC) PARTI ACTION CANADIENNE

P.O. Box 385-916 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V5Z1K7

Phone: 604-708-3372 Fax: 604-872-1504

Tuesday February 12th Update

Nationwide "Jelly Bean” Protest for a Referendum on the SPP" February 16th

Hello all,

Here is a list of planned protests so far together with e-mail contacts. If you are interested in attending please contact the organizers below.

The reason for using the theme Jelly Beans is two-fold. Firstly Stephen Harper used the production and sale of jelly beans in the US and Canada in order to minimize and ridicule the legitimate concerns of Canadians about the SPP. So this is just throwing his lying words back at him. Further, because it will be cold in many of the places where the protest is being held and people will be wearing gloves which makes clapping kind of ineffective - all are being encouraged to bring a clear plastic water bottle maybe half-way filled with jelly beans to be used as noisemakers (like maracas).

For more information, contact individuals listed below or check here: http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/cgi/page.cgi?_id=21

Connie Fogal, Leader of the Canadian Action Party warned Canadians of the dangers of the SPP/NAU on May 7, 2007.

"The North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign nations Canada, USA, Mexico) into one regional corporate power base, the North American Union. Unlike the creation of the European Union, there is no public political/ academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of a North American Union building up to a vote within each nation as to the wish of the people to join such a union. Instead the union is being created by stealth, is already well on its way to fruition, and is being imposed on us by our own elected representatives and government with no opposition.

The driving force is corporate. The Chief Executive Officers of the most powerful corporations operating in the three countries want this union and have been working for some time devising their strategies and goals. Their facilitators are first, unelected officials and bureaucrats who move easily between corporations and government; second, former elected officials like John Manley , former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada; third, the heads of the three nations, Martin, Bush, and Fox; and finally, the governments and the rest of the elected members who apparently just rubber stamp what is put in front of them by the unelected officials- few questions, if any asked.

The ultimate enforcement mechanism for the North American Union is a police state."

- Connie Fogal, Leader Canadian Action Party

If you are inspired to organize a protest in your city, please let us know. We will add your information and repost the list.

Toronto:
1-4 p.m. March to Queen's Park from Ontario Courts (361 University). MC - Vijay Sarma (aka BK) CKLN Radio host. Speakers include, Sydney White on the Bank of Canada, Dee Nicholson, Freedom in Canadian Healthcare, Doug Plumb, Toronto-Centre CAP candidate, Alan Mercer, Libertarian Party, Pierre Chenier, Marxist-Leninist Party, (everyone invited, not all responded) & music on arrival. Bring your signs, banners, flyers & jelly bean maracas! Dress warmly! Need 3 volunteers to hold the CAP banner. Need marshalls as well if anyone wants to volunteer please send e-mail. Info: torontosppprotest@live.ca.

Windsor:
1-4 p.m. Huron Line and College (closer to NAFTA Ambassador Bridge ). Speakers include Jim Brown, CAP candidate for Essex and Brian Masse NDP MPP and Joe Comartin NDP MP. Info: Shannon O'Brien Shanfire_99@hotmail.com or Jim Brown jim008@sympatico.ca.

Cornwall:
1-4 p.m. Meet at MP Guy Lauzon's office on Pitt. Following march to City Hall, then to Standard Freeholder to demand they start reporting the truth about the North American Union. Info: Shannon or Dwight at 551-3181 or e-mail ddugas5@cogeco.ca

Ottawa:
1-5 p.m. Parliament Hill Speakers: John Ogilvie, Green Party, Mike St-Onge, CAP candidate, other speakers tentative. Info: Mike St-Onge: cap-pac.mike@sympatico.ca or Ashlee McKenzie a_mckenzie22@hotmail.com. Organization meetings: McNabb Centre at 180, rue Percy Street . Feb 13th McNabb - 7-9pm (board room) Feb 15th McNabb - 7-8pm (board room)

Montreal:
Date: Feb 16, 2008 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Place: details to follow
Host: Concerned Citizens of Montreal et environs
Please bring signs, banner, flyers & jelly bean shakers.

For more information or to volunteer contact:

Fred Cusinato derf-man@hotmail.com

Winnipeg:
12:30-4 p.m. Gather at City Hall. March starting at 1 p.m. from City Hall to the Legislature where speeches will be held. People are encouraged to dress warm. Everybody is encouraged to bring (non-glass) bottles to be filled with jelly beans as noise makers. Somebody will be at City Hall distributing jelly beans, but people are encouraged to bring their own if they can. Other activities will be held at the University of Winnipeg in the Bullman Centre shortly afterwards, but the specific details aren't available quite yet. Details are and will continue to be posted on Facebook and on www.spptruthwinnipeg.mb.ca Info: Mike: mike.lennon@gmail.com, Jose: Joser_castellanosc@hotmail.com or Michael Welch michaelwelch121@yahoo.ca

Edmonton:
11:45-2 p.m. We will be marching from City Hall to The Legislative Assembly of Alberta at Noon. Speakers include Gordon Laxer of The Parkland Institute, representatives from The Council of Canadians and Greenpeace as well, all the major political parties are invited to speak. we will have someone cover any other issues that are not touched on. Bring signs, banners & jelly bean shakers, Make sure to dress warmly. Info: Aaron Skaley, protest.spp@gmail.com

Calgary:
1-4 p.m. City Hall/Olympic Plaza (McLeod Trail & 7th, downtown). Bring sign, banners, jelly bean shakers. Info: Al Pujo trickkustom@hotmail.com

Peace River:
(AB) Protests for a SPP Referendum
Date: Feb 16, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Place: details to follow
Host: Concerned Citizens of Peace River & area

Please bring signs, banner, flyers & jelly bean shakers. If you would like to help organize this event, Please contact:

Ed Siggelkow: edsiggel@telus.net

Kelowna:
12-5 p.m. Meet at Highway 97 & Gordon. Please bring signs, banner, flyers & jelly bean shakers. If people wish they can hand out material to cars parked at the lights. Next we will head off to City Hall, going by the Daily Courier and giving them some info on the SPP. Info: Daniel Merchant tre_merchant@hotmail.com

Vancouver:
1-4 p.m. Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson) Speakers include: Connie Fogal, Leader CAP, Libby Davies, NDP MP. Bring signs/banners & jelly bean shakers! Every political party and NGO and private citizen is invited to join.

Info: James Flack richflack@shaw.ca

Victoria:
12:30 - 5 p.m. Douglas Street (Fort to Pandora) - Starts with a picket line style walk with signs and leaflets circulating along the sidewalks. Bring signs/banners & jelly bean shakers! Every political party and NGO and private citizen is invited to join. Meeting at 1:45 at Kirk Hall of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church (650 Courtney at Douglas ). Speakers include Council of Canadians Sharon Lawrence (a.k.a. Carla Hill) pro SPP/NAU and Denise Savoie NDP MP, Jane Sterk Leader B.C.Green Party, Jeremy Arney CAP candidate, UVic students, Unions & other NGO speakers against. Discussion period follows. Info: Derek Skinner

Chilliwack:
1-5 p.m. Find out what you're not being told about the SPP. Free presentation with speakers & PowerPoint presentations. First 30 people receive free DVD: Alex Jones' Endgame. Chilliwack Best Western - Rainbow Country Inn. 4371 Industrial Way . Speakers include Bev Collins, President & Candidate, CAP Grant Baudais, CAP, & Russ Porisky, Paradigm Education Group. Info: Debbie Anderson (604)316-0969 or debbieisnow@shaw.ca

Squamish:
Protests for a Referendum of the SPP
Date: Feb 16, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Place: details to follow
Host: Concerned Citizens in West Van/Sunshine Coast/Sea To Sky.
Bring signs/banners & jelly bean shakers!

If you are interested in helping to organize and / or attending please contact: marniegreen10@gmail.com

Fredericton:
1-4 p.m. Meet at the New Brunswick Legislature buildings ( Queen Street ), following with a march to MP Andy Scott's office. Bring signs, banners & jelly bean shakers. Info: Trevor Kelly: verdammt@gmail.com

Moncton:
12 noon Protest in Victoria Park on Cameron. Walk to City Hall for speeches. Then proceed to MP Brian Murphy's office on St. George St . Bring signs, banners, video cameras, camera & jelly bean shakers! If anyone is willing to make some group snacks or has a megaphone please let me know asap. Info: Pam Bridgeo wise_moon@hotmail.com

Nova Scotia:
Protests for a Referendum on the SPP
Date: Feb 16, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
If possible make a sign to wave. Please bring signs, banner, flyers & jelly bean shakers.
Host: Concerned Citizens of Nova Scotia To help organize, please contact Lisa Carey: halifaxgirl_1@hotmail.com

Summerside:
( PEI ) Protests for a SPP Referendum!
Date: Feb 16, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Place: details to follow
Host: Concerned Citizens of Summerside & area

If possible make a sign to wave. Please bring signs, banner, flyers & jelly bean shakers.

For more information or if you would like to help organize this event please contact: Robert Gallant cazba@hotmail.com

Vernon:

Brainstorming meeting Feb 14th 3-8 p.m. The Talkin Donkey.

The Vernon SPP protest will take place on Saturday Feb.16th at 12; 00 noon at the large fountain located at highway 97 and 25th ave.

Political speakers: Huguette Allen, Green Party, Alice Brown, NDP and Darren Seymour, CAP

If possible make a sign to wave. Please bring signs, banner, flyers & jelly bean shakers. Please make copies of the following PDF document to hand out to the public at the protest. Also please email the following PDF to everyone on your contact list in North America .

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/downloads/Wake_up_Canada(REV).pdf

For further information or to volunteer, contact:

Darren Seymour 250-547-6629 Email ourworld@hughes.net

Or, Jack Elliman 250-938-4202

Thunder Bay: February 22nd evening of music and anti-SPP talk Please bring signs, banner, flyers & jelly bean shakers. (what's it all about), 481 Hodder Avenue . Info Leo: leold@hotmail.com

Nationwide Call to Action: Demand a Referendum on the SPP!
Date: Feb 16, 2008
Place: Main Street, Canada
Host: Concerned Canadian Citizens - organize in your town or city!

CALL TO ACTION

On Feb 16th 2008, in cities and towns across Canada , citizens will come together to tell OUR elected representatives that we do not want the integration of Canada with the United States and Mexico. Gather in the streets, in churches, in buildings, and let your voice be heard!

The latest attack on Canadian sovereignty is the Security and Prosperity Partnership with the U.S. and Mexico . This partnership is harmonizing all regulations, applying the lowest standards, and placing corporate profit before public safety. It calls for privatization of our national resources such as water, oil, food, trees, and people. It is bringing in low-paid migrant workers into our country, creating more unemployment and driving our standard of living down. The 2002 bi-national planning agreement between Canada and the USA, created a joint North American defense system which is accelerated by the SPP.

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! We demand that the government of Canada reverse this integration. We demand a referendum by Canadian citizens with a clear question: I do/do not want Canada to integrate with the United States and Mexico, thereby abandoning our nationhood and our sovereignty and submitting Canadians to undemocratic, unelected, bureaucratic corporate rule, which is neither accountable to nor controlled by the people.

Tell family, friends, coworkers, and strangers about the SPP. Get involved in saving our great country! Contact your local protest organizer, if there isn't someone... start organizing!

***MUST WATCH VIDEOS****
Connie Fogal's Corporate North American Union Address
http://canadianactionparty.ca/Corporate_North_American_Union_address.html

Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule

Part 1 - 10 reasons to oppose the SPP & TILMA

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sp5HOLvKn2I

For more information contact Daniel Merchant: tre_merchant@hotmail.com

Brochure: Feb_16_08.pdf (application/pdf, 90.9 K)

More Information: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sp5HOLvKn2I

Further Writings by Connie Fogal, Leader of the Canadian Action Party On the SPP/NAU

We'd Rather Be Canadian
The distinction between the political line of the Canadian Action Party VS. other political parties on the North American Union

updated on 10:51 AM, September 6, 2007

"We'd Rather Be Canadian" PAC/CAP

"Any opposition party that supports the continuation of Canada as a sovereign nation, "a true North strong and free", must join in a motion this Fall on the resumption of Parliament to end the implementation of the SPP/NAU process immediately.

The motion should demand the dissolution of the Competitiveness Council and their working groups as being unconstitutional, an overreach of the power of the executive branch of government, and an abuse of the office of the Prime Minister. If the PM refuses to do this, then the opposition, if it is honest, if it is loyal to Canada , must bring this minority government down on a motion of non-confidence.

No one can accuse Harper of "secrecy" nor "lack of transparency" on his institutionalization of corporate rulers as his right hand men and women, violating citizen right to democratic accountable government. Yet, in all these months, not one party in opposition has called for a non-confidence motion on this issue, or even tried to clip the wings of the working groups operating under the Competitiveness Council by cutting off their funding from our tax dollars." ...Connie Fogal

August 31, 2007 Message from Connie Fogal, Leader, CAP/PAC

"On the Distinction Between the Political Line of CAP vs. that of the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Québécois, the Green Party, and the Council of Canadians Respecting the Integration of North America."

NO GLOBALIZATION FROM "ABOVE" OR "BELOW." STOP THE NAU INTEGRATION NOW. DISSOLVE THE WORKING GROUPS AND THE COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL IMMEDIATELY. DON'T TALK ABOUT IT, DO IT!

Respecting the corporate world attack on Canadian nationhood and sovereignty, and the even worse insidious attack on the value of the person, deeply concerned Canadians have been exercising various significant initiatives to inform themselves and others. They call for de-integration of North America . They demand restoration and protection of sovereign, free nations. They want to save their country, to have a country, to be a country. They recognize their own power and worth as a human being.

What has been missing in our line of defence is a recognition that globalization is being promoted from "below" as well as "above". We all know who forms the "above" group. They are the corporate financial elite who believe the world is their oyster with a pearl obstructed or blocked by nationhood and sovereignty. What we have failed to identify and discuss is who or what constitutes the "below" group. It is those who believe globalization or the unification of North America is inevitable, but seek to humanize it. They are the unwitting dupes of the globalists, or the complicit cooperators.

These "below" players come from the realm of "civil society", or non governmental organizations (NGOs), and some political parties. They participated with the "above" group in Canada for the FTA and NAFTA developments. They were "at the table" and succeeded in carving out side agreements on labour and environmental standards to make NAFTA "socially sustainable". It is my understanding that both Maude Barlow for the Council of Canadians (COC) and Elizabeth May for an environmental group were active participants at the NAFTA and/or other globalization agreements like the FTAA and the WTO representing "civil society."

Laura MacDonald is a Canadian academic from Carleton University who in an article called "Civil Society and North American Integration," identified Canadian civil society "below" group players to include the Council of Canadians, environmentalists, and labour unions. MacDonald delivered her paper on "Civil Society and North American Integration" to a 2002 conference called "Toward A North American Community" (not Robert Pastor's book of the same title which came out in 2001). This conference focused on social and ideological aspects in creating a North American Union describing ways to counter the obstacles of nationalism and sovereignty.

MacDonald wrote, " ...civil society has become a driver of a different form of integration based on 'globalization from below'." She explains that civil society played an important part under NAFTA as a "social shock absorber" functioning to help people adapt to the new economic environment. She identifies an important role for civil society in establishing a North American Union. She wrote, "...civil society actors do play an important role in making integration socially sustainable ....allowing individuals and groups left out of the benefits of integration to survive and adapt...."

NAFTA was the beginning of the institutional, administrative restructuring of three nations into a North American Union. MacDonald explains that NAFTA constitutes "a new form of 'supranational constitutionalism' since it establishes norms which 'control government behaviour even though they are not part of the domestic constitution'." She writes that the labour and environmental side agreements within NAFTA created some "new supranational architecture"; that the labour side agreement, called The North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation, institutionalized monitoring of labour legislation within each country, but failed to improve labour standards of North America due to ineffective government enforcement of domestic labour laws; and that the environmental side agreement enjoys considerable support from environmental NGOs.

The leadership of the COC and some other NGO's, though not registered political parties, see NGO's as a form of representation of the people, despite the fact that they are unelected by, unaccountable to, and unrepresentative of all Canadians, just as are the members of the corporate Competitiveness Council. The value of the COC and, for example, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, lies in their excellent research and public information dissemination on national issues, and, for the COC, their capacity to muster numerous citizens in meaningful education exercise and advocacy, and for labour, in their capacity to mobilize the public to powerful dissent when the leadership has the will. Contrary to their assertions, the COC leadership does exercise political partisan practice, including efforts to control and manage public dissent.

The COC calls for discussion and debate on the SPP, and, by its influence on the opposition parties, the COC defines and limits their strategy and action to a demand for "transparency" in the SPP process. Barlow is more honest and open than the opposition parties about her support for an integrated North America driven by civil society. Listen carefully to her words. She calls for a "different model" of a North American entity than is presented in the SPP. She does not call for an outright immediate end to integration, or a resumption of an independent, sovereign, democratic, free nation. She wants an integration model that is sustainable and just. Barlow defines three prongs of power in the world: corporations (who have all the power), governments, (who no longer have any power), and civil society who are now the representatives of the people exercising the real power for the people.

She is wrong. "Civil society" or "NGO's" have an important role to play in a democracy-lobbying, researching, disseminating information. But they cannot perform a democratic form of rule over the people, by the people, of the people, for the people. They must not permit themselves to be exploited by the globalists. More importantly, citizens must not allow NGO's to usurp the role of democratic government.

Each of us must decide what kind of a social order we want for ourselves, our children, and our community. Do we want to be "masters of our own ship", "captains of our own soul", or are we willing to settle for band-aids and crumbs?

The Canadian Action Party says globalization and integration of North America are not inevitable. Nations and sovereignty matter. They are the only way to ensure all people are valued. All we need is a mass of socially-conscious citizens marching together asserting our right to be in control via our accountable representatives chosen from amongst ourselves preserving nationhood and sovereignty. With that in mind, I raise the following points for your consideration.

Many of our tawdry political leaders are now being thrust kicking and screaming by their supporters to the front line. The best of them continue to wriggle, weak and uncertain, as they face the deliberate destruction of Canada by the continentalist agenda of the North American elite. Others deceive. Those who have good intentions, who wish to be on the right path, require the vigilant, disciplined clarity of their informed supporters.

In the weeks leading up to the "three amigos" meeting in Montebello Que., Canada , in August of 2007, all mainstream opposition parties stopped denying that the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement exists, and acknowledged that a North American implementation process of some kind was ongoing.

As elected and unelected leaders of political parties and civil society move up to the bat, watch and listen for key words both written and spoken that reveal an unclear, or weak, or deceitful, or harmful, still hidden agenda. Look for key words like an "unless" or "until" (jusqu'à ce que) or "a different model" or " North America " or "just and sustainable North America " which reveal a probable deception, or a direction not in sync with yours. Do not acquiesce to it if it is not what you want. Keep the pressure on your favourite leaders and politicians to perform and deliver honestly on your behalf, to fight for your right to be Canadian, and your right to be a sovereign, valuable individual citizen with guaranteed liberties. If that is what you want! Think for yourself. Analyze. Question.

All of the NDP, the Liberals, the Bloc Québécois and the Council of Canadians fail to call for an absolute cessation of the administrative integrating process of the unification of North America . They demand only a suspension of the process UNTIL there is debate and discussion on the SPP, or on a different model of integration, and a vote in Parliament . The "until" means that the NDP, and Liberals, and BQ,and the COC will facilitate the integration of Canada into a North American entity as long as they have opportunity to talk about it and have input into its shape. Their complaint is they have not been included in the process to make it "sustainable " and "just".

CAP is diametrically opposed to that direction. This period of our history slaps us with an either/or situation - sovereign nations or an administered North American feudalism. The Green Party says the SPP must be stopped. Unfortunately, what the Greens give with one hand, they take back with the other. They muddy their position (or maybe reveal it) by calling for re-negotiation of NAFTA after it is abrogated - an absurdity. Why would you resurrect a monster? NAFTA broke the ground for the supranational architecture leading to a fully integrated SPP of North America. What the Green Party position suggests is that the environmental movement backing the Greens (and Elizabeth May, based on her track record at the table in NAFTA side agreements) believe that being at a negotiating table is the best way to help Canadians to "survive and adapt" to the North American unification. Is their line "renegotiation of NAFTA" a signal for cooperation on the SPP so long as they can participate in the restructuring design or be part of the working groups to humanize them?

The Green Party differs in approach from the Canadian Action Party in their failure to see the NAFTA and side agreement model for the harm it is. NAFTA is not about Trade. It is about Continentalism. The Green Party of Canada owes it to their supporters and to all Canadians to be open and clear on this issue. We cannot stop the SPP's unification of North America without eradicating NAFTA. If the Green Party refuses to stay away from NAFTA, then they are playing mind games. Their re-negotiation talk is double speak or their design to institutionalize a North American administrative "sustainable" structure. That is not a foundation for a sovereign nation.

Dr. Jerome Corsi, in The Late Great USA, The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, 2007 notes that the March 2005 CFR task force report titled "Creating a North American Community," for the first time gave the year 2010 as a specific date for full integration for North America. CAP reported on this information in 2005. If we could get that information, so could each of the NDP, the Liberals, the BlocQuébécois. The COC had it. The NDP for months in 2007 have been referring to the working groups of the SPP. Their complaint about secrecy and lack of transparency as excuse for their failure to muster a non-confidence motion is not justifiable.

Working from material he obtained under Freedom of Information applications, Dr Jerome Corsi sets out at page 81 in his book The Late Great USA, The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, the Organizational Chart for the operation in the USA of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement. This shows the institutionalized restructured apparatus within the executive branch of the U.S. government. He has provided to me the organizational chart for the Canadian apparatus which is attached to this e-mail. I expect both the COC and the NDP have had this chart for some time as both have been referring to the numerous working groups functioning in Canada . Each of these sections functions with officials from government and industry paid by our tax dollar working together with their U.S. and Mexican counterparts integrating and harmonizing and uniting the operations of the administration of Canada, the USA, and Mexico, i.e., uniting the executive arm of the three governments.

Our Parliamentarians must do more than "ooh" and "ahh" about this. What is mandatory is to sweep out this apparatus and restore an independent Canadian civil service with sworn allegiance to all Canadian citizens and Canada as a nation.

The unanimous trumpeting by the opposition parties and the COC for debate and transparency is an unleashing of the spin doctors to get the public on side, fool them into thinking their nationhood is intact so long as someone is "talking" Canadian - never mind that it is "double speak". Any opposition party that supports the existence of Canada as a sovereign nation, "a true North strong and free", must join in a motion this fall on the resumption of Parliament to end the implementation of the SPP/NAU process immediately.

The motion should demand the dissolution of the Competitiveness Council and their working groups as being unconstitutional, an overreach of the power of the executive branch of government, and an abuse of the office of the Prime Minister. If the PM refuses to do this, then the opposition, if it is honest, if it is loyal to Canada , must bring this minority government down on a motion of non-confidence.

In early 2007, Harper published the names of the 10 Canadian corporations advising him. Not one Member of Parliament publicly acknowledged the harm of this entity or its open installation of corporate rule in Canada violating the rights of Canadians to a democratic government. No one can accuse Harper of "secrecy" nor "lack of transparency" on his institutionalization of corporate rulers as his right hand men and women, violating citizen right to democratic accountable government. Yet, in all these months, not one party in opposition has called for a non-confidence motion on this issue, or even tried to clip the wings of the working groups operating under the Competitiveness Council by cutting off their funding from our tax dollars.

If Canada is to be restored to an independent, sovereign and democratic nation, if that is what you want, then your political leaders must take back control of our rules and procedures immediately into the hands of a democratic Parliament. They must act immediately to move the control of our government out of the hands of a cabinet apparatus and a bureaucracy that have abandoned their duty to the citizens and to the public good, and they must disembowel the corporate rule.

It is in your control and power to demand that your M.P. act in your interest to protect your sovereignty as a Canadian; to demand he/she bring this government down on a motion of non-confidence; to demand that he/she clearly define the road back to independent, free nationhood. It is in your control and power to act and to vote in your own interest.

CAP's position is that there should be no debate or discussion on whether or not any flavour of treason or sedition is to be considered in our Parliament. We are not interested in discussing or measuring the details or the how’s and why’s of our death as an independent, sovereign nation. What part of NO do they not understand??

We want a distinct, autonomous, sovereign nation. WE ARE CANADIANS!
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Below are the publicly declared positions of the NDP, Liberals, Bloc Québécois, Green Party, and the COC leading up to the third NAU/SPP leaders' meeting at Montebello , Quebec , August 2007. :

NDP July 9, 2007

"Peter Julian, NDP Trade critic on July 9, 2007 advised the public that the NDP calls on the Harper government to suspend SPP implementation; and organize a full legislative review and meaningful consultations with civil society (not you and me), culminating with a full debate and a vote in Parliament.

A NDP Motion to be debated at the Standing Committee on International Trade in the Fall Session of Parliament "That the Standing Committee on International Trade report to the House of Commons urging the Government of Canada to stop further implementation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) with the United States and Mexico until there is a democratic mandate from the people of Canada, Parliamentary oversight, and consideration of its profound consequences on Canada's existence as a sovereign nation and its ability to adopt autonomous and sustainable economic, social, and environmental policies, and that the Government of Canada conduct a transparent and accountable public debate of the SPP process, involving public consultations with civil society and a full legislative review, including the work, recommendations, and reports of all SPP working groups, and a full debate and a vote in Parliament." (Fogal underlinings)

"Jack Layton, Leader NDP I can tell you that we will be organizing grassroots town hall meetings right across Canada to ensure Canadians get informed and have their say. You can help out too by forwarding this email to your friends and family to let them know more about this issue. The NDP shares the opinion that the Conservative government has no mandate at this summit to lock Canada into an agreement of continental integration that seeks to undemocratically harmonize and weaken health, safety, and environmental standards. Instead, I have called on Prime Minister Harper to take this opportunity to discuss issues that will actually strengthen the security, prosperity and quality of life for all North Americans.

Tackling climate change, closing the growing prosperity gap, respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and re-evaluating recent security initiatives are 4 key areas that should be discussed. My most recent letter to the Prime Minister on the SPP can be found at http://www.ndp.ca/page/5604."

Liberals Aug 17 2007

"Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion on Aug 17, 2007 released Strong and Free: The Liberal Blueprint for the North American Leaders Summit at Montebello , Quebec – August 2007, outlining a detailed proposal to ensure Canada 's interests are effectively promoted at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) meetings in Montebello .

...the Liberal Party is willing to use all the Parliamentary tools at its disposal to hold Mr. Harper to account, and to ensure that he explain the work of the SPP to Canadians through their representatives. Should the Prime Minister fail to level with Canadians, we will table a resolution calling on the government to inform Canadians of the work and negotiations of the SPP, and to report to the House of Commons to allow for parliamentary scrutiny and a full and informed debate when the Parliament reconvenes, concluded Mr. Dion."

Bloc Québécois, Montréal, jeudi, le 16 août 2007

"De passage dans Outremont où il est venu faire campagne avec son candidat, Jean-Paul Gilson, le chef du Bloc Québécois, Gilles Duceppe, a déploré le secret qui entoure les discussions qui doivent avoir lieu à Montebello, entre le Canada, les États-Unis et le Mexique, relativement au Partenariat nord-américain pour la sécurité et la prospérité (PSP). « Le premier ministre Harper cache à la population ce qu'il va tramer à Montebello . Les discussions sur la sécurité et la prospérité avec les présidents Georges W. Bush et Felipe Calderón se dérouleront dans le plus grand secret, compte tenu du fait que le gouvernement conservateur refuse d'informer les parlementaires des positions qu'il défendra aux différentes tables de discussions.

Cette attitude a de quoi inquiéter, car il n'y aucun moyen de savoir si les conservateurs défendront les intérêts des Québécois et des Canadiens », a déclaré Gilles Duceppe. Pour le chef du Bloc Québécois, il est clair que le Canada doit suspendre la mise en application des nouvelles mesures règlementaires découlant des discussions du PSP jusqu'à ce qu'il ait consulté les parlementaires. « D'ailleurs, le gouvernement Harper ne dispose d'aucun mandat pour agir dans le secret et procéder à des changements avec ses partenaires de l'ALÉNA », a ajouté Gilles Duceppe."

Green Party Aug 12, 2007

"Janet Eaton: Stopping the SPP is an imperative and overarching issue for The Green Party of Canada. We are at the eleventh hour in terms of the SPP which is moving rapidly towards a deeper form of continental integration by 2010... The SPP is not a treaty or an agreement like NAFTA but rather a framework for a partnership which builds on NAFTA within a broader security policy framework agreed upon by the leaders of Canada , US and Mexico in Waco , Texas in March of 2005. Within this kind of North American Community we would find ourselves harnessed to a nation which has clawed back essential laws which defy the first amendment of their Constitution and imposed police state like tactics and policies by Executive orders, and which is waging an unending war on terror begun on the basis of widely recognized false accusations. We would no longer have a voice in international trade arena, our foreign policy and military would be managed even more explicitly from Washington and any semblance of sovereignty and adherence to former so-called Canadians public policy values would be lost.

Canada will be subservient to a dominant world power which, under its present administration, has clawed back and destroyed years of progressive environmental legislation what Robert F. Kennedy Junior has called 'Crimes Against Nature.' "

The Green Party considers it urgent to increase public awareness of the SPP... The Green Party would scrap the SPP and force the re-negotiation of NAFTA, which the Canadian government can do by invoking the six month clause to rescind NAFTA. Recent reports are showing that NAFTA did not live up to its promises and even The Economist magazine recently wrote that NAFTA was oversold. Yet, the SPP builds on NAFTA as if it were an unmitigated success. The Green Party believes that trade deals must be open and democratic, reflecting a commitment to "fair trade" above "free trade."

Fair trade means that economic, social and ecological justice must not succumb to investor rights, embodied in one of the most problematic Chapters of NAFTA. The government's responsibility to protect its citizens and the environment must trump short-term economic interests.

Council of Canadians (COC)

Maude Barlow Aug 16,2007

"Where's the transparency in the 'Security' and 'Prosperity' Partnership?

Governments in all three countries have dodged political or public debate about the SPP... Our organization is not against international co-operation. We are concerned, however, about the nature of the co-operation between the executive branches of our government and the big business community established by the SPP.... ...business proponents of the deal point to the more benign aspects of regulatory harmonization, such as .... dealing with pandemics. ...Stephen Harper promised to take all major international treaties before the House but our elected officials have been left in the dark regarding the SPP. In fact, there has been no parliamentary debate about the SPP in any of the three countries. It's about time the leaders of all three NAFTA countries respect the fundamentals of democratic accountability and open the SPP up to public and parliamentary scrutiny."

Maude Barlow Aug 20, 2007 ....

"The Council of Canadians is demanding that the Harper government cease all SPP talks until the agreement is brought before parliament and the public.... (Press release)
Aug 20 COC release: More than 500 people packed an auditorium at the University of Ottawa, to hear Maude Barlow, along with civil society representatives from the U.S. and Canada, to condemn the SPP and promote a vision of a more just and sustainable North America."

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1. The Late Great USA, The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, 2007, Dr Jerome Corsi, Midpoint Trade Books, ISBN: 9780979045141, www.worldahead.com, (310) 961-4170

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Province of Manitoba admits to NAU

2008-01-28T01:12:21Z

www.youtube.com/watch

Read between the double speak. This is really happening!

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CAP Supports Nationwide Call to Action February 16, 2008

2008-01-20T04:27:53Z

Canadian Action Party (CAP) wholeheartedly supports a grassroots Nationwide Call to Action on February 16, 2008. In towns and cities all over this great nation, people will be coming together to send a clear message to our elected representatives in Ottawa - we the people demand a Referendum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).

The SPP is an agreement signed first by Paul Martin, George Bush and Vincente Fox in March 2005, and then endorsed by Stephen Harper upon his election in 2006. CAP has known the true intentions and outcomes of the SPP and has been very vocal against it since it was announced, including during the last election (it was the only party speaking out).

CAP had called for a non-confidence vote in Parliament upon its return and has now been calling for a Referendum of the People. It has a Petition, which is circulating on the internet, posted on its website since the beginning of November. To date there are approximately 5,400 signatures of Canadians who agree that this is far too important for the future of Canada to be left to an unrepresentative Parliament and must be put to a referendum.

CAP candidates, members and leader Connie Fogal were present in Ottawa and Montebello this past summer when the 3 leaders, Harper, Bush and Calderón met with corporate representatives of the North American Competitiveness Council who are driving the SPP process at the highly secured Château Montebello in Québec. More than 2,000 protestors of all stripes made their way to Montebello on August 20 to demand a stop to the SPP. CAP witnessed police state tactics used upon peaceful protestors and police posing as agents provocateurs. Truly it was a forceful suppresion of legitimate dissent and a shameful display in a country that is supposed to be a democracy.

Connie Fogal says "That the North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign nations - Canada, USA, Mexico into one regional corporate power base, through agreements like FTA, NAFTA, TILMA and now the SPP into a North American Union. However, unlike the creation of the European Union, there is no public, political or academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of a North American Union building up to a vote within each nation as to the wish of the people to join such a union. It is being imposed on us by stealth by our own elected representatives and government, and is already well on its way to fruition." The NDP is calling for a debate and vote in Parliament which will result in approval. The Manitoba NDP Provincial Government openly supports the NASCO or NAFTA Super Highway as was announced in the Throne Speech on November 20, 2007. Video

The mainstream media is complicit in this advancement and the resulting loss of sovereignty. Therefore Canadians must seek information through the alternative media in order to be informed.

If you feel as these concerned citizens do, that sovereign democractic nations matter, please get involved and get active. Help organize a protest in your town or city. As locations are announced CAP will update its calendar of events on the CAP website at www.canadianactionparty.ca and endeavour to keep our contacts and members informed as to action and organizers in their locality. This is our future and we can no longer rely on our elected representatives to do what's best for the Canadian public as they have long ago sold out to corporate interests.

Contact:
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Wendy Forrest
forrwen@gmail.com

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Manitoba Premier Gary Doer exposes NDP leader Jack Layton's campaign of mass-deception

2007-12-23T01:19:21Z

NAU-NAFTA Superhighway agenda: Manitoba Premier Gary Doer exposes NDP leader Jack Layton's campaign of mass-deception

by Bill Lavigne
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/18/02018.html

NDP Premier Gary Doer [Left] and NDP leader Jack Layton [Right] are demonstrating themselves to be politically invasive “fifth column” collaborators of a U.S. military expansionist agenda into Canada.

The federal NDP advertises on its website that it is against the Security and Prosperity Partnership North American Union (SPP-NAU) agenda. However, it appears that the NDP merely advertises such opposition to placate and deceive its activist supporters, while Mr. Layton and his political party elite colleagues substantively capitulate.

Indeed, in spite of the alleged opposition of the NDP to the SPP-NAU agenda, Manitoba's NDP Premier Gary Doer, in his government's Throne Speech 20 November 2007, endorsed the so-called "Mid Continental Corridor" North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway.

While Mr. Harper professes to stand for "integrity in government", the Stephen Harper government has officially denied the existence of any such "NAFTA Superhighway" project, in the face of ample proof that it does exist.

Rest assured, Mr. Doer as an NDP Premier, within the constitutional modus operandi of the NDP, would not have provided that SPP-related endorsement, without having consultation and agreement with Jack Layton, his federal party leader. That type of high level "executive-political" non-consultation is not how the NDP works.

Victor Fletcher, the editor of Toronto Street News, regales us with a story about NDP leader Jack Layton: "I met Jack Layton two Saturdays ago and asked him why the NDP was supporting the NAFTA highway in the NDP Manitoba Throne Speech. He said "Manitoba needs the Churchill jobs." I agreed but further asked: "Why then, do they have to issue Mexican drivers licenses for fall of 2008?" He then RAN AWAY!"

"He took off with his aide and never answered after taking a copy of Toronto Street News which a headline I pointed to saying: “Harper's Police State Union With Bush Moving Fast! Manitoba Throne Speech Announces U.S. Union!"

This is not the action of someone who is substantively against the SPP-NAU agenda. Mr. Layton as a "Quisling"-like collaborator, along with Mr. Dion and the Bloc Quebecois leader have indeed turned Opposition Party politics in Canada into facile political theatre aimed at deceiving Canadians.

The Norwegian Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling co-operated with Adolf Hitler to deliver that country to the Nazis; and these Canadians are similarly cooperating to deliver Canada to Neo-Nazi military expansionist interests. Indeed, both former German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, and the U.S. Bush administration embrace disturbingly similar pre-emptive military strike foreign policy and national security legitimated doctrines.

The NDP grassroots in particular, are being lulled into a stupor that 'Jack' is out fighting against the SPP, while his operatives like Gary Doer betray the apparent true allegiances of NDP political party elites.

Victor Fletcher also states: "Jack Layton is an old customer of mine from the late 1970's when he ran for municipal politics and I ran a union typesetting company designing election literature and arranging union printing for customers." Therefore, Mr. Fletcher provides his comments as someone who has been very supportive of Mr. Layton and the NDP.

Mr. Fletcher as elaborates that: "I was a supporter of his [Mr. Layton] over the years and he did help us with the Toronto Street News sold by the homeless. So I have known Jack for many years and he was the only politician who ever wrote a book about the homeless situation."

"I was deeply saddened when he confirmed the NDP government of Doer and their Throne Speech also confirmed the NAFTA highway was coming from Mexico to deliver exploited Mexican labour to Canada as well as Chinese goods."

The NAU-NAFTA Superhighway is an apparent scheme designed to faciliate the bringing into Manitoba (and other parts of Canada) exploited Mexican slave labour; and bringing out of Canadian resources. Map reference: LINK

Indeed, the so-called NAFTA Superhighway, is an agenda of Big Business interests, that have sought to use the secretive arrangement of the SPP-NAU created by elites, to import slave labour from Mexico and goods created from the slave labour of Communist China.

In the view of Big Business NAFTA Superhighway backers, why should corporations move to Mexico and build new factories to employ cheap Mexican labour, when you can bring cheap Mexican labour into the U.S. and Canada through a NAFTA Superhighway corridor? Imagine cheap Mexican and other exploited labour being brought to work in existing manufacturing plants into Canadian cities like Winnipeg, Vancouver, Hamilton, and Toronto, where these Mexicans (and other exploited labour) would be paid the same wage as if they were still in Mexico, Communist China, India or a "Third World" country.

An integral part of the NAU agenda is to replace existing Canadian and U.S. immigration law, with edicts that have been secretly created by Big Business interests, and that can move cheap labour, like livestock, around North America, along a elite constructed Continental Highway and Inland Port System.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership hologram logo in the shape of the North American Continent has began to appear on new driver's licenses being issued in the State of North Carolina.

The issuing of such licenses in North America is apparently being executed under the terms of the Driver's License Agreement (DLA), launched under the auspices American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA).

The National Conferences of State Legislatures in the United States documents in a report issued in March 2005 that "the new DLA was developed largely without input from state elected officials." LINK. The DLA is the institutional creature of an anti-democratic and exploitative agenda.

The DLA indeed envisions the creation of one common license across North America inclusive of Mexico, in relation to the broad SPP-NAU agenda.

Indeed, the apparent NAU agenda of the DLA defines "jurisdiction" to, “allow participation by a territory or province of Canada and by any state of the Republic of Mexico or the Federal District of Mexico.” LINK.

Under the pretext of new national security features, in defence against the "terrorists", the DLA operatives of the SPP are seeking to convince Canadians and Americans of the need to accept new licenses. However, that is an apparent mass-deception. The new licenses appear to be actually about furthering a calculated malevolent continental corporate agenda.

William Gheen, who heads the Raleigh, N.C.-based Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee, says the new license is “‘North American Union' ready.”

The online publication New Max reported on 6 September 2007 that, "The hologram is a foil-based security patch that carries design features both visible and invisible to the human eye, including a variety of codes, numbers, and 3-D and fluorescent images."

The apparent agenda of these licenses is to enable exploited Mexican labour who are issued North American licenses, to be able to freely drive into U.S. and Canadian industrial centres, as a parallel pool of cheap labour, that can be paid by employers as if they were still in Mexico. Mexicans would be presumably housed in prison like labour camps, as an industrial reserve army for the rich corporate elites that seek to replace democracy in Canada and the United States with their own "NAU continental authority".

The Industrial interests that back that NAFTA Superhighway are anti-union, and seek the NAFTA Superhighway as a means to take labour rights back to an elite idealized time during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, when workers lived in abject poverty, at the sufferance of their employers.

Indeed, the whole apparent goal of the U.S. Bush administration's interest in amnesty for illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States was not out of compassion or a conviction for human rights. Rather, the U.S. Bush administration appears to have simply sought to enable corporations to be able to more openly hire exploited Mexican workers, without union support, on wages that are below the poverty line.

NAFTA Superhighway promises masses job losses for Canadians and Americans, alongside growing urban poverty

The NAFTA Superhighway promises to create massive new layoffs of higher paid Canadian workers in Canada, and American workers in the U.S., and the overall spread of worsening urban poverty and crime, as a result of these massive lay-offs, and the influx of exploited migrant labour.

The NAFTA Superhighway agenda is being hidden away from Canadians, (as well as Americans) because less than 1% of Canadians and Americans (i.e. elite corporate shareholders and owners of capital) is expected to commercially benefit from it.

It is apparent that the NAFTA Superhighway that in turn is linked to the DLA architects "one license under one continent" mantra , that in turn is linked to the overall SPP-NAU agenda, is part of the New World Order (NWO) agenda, that seeks to "unify" the world under a neo-fascist elite. Through new licenses and other such sophisticated biometric and other such "security measures", in the name of "fighting terrorism", elites seek to rule our planet Earth via totalitarian control.

The NWO envisions a planet Earth, where people cannot rely on local democratic control to defend their human rights.

The NAFTA Superhighway or Mid-Continental Corridor in reference to Mr. Layton's comments, is not designed to provide good paying jobs to the people of Churchill, or other parts of Canada. Rather, the NAFTA Superhighway is intended to simplify continental land routes, and accordingly, ease the ability of Mexicans, and other exploited labour to be transported into Churchill, and other parts of Canada, at the will of elites, within a neo-fascistic NAU.

As Mr. Fletcher expresses: "I hadn't expected the NDP of all parties to be the ones to let the cat out of the bag for all Canadians to see, after he had previously indicated the NDP would fight the union of Canada, U.S. and Mexico."

"We all know that the CPR bought a railway south of the Great Lakes which has a spur line down to Kansas City where the NAFTA Superhighway will allow Mexican truck drivers to reach quickly," adds Mr. Fletcher

"The CNR is doing similar work on Canada's west coast reaching south into Washington State."

"Yes, I button-holed him at the Bali demonstration at Yonge and Dundas. His aide took the current issue of the paper calling Harper a traitor for lying about the NAFTA highway and NAU. But they left me standing there when I asked the question," further says Mr. Fletcher.

The NAFTA Superhighway is being built around a broader scheme to transfer Canada's control of its own resources, to U.S. and Canadian-based Big Business interests, in the context of the neo-fascistic NAU agenda.
The U.S. political-military-industrial complex

The U.S. political-military-industrial complex having depleted America's resources through greed-driven exploitation, seeks to create a NAFTA Superhighway specifically, and the NAU. in general, in order to facilitate the siphoning and depletion of our resources, here in Canada.

Canadians must either rally to cancel NAFTA that spawned the SPP-NAU agenda, or face a future in which they will have little more rights that sheep in a farm, with a quality-of-life that may not be that much better.

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Canadian Intelligent Super Corridor

2007-12-23T01:13:11Z

No, there are no plans for a "North American Super Highway", are there?

http://www.ciscorport.com/pdf/Reports/CISCOR%20Inland%20Port%20Final%20-%20Executive%20Summary%20-%20Eng.pdf

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The Security and Prosperity Partnership: Jelly Beans and Potato Soup

2007-12-23T00:57:47Z

The Security and Prosperity Partnership: Jelly Beans and Potato Soup
by Hal. C. Sisson, QC

Jelly beans are funny per se; you never find them in discussion of serious matters, but usually used in a humourous or derisive manner. Stephen Harper's spin doctors know this, which is precisely why they used jelly beans as an example when referring to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) that is more transparently described as the North American Union (NAU). Couple of years ago people said the NAU was only a ludicrous conspiracy theory never to be implemented. Not any more. The question now is are we going to be a part of it?

Prime Minister Harper intimated in his August speech in Montebello, Quebec, that the terms of the SPP agreement being discussed between Canada, the United States and Mexico was nothing more than an attempt to harmonize the policies, laws, rules, and regulations regarding trade of jelly beans throughout North America. The treaty would make them more easily accessible to the jelly-bean eaters of the continent. "Is the sovereignty of Canada going to fall apart if we standardize the jelly bean?" he asked sarcastically as he glossed over the true content of the subject matter in these traitorous treaties.. Nothing to see here folks, go on about your business. All treaties like NAFTA and SPP do is establish laws that are beyond the reach of our national government. I know best so don't worry.

That is the modus operandi of the Conservative Harper government - discuss matters of exceeding import to Canadians behind closed doors, then downplay, distract, deride and dismiss the importance of the SPP, in the hope that the electorate will overlook the real content until same is a done deal; and we become a junior partner in a North American Union.

Are Canadians going to get 'continental integration' -- the destruction of our sovereignty, access to our oil and water by the United States and Mexico, the privatization of our resources, increased foreign ownership, the right to decide our own destiny - with absolutely NO public consultation or debate on the biggest issue since Confederation? Let all that business be decided by the bankers, Wall Street and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, by executive order of Prime Minister Harper, without reference and debate by Parliament or a referendum of the people? Tom d'Aquino and the Council on Foreign Relations would certainly like that.

To answer that question and before quoting another example of the fish stories that are being pitched by Harper, Bush and their scriptwriters, let me tell you a cautionary travelling salesman tale:

Working out of the City of Saskatoon, Luke Howard Fitzhugh was a itinerant travelling clothing salesman who found himself in the small town of Climax, Saskatchewan, a little whistle stop that had only one hotel. He takes a room - #323 - and goes down to the dining room for dinner. The waiter lauds the specialty of the house, the Potato Soup. "This hotel is famous for its potato soup," he says," people come for fifty, seventy-five miles around just to have some of our potato soup."

"I don't want any potato soup, thank you," says Fitzhugh.

Another employee approaches Luke and asks, "Why not have some potato soup after your salad. It is very good. Famous actually, healthy, nutritious, and you really should have some."

"Look, I don't want any potato soup. I hate potato soup. I always have and always will, so quit bugging me about the potato soup."

As the traveler was ending his meal the chef came out of the kitchen and said, "Why not finish off the meal with a bowl of our famous potato soup?"

"I told you I don't want any of your goddamn potato soup. Now leave me alone, I don't want any." Luke rose angrily from the table and went up to room 323. The knock on Climax was that once reached same there is nought else to do for entertainment. So Luke climbed into bed for an early night's sleep.

Now there is another guy in the hotel who is in room # 223 with his wife - and in the night he gets very sick with a gastric disorder which is so bad his wife has to phone the doctor. The Doc says, "I know his condition, it is dangerous - he had better have a high colonic enema immediately. I'll send over two medics from the hospital to do it right away. What room are you in?"

In the excitement the wife gets the room numbers wrong and says," Number 323.

The medics come and go to room 323. Although salesman Fitzhugh puts up one helluva fight, they give him a high colonic enema anyway.

A week later one of his friends says to Luke that he has to go down to Climax on business. "I hear you were down there recently. Can you recommend a place to stay?"

Luke Howard Fitzhugh says, "Well, there's only one hotel in town so you have to stay there. But let me tell you this - if they ask you if you want the Potato Soup - TAKE IT - because you are going to get it one way or the other…!

Ask yourself: is that what Canada can expect regarding the SPP? Are we going to get it anyway? Misinformation about political and economic affairs and deceptions impact all of us whether we like it or not and whether we believe it or not. Are we going to get it any way the Americans want Harper to foist it upon us?

Another example of perfidy and intentional erroneous impression that has had little publicity in Canada, is as follows:

The Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba welcomed the second session of the 39th Legislative Assembly on November 20th, 2007. Reading from the Throne Speech of the Gary Doer government he said," Manitoba is also taking a major role in the development of the mid-continent corridor connecting our northern port of Churchill with trade markets throughout the central United States and Mexico… to advance the concept an alliance has been built with business leaders and state and city governments spanning the entire length of the corridor. When fully developed the trade route will incorporate an inland port in Winnipeg with pre-clearance for international shipping."

In other words he blew the whistle, he made an official definitive statement re the actuality and ratification of the SPP and the emergence of the North American Union, organized entirely by tub-thumping government committees and private enterprise slicksters, while Canadian citizens are denied information to which they are entitled. How do you like those apples, Canada? V Now contrast the above statement of the existence of the SPP and NAU in a Manitoba legislature with the final press coverage at the conclusion of the Bush/Harper/Calderone summit in Montebello, Quebec in August. The following is quoted from Info/news - 'A reporter addresses all three, reminds them that many people are showing concern about the progress of talks on the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and asks directly, "(1) Can you say that the SPP is not a prelude to a North American Union similar to the European Union and (2) are there plans to build some sort of superhighway connecting the three countries?"

All three leaders outright mocked the questions. Prime Minister Harper was the first to reply. He admitted, with a smirk, that he may have heard some of his opposition leaders speculating on massive water diversion and "some sort of super highway between the countries on the continent - maybe even an interplanetary highway - I'm not sure' he jokes derisively - and the press gang echoes his laughter.

President Bush follows in his own inimitable nit-wit style: "I'm amused by some of the speculation… I'm amused by the differences between what actually takes place in the meetings and what some are trying to say takes place… it's quite comical actually."

And with those clever sidetracking spins the two of them never come close to answering the reporter's two questions or telling us what they really 'think' and believe. Bush finishes with a smile and assures us: "The United States is a force for good." '

Is this conduct treasonous, traitorous? Not in the case of George Bush as he is only acting in the self-interest and for the greater good of the American Empire, or the New world Order, take your choice. But what to call the position being adopted by the Harper Conservative Government? With their aid the U.S. gets the elevator and the Canadians get the shaft. In a three way union our laws, policies, rules and regulations will drop to the lowest common denominator set by the United States, of whom we will become even more of a side-kick than we are now. The U.S. is the party who is fighting hardest for a prioritized list of North American standards and the subsequent removal of all differences.

Canadians - ye gods and little fishes! Start figuring out just how beyond stupid and imbecilic you are going to have to be to vote for someone who knows exactly what is going on and what is at stake, and still sells you down the Mississippi River while laughing both behind your back and right in your face.

Brian Mulroney gave us NAFTA immediately after he promised he never would do so. Would a high colonic enema not have been his better reward than the Order of Canada? The Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of slick lying salesmanship -- the ability to name something so as to create a false impression that appeals to the sheeple. If they had named it properly it would have to be called 'Who Will Work the Cheapest Agreement'. The SPP should be renamed 'the Slavery and Poverty Partnership'.

Canadians have got to get off their respective butts and stop aiding and abetting the fascist, police-state takeover of all of North America by the neoconservative Bushite administration of the United States.

Is there a moral to this tale of political skullduggery promulgated by these feather merchants? Not bloody likely unless you still believe morals still exist in politics - but - if perchance there should happen to be -- then, in this case, it is 'beware of two-faced treacherous politicians trying to sell you jelly-beans and give you potato soup enemas.

<http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/14/01996.html>http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/14/01996.html

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Demand public inquiry into covert police actions at the SPP protest in Montebello!

2007-12-08T05:41:42Z

Demand a full public inquiry into the illegal covert police actions at the SPP protest in Montebello!

Please take the time to send a few e-mails to MPs and then forward this widely and post in forums and message boards!

From: Paul Manly

Dear Friends of Democracy and Canadian Patriots

Urgent! Please circulate this email to your contact lists.

I have just posted a video on our CanadiansNanaimo channel on Youtube which proves that the three Surete Du Quebec officers masquerading as radical protesters with rocks were trying to provoke the SQ riot police with violence. This video outlines the case for a full public inquiry into this illegal covert police action. You can watch the video entitled 'Hard Evidence - Police provoke Violence at SPP Protest' here at http://youtube.com/watch?v=DCRsj06wT64 .

Please watch this video, comment on it and rate it then send the link to everyone you know that treasures our democracy and wants to keep Canada free, and sovereign.

If you want to know more about the SPP and TILMA or know of others who could use a good primer on these undemocratic processes then check out another youtube video that we have launched called 'Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule - part 1 - Ten Reasons to Oppose the SPP and TILMA' watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp5HOLvKn2I and then pass this link on to everyone you know. I am so shocked by what I have learned working on this documentary that I wanted to get this information out in advance of finishing the full length documentary I'm working on.

You can help!

Send Emails to all of the following Federal politicians and ask them if they respect the Canadian constitution and the rule of law and if they do when will they stand up and call for a full public inquiry into the illegal covert police actions at the SPP protest in Montebello. Send a copy to your Member of Parliament and your local media. If these politicians don't reply, send a copy each week until they do!

Prime Minister Stephen Harper at Harper.S@parl.gc.ca
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day at Day.S@parl.gc.ca
the members of the Public Safety committee
Chair Garry Breitkreuz - Conservative - BreitG@parl.gc.ca
Vice chairs
Hon. Roy Cullen - Liberal - CulleR@parl.gc.ca
Penny Priddy – NDP - PriddP@parl.gc.ca
Members
Hon. Sue Barnes - Liberal - BarneS@parl.gc.ca
Bonnie Brown - Liberal - BrownB@parl.gc.ca
Gord Brown - Liberal - BrownG@parl.gc.ca
Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh - Liberal - DosanU@parl.gc.ca
Dave MacKenzie - Conservative - MackeD@parl.gc.ca
Colin Mayes - Conservative - MayesC@parl.gc.ca
Serge Ménard – BQ - MenarSe@parl.gc.ca
Rick Norlock - Conservative - NorloR@parl.gc.ca
Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac – BQ - ThiLac.E@parl.gc.ca

The Opposition Leaders
Jack Layton - NDP - layton.j@parl.gc.ca
Hon. Stéphane Dion - Liberal - DionS@parl.gc.ca
Gilles Duceppe - BQ - DucepG@parl.gc.ca

To find out more about the SPP and TILMA visit www.canadians.org and www.canadiansnanaimo.org

If you would like to make a financial contribution to this documentary project please visit http://canadiansnanaimo.org/how-to-help

Yours in Solidarity

Paul Manly
paul@manlymedia.com
604 506-7651 cell
Box 1093 Stn A
Nanaimo B.C.
V9R 6E7
www.manlymedia.com

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If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, acts like a duck ......

2007-12-03T07:01:37Z

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, acts like a duck ...... it is a conspiracy theory !

Caught on video :

Province of Manitoba throne speech Nov.20, 2007 announcing a new trade corridor running
from Mexico, through the US midlands and on up Churchhill, Manitoba

Sounds like a NAFTA Super Highway to me, amigos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

The video also includes clips from Bush and Harper during the heavily guarded and secretive
SPP meetings in Montabello where they both call such talk of a super highway "conspiracy theory"

Liars and traitors all !

(thx to Richard for the heads up on this video)

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Watch Alex Jones Interview on Outside the Box

2007-11-03T16:35:50Z

I discusses a wide range of new headlines in the first hour, following by a special appearance by Alex Jones (www.infowars.com) in the second hour. We discussed his new film, End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, as well as some other issues pertaining to the NAU and the push for a global carbon tax. We also went over some of the ways that we can better care for the environment by taking a closer look at genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. I also asked Alex about his opinion on the influence of Israel in geo politics. You can watch End Game for free on google video. To get your own copy of the film, please visit www.endgamethemovie.com

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2940609159420231477&q=outside+the+box+126&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

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Harper Shows His True Colours to the Council on Foreign Relations

2007-11-03T00:19:14Z

OPEN LETTER To Prime Minister Stephen Harper
October 25, 2007
Canadian Action Party -

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:It has come to our attention that your September 25th speech to the Council on Foreign Relations included the following comment in response to a question from one Ms. Kravis:

"But you know, as I said in my remarks, I'm -- I am deeply concerned about -- you know, and I'm not pointing the finger here; I'm talking about an overall discourse as the United States is in this electoral cycle, a discourse that I see populism, protectionism and nationalism in an unhealthy sense running through it. It bothers me, it concerns me, particularly vis-a-vis Canada."

You also, in the body of your speech, said the following:

"There is a lot of worry in this country about the ideology of populism, nationalism and protectionism in the Americas and the governments that promote it, but frankly, my friends, there is nowhere in the hemisphere that those forces can do more real damage than those forces in the United States itself."

We note that Prince Bernhard, founder of the Bilderberg Group, of which you are a member, is quoted as saying:

"It is difficult to re-educate people who have been brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing some of their sovereignty to a supra-national body."

Both you and Prince Bernhard seem to share an opinion that nationalism and populism are some sort of a problem in a sovereign nation, Sir, and since both those ideals are common to patriots, by definition, it would also appear that you are saying that patriotism is a problem. And of course those who are patriotic are necessarily sovereigntist, are they not?

If, Mr. Prime Minister, you are indeed saying that patriotism is a problem, you are obviously not including yourself amongst the ranks of Canadian patriots, nor could you possibly be concerned about the sovereignty of Canada.

How is it possible for you to say in your Speech from the Throne that you will vigorously defend Canada's sovereignty, after stating to the CFR that nationalism is a problem? And if you are indeed not a nationalist, populist, sovereigntist patriot of Canada, how is it that you live at 24 Sussex Drive?

We citizens of Canada want to know, and would greatly appreciate an in-depth answer to these questions at your earliest possible convenience.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned, in addition to the readers of Toronto Street News, Canada Street News, and unnamed thousands of Canadians to whom this Open Letter has been forwarded via Facebook, private websites, email lists, etc., as well as those who view and signed the letter at the CAP website (link below)

**

Listen, watch or read what Stephen Harper had to say to the Council on Foreign Relations in September.

http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/cgi/page.cgi?aid=896&_id=128&zine=show

Send him your comments:

E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca
Fax: 613-941-6900

or write the Prime Minister’s office at:

Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2

Forward widely !

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Stop The SPP Public Forum Video

2007-10-21T22:23:24Z

On August 15, 2007 there was a "Stop The SPP" public forum held in Victoria. Speakers included Connie Fogal, Bo Filter, Denise Savoie and Bob Hansen.

Here is a video from that event:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-597658150123962324

Enjoy!

Lazarus

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MSNBC Report on US Border Incursion Oct 18 2007

2007-10-20T19:37:25Z

As we move toward a North American Union, National borders will become increasingly porous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKUJGT2xr4

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Amero Coming Within Decade

2007-10-13T21:11:53Z

By Jerome R. Corsi
October 5, 2007
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57980

Strategist expects currency changes as Canadian dollar matches greenback

BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients that the amero may be the currency of North America within the next 10 years.

"The amero would compete against other regional currency blocks," BankIntroductions.com says. "At present, with the Canadian dollar approaching par, more talk for an amero currency unit will become popular in Canada."

The company says that with the successful implementation of NAFTA, "the one dragging component for the amero will be Mexico, but in time this will change."

"Implementation of the amero currency may actually give Mexico an economic boost, thus helping to alleviate Mexican immigration pressures into the United States for those Mexicans seeking financial gain," BankIntroductions.com advises.

"The amero one day may well be circulating throughout North America."

Matt Bell, president of BankIntroductions.com, told WND in an e-mail to "feel free to quote our currency research on Canada. Our general opinion on the amero stands as stated."

As WND reported, coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet.

WND also reported the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the African Central Bank planning to create the "Gold Mandela" as a single African continental currency by 2010.

The Council on Foreign Relations also has supported regional and global currencies designed to replace nationally issued currencies.

In an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, entitled "The End of National Currency," CFR economist Benn Steil asserted the dollar is a temporary currency.

Steil concluded "countries should abandon monetary nationalism," moving to adopt regional currencies, on the road to a global "one world currency."

WND previously reported Steve Previs, a vice president at Jeffries International Ltd. in London, said the amero "is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico."

A video clip of the CNBC interview in November with Jeffries is now available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3jdQxDC7pA

WND also has reported a continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency gains momentum.

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Vicente Fox Admits Plan For Single NAFTA Currency

2007-10-11T05:57:02Z

Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/091007_fox_admits.htm
Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Former Mexican president wants North American Union based on EU

Mexico's former president, Vicente Fox, made an astounding admission last night on CNN's Larry King Live when he acknowledged the plan for a NAFTA single currency, a "euro-dollar" as King labeled it.

Fox also vowed to help unite the Americas beyond a trade agreement, following what he described as "a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA".

The comments follow Fox's appearance on The Daily Show in which he advocated the creation of a North American Union based on the model of the European Union.

Watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYGrn0hZlCQ

TRANSCRIPT FROM CNN.com.

KING: E-mail from Mrs. Gonzalez in Elizabeth, New Jersey. "Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency?"

FOX: Long term, very long term. What we propose together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all of the Americas. And everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came. He decided to isolate himself. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea...

KING: It's going to be like the euro dollar, you mean?

FOX: Well, that would be long, long term. I think the processes to go, first step into is trading agreement. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.

In a recent appearance on The Daily Show With John Stewart, Fox also expressed his desire for a North American Union based on the model of the European Union.

Watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyq4gzvAeRc

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NORTH AMERICAN UNION AND GLOBAL INTEGRATION

2007-10-08T04:29:40Z

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
October 1, 2007
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis111.htm

At an April 12, 1883 talk at the Twilight Club in New York City, former NEW YORK TIMES editorial page editor John Swinton revealed: "We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumpingjacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Almost 40 years later, New York City Mayor John Hylan delivered a speech in Chicago on March 26, 1922. He was quoted by THE NEW YORK TIMES (March 27) as revealing: "The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, State and nation. . . . At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses. . . . One of my first acts as mayor was to pitch out, bag and baggage, from the educational system of our city the Rockefeller agents and the Gary plan of education to fit the children for the mill and factory."

More recently, Douglas Valentine, author of THE PHOENIX PROGRAM (CIA torture and assassination program in Vietnam), explained on Radio Liberty on October 18, 2006: "Democracy has been hijacked from us. It's been hijacked by these very powerful industrialists for whom the CIA really works. They don't work for you. They don't work for me. They don't work for the middle class. They don't work for the lower class. They work for a very elite group of Americans who control the wealth in this country. And their job is, through whatever means possible... to preserve the privileges of this ruling one or two or three percent of the industrialists in this country. And, frankly, they do a very, very, very good job of it."

One of the members of the power elite who controls the world today is David Rockefeller, and at the September 14, 1994 Annual U.N. Ambassador's Dinner sponsored by the Business Council for the U.N., host Rudolph Giuliani introduced Rockefeller as a "citizen of the world" and "one of the formidable figures of the 20th century." Rockefeller then stated: "This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built will not be open too long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all our hopes and methods to erect an enduring structure of global cooperation."

To what "structure" Rockefeller was referring was made clearer in his MEMOIRS (2002), where he admitted being part of a "secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States . . . conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will." Specifically regarding the Americas, Rockefeller was a founding member of the Council of the Americas in 1965. And at a May 6, 1996 meeting of that organization, Thomas McLarty (counselor to President Clinton) referred to Rockefeller as his "valued mentor." This was after Rockefeller referred to McLarty as "a reliable collaborator in the effort to advance the process of hemispheric economic integration."

According to the North American Forum on Integration (NAFINA), on November 17, 1979 when Ronald Reagan officially declared his presidential candidacy, he proposed a "North American Agreement" in which "the goods and people of the three countries will cross boundaries more freely." Then as his presidency began in January 1981, he proposed a North American common market. By the last year of his presidency, Reagan was clearly "thinking globally" as on January 11, 1988, at the City Club of Cleveland, he remarked: "Even more than in the past, this new world economy is a one-world economy. . . . In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete. . . . These new economic realities dictate a world economy."

Reagan was succeeded as president by George H.W. Bush, who on April 30, 1992 issued Executive Order 12803 privatizing America's infrastructure, which would allow foreign companies to lease American toll roads, bridges, etc. However, Bush would have had difficulty getting enough Democrats to vote for NAFTA (and GATT). Therefore, the power elite chose Democrat Bill Clinton as the next president in order to push through those trade agreements, and there are now NAFTA tribunals which can actually overturn U.S. laws.

Flowing from NAFTA has been the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) emphasizing the "economic integration" of the three North American nations. And promoting this integration has been NAFINA, including Robert Pastor as one of its directors. Pastor has been the chief architect of the North American Union movement, and NAFINA's objectives include "raising awareness among future North American leaders regarding regional integration issues" and "developing their sense of a North American identity."

At NAFINA's May 20-25, 2007 Triumvirate ("the only North American model parliament") meeting, among the themes debated was the creation of a Customs Union for the 3 nations. And if you go to a NAFINA website, you can see the planned North American trade corridors (Pacific, central western, central eastern and Atlantic).

September 19-21, 2007 in Denver, there was a Great Plains International Conference on international trade corridors, at which Mexican mayor Evaristo Lenin Perez advocated moving quickly toward a European-style merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. If you look at the SPP website, in the background you will see a map of North America, and the state in which I reside (North Carolina) now has embedded a hologram of this same map on its drivers' licenses. The hologram was developed by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, whose spokesman, Jason King, told NewsWithViews.com columnist Jim Kouri that its "goal is to create a continental security device" that can be used by motor vehicle agencies throughout North America. Not long ago, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget also required American businesses to update their "North American Industry Classification Code" to replace the Standard Industry Classification code. This new industry-coding requirement was developed jointly by the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Jobs flow back and forth among the countries, as companies such as Maytag, Nokia, and Black & Decker set up factories in small towns such as Reynosa just across the Mexican border. For example, 675 Black & Decker jobs in Fayetteville, N.C., south of where I live, just went to Reynosa. In the opposite direction, Mexican laborers are flooding the U.S. By 2015, one in five people born in Mexico will be living in the U.S. as Mexican citizens. Many of these are illegal aliens, and the pressure to crack down on U.S. employers hiring them will probably result in a national I.D. issued to all foreign workers. Some organization then probably will bring a lawsuit about such inequality because an I.D. isn't required of other workers. That, in turn, will result in pressure for a national I.D. for everyone. This is how the power elite manipulates events in order to accomplish its objectives (e.g., everyone gets an I.D. number that can be tracked).

Once the U.S., Canada and Mexico have been "economically integrated," this will form the basis for a North American Union (with its own currency, the Amero). This "region" will be linked with other regions (e.g., the European Union and its Euro) around the world to form the power elite's World Socialist Government. Relevant to this process, in July 2007 the African Union summit in Accra proposed a process for federating all African nations. And currently, negotiations are underway for Economic Partnership Agreements between Eastern and Southern African nations and the European Union.

This process has euphemistically come to be known as "globalization," and is designed to undermine the middle class with the objective of creating a modern feudal society (see "Our Feudal Future"). Janet Yellen (president of San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank) in a November 6, 2006 speech titled "Economic Inequality in the United States" even acknowledged that "globalization and skill-based technological change may have been working in combination to particularly depress the wage gains of those in the middle of the U.S. wage distribution."

Relevant to this, over 3 million Americans have lost manufacturing jobs since George W. Bush became President. In addition, corporations are using H1B visas to train foreigners here, then send them home to train others so more American jobs can be outsourced. According to Phyllis Schlafly's "New Awakening About Free Trade" report (April 18, 2007): "CISCO Systems, the leading maker of communications equipment, will have 20% of its talent in India within 5 years, and global consulting giant Accenture will have more employees in India than in the U.S. by the end of this year. IBM reduced its American workforce by 31,000 while increasing its Indian staff by 52,000. CitiGroup, which already has 22,000 employees in India, plans to eliminate 26,000 jobs in the U.S. and increase its Asian workforce by another 10,000 where the pay is lower." In a WALL STREET JOURNAL article, "Job Prospects: Pain from Free Trade Spurs Second Thoughts" (March 28, 2007) by David Wessel and Bob Davis, even free trade proponent Professor Alan Blinder now acknowledges that 30-40 million American jobs could be at risk from free trade, mostly from outsourcing.

A lot of lower-skilled American jobs have already gone to Communist China, which has used its great increase in wealth to expand tremendously its military capabilities to use eventually as a blackmail weapon against the U.S. Even before this threat occurs, though, China is currently positioned to blackmail economically the U.S. It has $1.33 trillion of foreign reserves, and if it decided to liquidate those and switch to the Euro as its reserve currency, the dollar could crash, sending the U.S. into economic recession. Perhaps this possibility is why, according to a September 17, 2007 Associated Press article "Greenspan: Euro Gains As Reserve Choice," former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that "It is possible that the Euro could replace the dollar as the reserve currency of choice. . . . The European Central Bank has become a serious factor in the global economy."

This is all part of the power elite's plan for a feudal World Socialist Government in which we become their serfs. However, as a December 31, 1999, WALL STREET JOURNAL editorial stated: "The God who looked out upon the earth and pronounced it good designed us to glorify Him as free men and not as serfs."

Update: Most people remember the sign over President Bush saying "Mission Accomplished" at the beginning of the Iraq war, and they think it just applied to a military operation. However, there was more going on than most realize. In November 2000, Saddam Hussein proposed the euro as a medium of exchange for his crude oil trade, and he received UN approval for it. Thus, the U.S. had to pay in euros for the 2.5 billion barrels of oil it ordered. As Chuck Coppes (www.chuckcoppes.com) has said, "You don't think that went unnoticed at the Treasury Department?" In Ron Suskind's THE PRICE OF LOYALTY (2004), former Treausry Secretary Paul O'Neill is quoted as saying that at the first Bush cabinet meeting in January 2001, Vice-President Cheney and the neo-cons took over the conversation and discussed how they could "take out" Saddam. This was 8 months BEFORE 9/11, which was then used to attack Iraq in March 2003. Shortly thereafter, according to THE SCOTSMAN (April 19, 2003), while Iraq's National Museum was being looted on April 10, a half mile away U.S. forces had set up a protective cordon around Iraq's Ministry of Oil. The U.S. then switched Iraq's crude oil trade back to the U.S. dollar from the euro. On May 2, President Bush landed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which displayed a large banner saying "Mission Accomplished." While the military operation in Iraq is still NOT accomplished, the power elite's economic mission was "accomplished." But on September 20, 2007, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writing in the LONDON TELEGRAPH reported that "Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the U.S. Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is prepared to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East." Even if such a "stampede" does not occur now, this action by the Saudis is a warning that it could occur in the future, and all Americans would suffer severe economic hardships as a result.

© 2007 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved

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Canada preparing ports for NAFTA Superhighway

2007-09-12T23:20:34Z

September 11, 2007
By Jerome R. Corsi
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57567

Building 'free trade gateway' between Asia, North America

Canada is developing Pacific ports to compete with the U.S. ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as well as with the Mexican ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, in an attempt to draw a substantial market share of the millions of containers expected to flow into North America in the coming decades from China and the Far East.

To attract Chinese container traffic, the Canadian government has launched a major ports-rail-truck-airport transportation infrastructure designed to build its version of the emerging NAFTA Superhighway.

In October 2006, the Canadian minority government under the direction of Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper launched the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative, or APGCI, as a key component of Canada's national transportation policy.

The idea is to prepare deep-water Pacific Ocean ports on Canada's West Coast to facilitate the import of millions of multi-modal containers from China as a "free trade gateway" between Asia and North America.

WND reported Mexico plans to extend the Trans-Texas Corridor south in what government officials in Mexico are calling a "Trans North America Corridor."

According to Transport Canada, Canada's equivalent to the U.S. Department of Transportation, rail and road connections through Prince Rupert and Vancouver in British Columbia will carry the Asian containers into Canada through Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta.

From there, the planned rail-truck-passenger superhighways will head toward Winnipeg, where cross-border connections south will direct the containers from China and the Far East onto the Interstate 35 corridor in the U.S., establishing a major link in the emerging continental NAFTA Superhighway.

The plan is clearly explained in Canada's National Policy for Strategic Gateways and Trade Corridors, a policy that includes development of the Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway and Trade Corridor, as WND reported.

The National Policy for Strategic Gateways and Trade Corridors specifies the Canadian federal government has committed $1 billion to develop transportation infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative, identified as "a network of transportation infrastructure including British Columbia's Lower Mainland and Prince Rupert ports, their principal road and rail connections stretching across Western Canada and south (to) the United States, key border crossings and major Canadian airports."

Canada Transport states clearly a major purpose of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative is to increase Canada's share of North America-bound container imports from Asia.

"Canada's Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor offers world class marine, rail, road and air infrastructure closer to Asia than all its North American competitors," the Transport Canada website announces.

In January, David Emerson, minister of international trade and minister for the Pacific Gateway, led a trade delegation of Canadian transportation and logistics senior executives on a mission to Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai.

During the trip, Emerson and the Chinese minister of communications signed an updated agreement "to foster cooperation on intermodal transportation gateways to support international trade."

Transport Canada articulates how the vision of a North American economy has driven the development of Canadian national transportation policy.

"The integrated North American economy provides the 'platform' for Canada's successful global engagement," a brochure on the Transport Canada website proclaims in the process of explaining Canada's National Policy for Strategic Gateways and Trade Corridors.

According to Transport Canada, between 1995 and 2005, Canada's exports more than doubled, from $3.5 billion to $7.1 billion, in Canadian dollars.

Yet, imports from China dwarfed the numbers.

Between 1995 and 2005, Canada's imports from China grew almost 550 percent, jumping from $3.6 billion to $29.6 billion, in Canadian dollars.

Transport Canada confidently announces "China's recent dramatic growth (in imports to Canada) is expected to continue."

"Canada's Asia-Pacific Gateway is a burgeoning national strategy that is responding to the rise of Asian economies and the challenges and opportunities Asia now poses for Canada," the official website of the Asia-Pacific Gateway states.

The province of British Columbia has devoted $12 billion for new transportation infrastructure and has established the Asia Pacific Trade Council to build marketing links with China and the Far East.

Canada's Prince Rupert and Vancouver are both deep-water ports suited to accommodate the post-Panamax class of container Megaships China is building.

September 4, 2007
By Jerome R. Corsi
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57463

Deal develops Canada's NAFTA Superhighway
Here come Chinese containers to Great White North

An agreement announced by Transport Canada last month advances toward reality the massive planning that has been done to develop the NAFTA Superhighway in Canada.

A July 30 press release on the website of Transport Canada, the Canadian government's counterpart to the U.S. Department of Transportation, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, between the governments of Canada and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec to develop the "Continental Gateway and Trade Corridor."

The memorandum noted Ontario and Quebec are "vital contributors to the Canadian economy representing approximately 60 percent of Canada's exports and gross domestic product."

"The main objective of this MOU," the document continued, "is to establish this commercial gateway and trade corridor as a strategic, integrated and globally competitive transportation system that supports the movement of international trade."

The memorandum makes clear that the billions of dollars in toll-road highway construction and infrastructure development contemplated will be financed by private investors, including foreign investment consortia, under the model of "public-private partnerships," or PPPs.

The Ontario-Quebec segment of the Canadian Continental Gateway and Trade Corridor derives from a National Policy Framework for Strategic Gateways and Trade Corridors announced this year by the minority conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

According to the National Policy Framework, the Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway and Trade Corridor "encompasses a system of land, air and marine transportation assets, including the Saint Lawrence River and Great Lakes, that offers a competitive and attractive gateway for international trade."

That globalist impulses are driving Canada's National Policy Framework is made clear from the attention the defining statement of the policy gives to NAFTA and world trade, including competition from the European Union.

"No country in the world is better positioned than Canada to prosper in the emerging global economy," Harper states in a quote included in the "National Policy Framework for Strategic Gateways and Trade Corridors" posted on the Trade Canada website. "The Gateway Initiative is obviously critical to realizing our potential as a country."

The text clearly explains, "The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union (EU) gave rise to new trading blocs that have underpinned the new integrated global marketplace."

The document also addresses the need to place an integrated North American economy and marketplace into an emerging global marketplace that is increasingly dominated by China and India.

"Coupled with the emergence of new economic powers such as China and India, global marketplace integration is driving the distribution of economic activity, as well as the expansion of world trade," the defining document continues.

As WND has reported, PPPs involve comprehensive development contracts negotiated between governments and private investors, including foreign investors, in which the capital required for transportation infrastructure will be invested by private concerns who will then own the toll right concessions for decades after completion of the project.

The Trans-Texas Corridor, or TTC-35, the four-football-fields wide new truck-train-automobile-pipeline superhighway being built by the Texas Department of Transportation is a PPP promoted by the Federal Highway Administration, in which the billions required for the new toll road are being provided by Cintra Concessiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, a private investment consortium in Spain.

On April 30, 1992, President George H. W. Bush signed Executive Order No. 12803 on infrastructure privatization, which created PPPs by clearing federal barriers for cities and states to lease public works infrastructure to private investors.

The Canadian National Policy Framework for Strategic Gateways and Trade Corridors shares with the Texas DOT a vision that "intermodal transportation" is one key concept required to understanding the plans now being implemented for building new NAFTA Superhighway infrastructure.

"Intermodal transportation" involves moving containers by a variety of modes of transportation, including ship, airplane, truck and train, without having to repack the containers.

WND has reported the underlying agenda of the multi-national corporations is to redesign and reconfigure NAFTA trade corridors, such as Interstate 35, into new NAFTA Superhighways that will minimize the cost of transporting containers of manufactured goods originating in China and the Far East to their ultimate destinations in North America.

Thus, a container originating in China with low-cost manufactured goods built by Chinese low-cost labor can head toward North American consumers in a container ship across the Pacific Ocean.

Unloading the container in Mexican ports, such as Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Texas, further reduces costs by using Mexican dock workers to unload the goods and Mexican trucks and Mexican trains to transport the goods north along trade corridor transportation infrastructure, such as TTC-35.

Newly defined "inland port" cities such as Kansas City, San Antonio, and Denver then become warehousing centers for depositing the Chinese containers, so they can be transported, largely by truck, to their ultimate retailing regional distribution center or local mass market outlet.

The importance of this intermodal transportation concept as a design principal behind the reconfiguration of NAFTA Superhighway infrastructure is evidenced when the Canadian National Policy Framework for Strategic Gateways and Trade Corridors openly states, "With businesses increasingly relying on seamless, secure and efficient multi-modal transportation systems as keys to their success, transportation is being recognized as more than ever to Canada's competitiveness."

It references the Conference Board of Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as endorsing this multimodal concept, quoting the Conference Board in their four-volume "Mission Policy" recommendations as stating, "Private industry and all levels of government need to be relentless in pursuing the modernization and coordination of trade, transportation and border infrastructure, including security, as a national priority."

WND has previously reported the North American Competitiveness Council, a group of 30 multi-national corporations hand-picked by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and the Instituto Mexicano par la Competitividad, was the only group allowed to meet in the closed-door meetings with the leaders, bureaucrats and top-level ministers at the third SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec, on Aug. 20-21.

WND has also reported the ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas are managed by the Communist Chinese port operating firm Hutchison Ports Holding, which is involved in a joint venture with Lockheed Martin installing RFID sensors along Interstate 35 to track the progress of Chinese containers from the Mexican ports as they travel the NAFTA Superhighway.

The Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway and Trade Corridor is part of the Harper "New Government" 2007 budget plan, "Building Canada," designed to invest $33 billion in Canadian transportation infrastructure between 2007 and 2014.

The "Building Canada" infrastructure plan includes $2.1 billion through the Gateways and Border Crossing Fund "to improve the flow of goods between Canada and the rest of the world by enhancing infrastructure at key locations, such as major border crossings between Canada and the United States."

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NAU interview on Outside the Box

2007-08-27T04:44:38Z

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8467474439722201827&q=outside+the+box+115&total=12&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
This Outside the Box episode Alex goes over some brief updates on Noble Resolve 7-02 and Peace Mission 2007 (Chinese / Russian drills) in the first part of the show. The rest of the program features author Dr. Jerome Corsi to discuss the recent SPP meeting in Canada and the North American Union.

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SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence

2007-08-23T01:29:23Z

Steve Watson
http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/220807Provocateurs_SPP.htm
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.

A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their faces masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in front of a line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men is holding a rock in his hand, reports the Canadian Press.

The three are confronted by protest organizer Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it clear the masked men are not welcome among his group of protesters, whom he describes as mainly grandparents. He urges them to leave and find their own protest location.

Watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

Notice how the "anarchists" begin to become uncomfortable when Coles and others accuse them of really being cops, while pulling at their face masks. They are seen to edge closer to the uniformed police and engage in some form of discussion. The police then let them pass through their line with very little resistance and "arrest" them in what is plainly a total charade.

More damning proof that the radicals were in fact cops was revealed with the release of photographs of the incident which show that the anarchists have exactly the same footwear on as the cops.

On the soles of their boots are yellow triangles, exactly the same as on the boots of a police officer kneeling beside the men.

While some have said the marks could represent Canadian Safety Industry seals, it seems very coincidental when placed in context with the way the rioters were "subdued".

To compound the evidence, police have stated that only 4 protestors in total have been arrested and charged, two of them being women. Veteran protest organizers have confirmed the identity of the four as genuine protesters.

So what happened to the rock wielding anarchists?

The few radical protestors at the summit have provided police with the pretext to use rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray on peaceful protestors.

Neither the RCMP nor the Surete du Quebec would comment on the video or even discuss generally whether they ever use the tactic of employing agents provocateurs, however it has been common practice at previous protests for authorities to employ police or special forces to intentionally infiltrate peaceful protests and cause violence.

In Seattle in 1999 at the World Trade Organization meeting, the authorities declared a state of emergency, imposed curfews and resorted to nothing short of police state tactics in response to a small minority of hostile black bloc hooligans. In his film Police State 2, Alex Jones covered the fact that the police allowed the black bloc to run riot in downtown Seattle while they concentrated on preventing the movement of peaceful protesters. The film presents evidence that the left-wing anarchist groups are actually controlled by the state and used to demonize peaceful protesters.

At WTO protests in Genoa 2001 a protester was killed after being shot in the head and run over twice by a police vehicle. The Italian Carabinere also later beat on peaceful protesters as they slept, and even tortured some, at the Diaz School. It later emerged that the police fabricated evidence against the protesters, claiming they were anarchist rioters, to justify their actions. Some Carabiniere officials have since come forward to say they knew of infiltration of the so called Black Bloc anarchists, that fellow officers acted as agent provocateurs.

At the Free Trade Area of Americas protests in Miami in late November 2003, more provocateuring was evident. The United Steelworkers of America calling for a congressional investigation, stating that the police intentionally caused violence and arrested and charged hundreds of peaceful protestors. The USWA suggested that billions of dollars supposedly slated for Iraq reconstruction funds are actually being used to subsidize ‘homeland repression’ in America.

Canadian Prime Minister Harper's description of protestors at the SPP summit as "sad" along with President Bush's latest comments that critics of the SPP are peddling conspiracy theories, in spite of the the fact that heads of unions, law experts and House Representatives are deeply concerned over the program's agenda, are indications of how much of a threat they see peaceful protesters and outspoken critics to be.

The globalist elite have demonstratively used provocateuring to demonize all demonstrators attempting to expose their criminality, the SPP summit is the latest in a long list of examples.

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Maude Barlow speaks about the SPP on CTV

2007-08-22T03:21:35Z

Worth a watch, not near long enough to go into the proper details of the SPP, but the most "real coverage" from the mainstream media than I have seen to date.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/HTMLTemplate?tf=/ctv/mar/video/new_player.html&cf=ctv/mar/ctv.cfg&hub=CTVNewsAt11&video_link_high=mms://ctvbroadcast.ctv.ca/video/2007/08/19/ctvvideologger3_187540225_1187541670_500kbps.wmv&video_link_low=mms://ctvbroadcast.ctv.ca/video/2007/08/19/ctvvideologger3_187540224_1187540350_218kbps.wmv&clip_start=00:07:26.57&clip_end=00:02:45.16&clip_caption=CTV%20Newsnet:%20Maude%20Barlow,%20The%20Council%20of%20Canadians&clip_id=ctvnews.20070819.00209000-00209233-clip2&subhub=video&no_ads=&sortdate=20070819&slug=montebello_protest_070819&archive=CTVNews

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I wrote Dr. Martin MP...

2007-08-05T18:07:37Z

Dear Mr.________,

Thank you for contacting my office concerning the Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America (SPP).

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was launched
in 2005 to increase security and enhance prosperity between Canada, the
United States, and Mexico.

It is not a treaty but merely a means of maximizing our ability to secure
our borders and improve trade between our countries. It has been, for
example, successful at reducing wait times at the border so there can be a
free flow of goods and services. This partnership ensures that all three
countries act independently, and in a way that respects their own domestic
laws. Put another way, no country can act in a way that violates another
country's own domestic laws.

Attached is a small brief on the partnership that I trust will answer many
of the questions you have.

This is not a violation of Canada's ability to control our destiny as a
country, and does not in any way, shape or form overshadow our own laws. We
are an independent country, and must act accordingly.

Best wishes,
Dr. Keith Martin, M.D., P.C., M.P.
Esquimalt - Juan de Fuca
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This represents the typically bureaucratic 'soft-shoe shuffle' we've been receiving from pretty much everyone involved with the SPP that we've contacted thus far. The 'small brief' he refers to is the FAQ taken right from the 'official' Canadian SPP site.
www.spp-psp.gc.ca/overview/faqs-en.aspx

It's interesting to note that since the time of his response, we've been subjected to a "harmonization" of pesticide regulations between the U.S. and Canada, which translates to Canada allowing MORE pesticides in the foods that it imports from the U.S. Additionally, the U.S. army, who will be commanding the RCMP and Sûreté du Québec, have authoritatively established that a 25 kilometer perimeter will be imposed around the Montebello meetings this month. (I think by definition a foreign military exerting authority in a sovereign country is called "occupation".)

These two examples certainly seem to contradict Mr. Martin's euphemistic and optimistic perspective that, "This partnership ensures that all three countries act independently, and in a way that respects their own domestic laws. Put another way, no country can act in a way that violates another country's own domestic laws."

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TARGET THE CANADIAN MEMBERSHIP OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL

2007-08-04T21:05:01Z

The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was launched as part of
the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in June 2006. It is the only
formal advisory board to the SPP and is made up of 30 corporate leaders
from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico with ten advisors from each of the SPP
signatory states. A September 13, 2006 story in Maclean's magazine
describes NACC as a “cherrypicked group of executives who were whisked to
Cancun in March by the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and asked
to come up with a plan for taking North American integration beyond
NAFTA.”

The NACC has become the concrete reality emerging from proposals by
corporate think-tanks such the Canadian Council of Chief Executives
(CCCE), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Consejo Mexicano De
Asuntos Internacionels (COMEXI) to have a trilateral corporate body which
would advise the three governments on issues ranging from military
integration to securing energy resources to controlling migration. In
Canada, for example, in January 2003, the CCCE (a CEO organization whose
corporations administer in excess of C$2.1 trillion in assets and is the
leading force in the Canadian private sector behind NAFTA) launched its
North American Security and Prosperity Initiative with initiatives to
increase investment and capital flows, integrate security agreements and
military defence, and expedited means of resource (oil, natural gas,
water, forest products) extraction. This has essentially become the
template for the SPP.

In short, the NACC, representing private corporate interests, has been
“institutionalized” as a policy-making body, thus formalizing and
deepening the existing patterns of influence that corporations already
have.

Harper appointed the Canadian membership of the NACC in June 2006: Dominic
D’Alessandro (Manulife Financial); Paul Desmarais, Jr. (Power Corporation
of Canada); David Ganong (Ganong Bros. Limited); Richard George (Suncor
Energy Inc.); Hunter Harrison (CN); Linda Hasenfratz (Linamar
Corporation); Michael Sabia (Bell Canada Enterprises); Jim Shepherd
(Canfor Corporation); Annette Verschuren (The Home Depot); and Rick Waugh
(Scotiabank).

==> THE HOME DEPOT:

"It was an intimate discussion. It was a lot of fun, there were no
reporters, just a freewheeling discussion on the things that drive you
crazy," recalls Annette Verschuren, the president of Home Depot Canada,
who flew in on Harper's jet and said the PM was "very engaged."
- A September 13, 2006 story in Maclean's magazine about a SPP meeting.

Founded in 1978, The Home Depot, Inc. is the world's largest home
improvement specialty retailer and the second largest retailer in the
United States selling building materials, home improvement and lawn and
garden products in addition to providing various services related to home
improvement. In fiscal year 2006, this Delaware-based company’s sales were
$90.8 billion and earnings, $5.8 billion. In recent years, Home Depot has
come under fire from environmentalists as North America's largest lumber
retailer. In June 2007, Home Depot and other big home-improvement stores
lobbied US Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia to amend the Senate
immigration bill so they would be free from having to provide shelter for
day laborers.

==> CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY (CN Rail):

In 1992 a new management team led by ex-federal government bureaucrats,
Paul Tellier and Michael Sabia (Current President of Bell Canada), started
preparing CN, a crown corporation at that point, for privatization by
emphasizing increased productivity. This was eventually achieved in 1995.

The benefits of agreements such as the SPP to transportation companies
such as CN are no mystery. One of the anticipated developments with the
creation of such “open trade zones” are immense trading corridors
consisting of large highways and railway lines to facilitate the transport
of materials either generated within the continent or to facilitate the
movement of goods in a manner that bypasses the restrictions on shipping
to particular areas. This includes transportation through the new Port of
Prince Rupert container terminal, a new North American gateway for
products and commodities moving to Asia. CN is also investing to transport
resources from the oil sands in Alberta. In Western Canada alone, CN in
2007 plans to invest nearly C$350 million in track infrastructure.

Historically and currently, CN Rail has been the target of various
indigenous blockades. CN is currently suing three activists from the
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory for over $ 100 million Their lawsuit is about
intimidating and marginalizing effective indigenous organizers, who are
active in the legitimate defence of their land and livelihood against the
project of Canada’s ‘nation-building’ and resource extraction. CN, for
example, is the largest rail carrier of forest products in North America,
a vast majority of which is extracted from traditional indigenous
territories.

==> MANULIFE FINANCIAL:

Manulife Financial is a Canadian-based financial services group and the
largest life insurance company in Canada. It is the 2nd largest public
company in Canada, and the 6th largest life insurance company in the world
based on a market capitalization of approximately $60 billion. It is
operating as ‘Manulife Financial’ in Canada and Asia, and primarily
through ‘John Hancock’ in the United States. Funds under management by
Manulife Financial and its subsidiaries were Cdn$414 billion (US$355
billion) as at December 31, 2006. In March 2007, Manulife CEO D'Alessandro
spoke against a tax measure aimed to prevent companies from writing off
the costs incurred to finance overseas expansion, which was designed to
close a loophole affecting offshore tax havens.

==> POWER CORPORATION OF CANADA:

Incorporated in 1925, Power Corporation of Canada is a diversified
international management and holding company with interests in companies
that are active in the financial services, communications and other
business sectors. Power controls some of Canada’s biggest blue-chip
companies, including the Investors Group, the country’s largest mutual
fund dealer, and investment firm Mackenzie Financial. It owns insurers
Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life and London Life. Together with its
subsidiaries, London Life and Canada Life, Great-West sells insurance to
more than 12 million Canadians. Power Technology Investment Corporation is
a wholly owned subsidiary of Power Corporation which invests in the
biotechnology and technology sectors. In addition to its investments in
Neurochem Inc. and Adaltis Inc., two public companies based in Montréal.
Power owns several Quebec newspapers, including La Presse. It also holds
substantial positions in Chinese airlines and telecom firms and has large
stakes in the world’s leading entertainment company, Bertelsmann, as well
as a big piece of one of Europe’s largest oil producers. In 2003, Power
Corp. reported annual revenues of $16 billion.

Power Corporation of Canada made headlines in 2005 when it was revealed
that the man handpicked by the UN secretary general to probe the UN’s
scandalized Oil-for-Food program, Paul Volcker, had not disclosed to the
UN that he was a paid adviser to Power Corporation. This was a clear
conflict of interest as Power Corporation had ties to the French oil
giant, Total, which was being investigated under the Iraq Oil-for-Food
program for lucrative contracts to develop and exploit the Majnoon and
Nahr Umar oil fields in southern Iraq.Most currently, Total is building a
pipeline in Eastern Burma that has caused the violent relocation of
thousands of people and is being built using forced labor. The
Total/UNOCAL Yadana natural gas pipeline is one of the largest sources of
revenue for Burma’s despotic regime.

Former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin has served as an Executive to
Power Corporation and former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
was Power’s “labour-relations” lawyer. The son of family head Paul
Desmarais Sr., Andre Desmarais is married to the daughter of Jean
Chrétien. John Rae (brother of Bob Rae) is a Senior Power Corp. executive
who organized two out of three of Jean Chretien’s successful election
bids.

==> GANONG BROTHERS LIMITED:

Ganong Bros. Limited is Canada's oldest candy company; founded in 1873.
With its head office located in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, the
corporation also has offices in Moncton, Toronto and Vancouver. Its
largest sales volume is from boxed chocolates and it currently exports to
the USA and United Kingdom. Ganong employs about 400 people.

==> SUNCOR ENERGY CORP.:

Suncor is an integrated energy company, with corporate headquarters in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company explores for, acquires, develops,
produces and markets crude oil and natural gas, transports and refines
crude oil and markets petroleum and petrochemical products. Besides
Suncor’s Oil Sands business, their Natural Gas business, based in Calgary,
Alberta, explores for, acquires, develops and produces natural gas and
natural gas liquids from reserves in Western Alberta and Northeastern
British Columbia. In addition, Suncor’s indirectly wholly-owned U.S.
subsidiary, Suncor Energy (Natural Gas) America Inc., acquires land and
explores for coal bed methane in the United States. Suncor’s third
business, Energy Marketing and Refining - Canada, headquartered in
Toronto, Ontario, refines crude oil at Suncor’s refinery in Sarnia,
Ontario. Suncor’s fourth business is Refining and Marketing U.S.A.,
headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Richard George is the president and chief executive officer of Suncor
Energy Inc. Mr. George is also a director of the U.S. offshore and onshore
drilling company GlobalSantaFe Corporation. He served as chairman of the
Canadian Council of Chief Executives from 2003 to 2006. In addition to a
base salary of $1,117,077, Mr. George received an annual incentive of
$2,000,000 for 2006. Moreover, compared to other energy producing nations,
Canada has the lowest taxes on oil in the world—-just 23 cents per
barrel—-which guarantees that most of the money earned goes in the pockets
of overpaid CEOs, corporations and shareholders.

The company is focused on developing one of the world’s largest petroleum
resource basins the Athabasca oil sands. Oil sand operations currently
produce around one million barrels a day. For Suncor, that means gross
revenue from oil sands of nearly $6 million a day. By 2015, according to
industry forecasts, the oil sands will account for at least one-fourth of
North America's oil production, expected to produce 3 million barrels a
day by 2015.

The oil sands mines have become the largest contributor to Canada's
increase in greenhouse gas emissions and environmental organizations are
calling for a moratorium on the growth of the mines. Alberta accounts for
about 40% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Six of the top 10 emitters
in the country are based in Calgary, including TransAlta, Syncrude Canada
Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada. Yet the SPP calls for a
fivefold increase in tar sands production in Alberta and an alternative to
the Kyoto Protocol since the oil sands are a clear violation of Kyoto
commitments. Furthermore, the oil sand mines are being carved out of
Canada's vast Boreal forest, a continental swath of timber and wetlands
that ecologists say helps reduce global warming.

Suncor and other companies exploiting the tar sands are calling for the
expansion of the temporary foreign worker program as a means of securing
hyper-exploitable labour that will ensure higher profits. Foreign worker
programs across North America have documented widespread abuse, including
being tied to the employer who “imports” them; facing deportation if they
assert their rights; and exploitative working conditions including low
wages and long hours with no overtime pay. In April 2007, for example, two
migrants workers died and four others critically injured at an oil sands
project run by run by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. The Alberta
Federation of Labour reported that the workers who called to report the
accident to the union subsequently had their cellphones confiscated.

Indigenous communities around the tarsands, including the Lubicon, Dene,
Mikisew Cree, have been actively opposing the projects. The Dehcho First
Nations has been opposing the 1,200-kilometre Mackenzie Valley pipeline
and industrial development on their unceded traditional territories. The
Lubicon Nation has also seen their traditional lands overrun by massive
oil and gas exploitation which has destroyed traditional lands and ways of
life. The Lubicon Nation has been seeking a land rights settlement with
the federal and provincial governments for years, yet corporate
development has continued unabated. The Lubicon Nation estimates that over
$13 billion in oil and gas resources have been taken from Lubicon
Traditional Territory since oil and gas exploitation began 26 years ago.
Native residents of Fort Chipewyan, a village of 1,200 on the shores of
Lake Athabasca, have experienced abnormally high rates of rare cancers.
Recently, the alarming levels of toxic chemicals in the air, water and
soil near Sarnia were exposed when it was found that these chemicals were
likely contributing to the skewed gender balance in the Aamjiwnaang First
Nations reserve near Sarnia.

==> LINAMAR CORPORATION:

Linamar is a diversified global manufacturing company of highly engineered
products, especially of autoparts. The Company conducts its operations in
five geographic areas, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Asia Pacific and
Europe. Linamar’s four largest customers in 2006, as measured by
consolidated sales, were the General Motors group of companies (“GM”),
DaimlerChrysler AG ("Chrysler"), Caterpillar Inc. (“CAT”) and Ford Motor
Company ("Ford"). The Company’s Canadian segment accounted for
approximately 74% of total revenues. Linamar generated sales of close to
$2.3 billion in 2006. Linda Hasenfratz, CEO of Linamar, is a strong
supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and supports
“unregulated free trade”. Linamar is aiming to expand to Asia, expecting
300 million to $500 million in annuals sales in Asia within five to seven
years with plants in China and South Korea.

==> BELL CANADA ENTERPRISES:

As at December 31, 2006, total assets of BCE were $42.9 million of which
$42.6 million, or 99.3%, were in the form of cash and cash equivalents and
temporary investments as well as accrued interest. Only approximately 46%
of BCE employees are represented by unions and are covered by collective
agreements. According to BCE, Cost reductions from efficiency-related
process improvements in the past year were driven primarily by: “workforce
reductions stemming from greater use of outsourcing and other productivity
initiatives” among other methods.

Michael J. Sabia is President and Chief Executive Officer of BCE Inc. and
Chief Executive Officer of Bell Canada. He is also Chairman of the Board
of Bell Aliant Regional Communications, as well as director of BCE Inc.,
Bell Canada and The Thomson Corporation. Before joining BCI, Sabia was an
executive of Canadian National Railway Company where he had a major role
in privatizing the company. Prior to that he held a number of senior
positions in the Canadian federal government, including Director-General
of Tax Policy in the Department of Finance and Deputy Secretary to the
Cabinet (Plans) in the Privy Council Office.

==> CANFOR CORPORATION:

Canfor is a Canadian forest products company based in Vancouver, British
Columbia, involved primarily in the lumber and panels business, with
production facilities in British Columbia, Alberta, Québec and the United
States. Canfor is the largest spruce-pine-fir (“SPF”) lumber producer in
the world. Softwood lumber production facilities are located in British
Columbia, Alberta, Québec and the United States. Canfor also holds
approximately 10.9 million cubic metres of annual harvesting rights under
its forest tenures.

As an industry, forestry and logging has been never been sustainable.
Currently, more than 80% of the BC timber harvest continues to be derived
from primaeval frontier forests, including future logging within the 20
million acre tract of endangered temperate Great Bear Rainforest.
Furthermore, despite the fact that over 97% of British Columbia land is
unceded Indigenous territory, Canfor maintains that the province of
British Columbia owns approximately 95% of all timberlands in the province
and is empowered to “grant various forms of tenure and to regulate
forestry operations”. Canfor has also been a strong proponent of the
US-Canada Softwood Lumber Deal.

Former Liberal and now Conservative Cabinet Minister David Emerson is a
former Canfor CEO. Mr. Shepherd is the current C.E.O. of Canfor and also
sits as a Director on the Council of Forest Industries, B.C. Progress
Board, Canadian Lumber Trade Alliance Incorporated, Vancouver Board of
Trade, The Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, Canadian
Council of Chief Executives, University of Northern British Columbia, and
is Chairman of the Forest Products Association of Canada.

==> SCOTIABANK:

The Bank, and its affiliates, have almost 12 million customers in some 50
countries, which provide a wide range of banking and financial services,
either directly or through subsidiary and associated banks, trust
companies and other financial institutions. In the fiscal year ended
October 31, 2006, the Bank’s net income available to common shareholders
was a record $3,549 million, an increase of $365 million or 12% higher
than 2005. The Bank’s International Banking business line operates in more
than 40 countries and includes operations in the following geographic
regions: the Caribbean and Central America, Mexico, Latin America, and
Asia. In Mexico, Grupo Financiero Scotiabank Inverlat, S.A. de C.V. is the
sixth-largest financial group in the Mexican banking system.

http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=438

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SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP BACKGROUND

2007-08-04T20:15:46Z

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
August 7, 2006
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis73.htm

Dr. Jerome Corsi recently has been warning people about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which President Bush signed with the head of both the Canadian and Mexican governments on March 23, 2005, in Waco, Texas. At the same time this agreement was signed supposedly to improve the security and economic prosperity of each of the 3 nations, a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report, "Building a North American Community," not coincidentally was being prepared by Robert Pastor (U.S.), Wendy Dobson (Canada) and Luis Rubio (Mexico). And in this 100-page report released May 2005, one finds plans for a North American Union by 2010, with its own court, legislative body, executive commission, Customs officials and currency called the Amero.

In case you think this idea came from nowhere, the following background or timeline should prove instructive:

1) July 1792---AMERICAN MUSEUM publishes Philip Freneau's warning to Americans about how their Republic could be undermined by the power elite. For the first half of the 1800s, the power elite will devise ways to break up the U.S.

2) 1863---The historian Motley writes a letter to THE LONDON TIMES describing "the ultimate object of the conspirators...to establish a Gulf Empire" including the southern U.S. and Mexico.

3) November 21, 1864---President Lincoln writes to William Elkin of his great fear that the power elite is working "until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed." Lincoln is assassinated within a few months.

4) 1891---Cecil Rhodes forms his secret Society of the Elect "to take the government of the whole world." His Association of Helpers (AH) forms Round Table Groups from which comes the CFR.

5) October 27, 1908---Alfred Lord Milner, who implements Rhodes' plan, writes to Canadian AH member Arthur Glazebrook : "I think every member of your body should feel it's his principal business to influence as many people as possible who are not of it and who do not know they are being influenced." A half century later, Rhodes scholars will surround Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson who, according to William Frye in A UNITED NATIONS PEACE FORCE, will be "the author of the U.N. Emergency Force," which would grow to have a collective security function.

6) 1942---P.E. Corbett, Canadian AH member, authors POST-WAR WORLDS calling for "a world association binding together and coordinating regional groupings of states (that) may evolve toward one universal federal government....World government is the ultimate aim...(with) common economic agencies for advice and control...an Economic and Financial Organization, embracing Trade, Development, and Migration Commissions, and a Central Bank. The functions of these institutions...would be to regulate the production and distribution of raw materials and food, control the flow of inter-regional investment and migration, etc."

7) 1952---World government map prepared by World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government shows Chinese (Mongolian) forces will be policing in Mexico. Under the SPP, there will be a TransAmerica highway running from Mexico to Canada, splitting the U.S. Chinese containers from ships will be offloaded in Mexican ports (avoiding American Longshoremen) and trucked by Mexicans (avoiding American Teamsters) through Kansas City where the only inspection will be performed by Mexican Customs officials in Kansas City.

8) 1953---Ford Foundation president H. Rowan Gaither will reveal they are under White House directives to have a "comfortable merger" between the U.S. and USSR.

9) 1953---John J. McCloy, agent of the power elite, becomes chairman of the CFR until 1970. From 1958 to 1965, he also will be chairman of the Ford Foundation.

10) 1968---The Hispanic organization, the Southwest Council of LaRaza Unida, is created with a $630,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, which supports the movement to bring massive numbers of Mexicans into the U.S. From 1968 to 1992, Ford Foundation grants to radical Hispanics totaled over $31 million. And according to Henry Santiestevan (former head of the Southwest Council of LaRaza), "It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the Ford Foundation is the Chicano movement."

11) 1972---CFR member Lester R. Brown (1991 Humanist of the Year) authors WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS and writes in the LOS ANGELES TIMES (November 19, 1972) about the need for countries to "sacrifice a measure of sovereignty."

12) April 1974---The CFR's FOREIGN AFFAIRS publishes Trilateralist and Rhodes scholar Richard Gardner's "The Hard Road to World Order" claiming that "an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece-by-piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." Gardner also explains how GATT will be part of this process.

13) 1991---"The Pacific Northwest Economic Region" (www.pnwer.org) is begun, and is comprised of Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. It is defined as "an economic consortium created by legislative leaders of states and provinces in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada," whose goals are "to build a world class workforce to make the Pacific Northwest economic region competitive in worldwide markets; and to develop a lifelong education system for the states and provinces which includes measurable objectives." Most of the region is known as Cascadia.

14) September 27-October 1, 1995---Mikhail Gorbachev's first State of the World Forum is held, at which first Trilateral Commission director Zbigniew Brzezinski reveals: "We cannot leap into world government through one quick step. A consensual global system requires a process....The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."

15) August 4, 1996---Rhodes scholar and future CFR president Richard Haass over 5 years before the terrorist attacks of 9/11 writes "'Land of the Free' Makes a Tempting Target" in THE PALM BEACH POST about "a world in which borders count less and less," and he states: "The war against terrorism is a war with an unlimited number of battles, none of them decisive....What price are we prepared to pay? The price will be financial and personal. People will have to accept longer lines before entering buildings, longer delays at airports, more intrusive searches of belongings and our persons....Greater vigilance will also involve a willingness to compromise some of our civil liberties, including accepting more frequent phone taps and surveillance....Those who would resist paying such a price should keep in mind that terrorism could well get worse in coming years."

16) July 7, 1999---THE TORONTO STAR publishes "NAFTA for military proposed" by Linda Diebel describing a report by Lt. Col. Joseph Nunez of the U.S. Army War College advocating a joint command for American, Mexican and Canadian forces.

17) June 17, 2000---The Ottawa, Canada, CITIZEN publishes "Border with U.S. 'likely to disappear'," which begins as follows: "An American think-tank is calling on Canada, the United States and Mexico to combine customs, immigration and security functions to the point at which borders become almost irrelevant. A study released yesterday by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace urges the three countries to explore whether a North American 'integration project' is worth pursuing and to develop a strategic plan for rethinking border relationships."

18) 2002---David Rockefeller, chairman of the CFR 1970-1985 and Trilateral Commission founder, authors MEMOIRS, in which he remarks: "Some even believe we (Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure---one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

19) 2004---During the presidential campaign, President Bush mails a video to Hispanic voters showing him waving a Mexican flag and stating: "About 15 years before the Civil War, much of the American West was northern Mexico. The people who lived there weren't called Latinos or Hispanics. They were Mexican citizens, until all that land became part of the United States. After that, many of them were treated as foreigners in their own land." Regarding this, the LOS ANGELES TIMES on April 2, 2006, opined that President Bush "essentially described millions of Americans who populate his home state as the true foreigners in someone else's native land."

20) May 26, 2005---U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris (of Florida dangling chad fame) introduces "The North American Cooperative Security Act" (HR 2672), which has as its purpose: "The Secretary of State shall enhance the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico by providing a framework for better management, communication, and coordination between the governments of such countries."

Robert Congdon in Edinburgh, Scotland, is just completing a manuscript concerning the gradualistic, covert process used by Jean Monnet (with the extensive support of the CFR) to form the European Union (EU), and Congdon has described how the same process is being applied to the SPP which will be linked to the EU. On January 9, 2000, the EU presented a paper, "Strategic Objectives 2000-2005: Shaping the New Europe," in which they revealed: "What we are aiming at is a new kind of global governance to manage the global economy and environment." About three months later, on March 31, 2000, EU Commission president (and now Italian Prime Minister) Romano Prodi delivered a speech titled "Europe and Global Governance," in which he declared that "global governance can emerge only from inter-regional co-operation....This means pursuing both economic and political integration....Our European model of integration is the most developed in the world....I believe that we can make a convincing case that it would also work globally." Linking the SPP to the EU is an important step in the plan for world government.

© 2006 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved

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I wrote Sen. Feinstein re: North American Union ... This is her response ...

2007-08-03T23:23:11Z

Dear Ms. _________:

Thank you for writing to express your concern about U.S. cooperation with Canada and Mexico. I appreciate the time you took to write me and welcome the opportunity to respond.

In the past several months, my office has received a number of letters regarding allegations that the Administration is taking steps toward the creation of a "North American Union." Several constituents expressed special concern about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, which was created in 2005 to facilitate and strengthen cooperation between the United States, Canada, and Mexico on issues affecting North America as a whole, including terrorism, pandemics, energy security, environmental practices, and trade.

I do not support a political or economic union with Canada and Mexico. In my view, the United States must continue to work closely with its neighbors to address shared regional challenges while maintaining its sovereignty. At this time, my office has been unable to corroborate allegations about attempts to create a "North American Union."

Again, thank you for writing. If you have any further comments, please contact my office in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841. Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
____

PS: I encourage everyone to start writing ....

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The RCMP, the Rogue States and the SPP

2007-07-13T07:15:46Z

The RCMP, the Rogue States and the SPP

It is reported by the Council of Canadians (see previous posting) that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and U.S. Army have blocked a public forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) which was to take place during the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21.

After months, if not years, of the RCMP engaging in a range of questionable practices -which culminated in the resignation of the Commissioner Zacardelli - the New RCMP Commissioner William Elliot is taking the RCMP to a new level of ignominy. Before assuming the position of Commissioner of the RCMP, William Elliot, - a "terrorist expert" - in his various capacities, under Transport and Public Safety ministries has been playing a sycophantic role to his US counterparts. Now, with his first act as the RCMP Commissioner he demonstrates that, rather than enforcing the rule of law, he is willing, by denying the Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association, to violate both the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and international human rights instruments, such as the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights to which Canada, US and Mexico are signatories.
If the RCMP is ever going to be credible in the eyes of the public, the RCMP must be perceived to be the enforcer not of the whims of the corporate sector but of fundamental peremptory norms to which most states in the world adhere. The RCMP should be concerned that the SPP summit that the RCMP is so intent on protecting is one with at least two leaders who have seriously violated fundamental norms expressed in Conventions such as the Convention against Torture, and the Geneva conventions.

If the RCMP is to be credible, the RCMP should refuse to be an instrument of the US army, and should act to oppose the Security and Prosperity Partnership which further entrenches the licence to violate not only the fundamental human rights of freedom expression and assembly , but also key legally biding environmental, labour, social justice obligations and commitments.

The RCMP should also be concerned that the three countries have either failed to sign and ratify international agreements related to preventing war and conflict, to guaranteeing human rights, to ensuring social justice, to preserving and protecting the environments, or failed to enact the necessary legislation to ensure the implementation and enforcement of these agreements.

But no, the role of the RCMP has become to protect leaders of states which conspire to undermine the rule of law, and to prevent citizens from acting to protect the commons and the common good.

Joan Russow PhD.
Global Compliance Research Project

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Our reponse to the RCMP/US Army SPP Security Perimeter

2007-07-12T05:47:16Z

Here's a quick knock-off video that we cobbled together as our response to the recent announcement regarding the Council of Canadians who were spurned by the Municipality of Papineauville, in that the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the U.S. Army will not allow the municipality to rent the Centre Communautaire de Papineauville for a public forum on Sunday August 19.

Here's the link:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5121262185345532056&q=a+few+words+north+american&total=74&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

I am grievously angered and ashamed to be living in a fascist country today. Sieg Heil my ass!

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RCMP, U.S. Army block public forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership

2007-07-11T16:59:44Z

The Council of Canadians has been told it will not be allowed to rent a municipal community centre for a public forum it had planned to coincide with the next Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21.

The Municipality of Papineauville, which is about six kilometres from Montebello, has informed the Council of Canadians that the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the U.S. Army will not allow the municipality to rent the Centre Communautaire de Papineauville for a public forum on Sunday August 19, on the eve of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit.

"It is deplorable that we are being prevented from bringing together a panel of writers, academics and parliamentarians to share their concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Canadians," said Brent Patterson, director of organizing with the Council of Canadians. "Meanwhile, six kilometres away, corporate leaders from the United States, Mexico and Canada will have unimpeded access to our political leaders."

As well as being shut out of Papineauville, the Council of Canadians has been told that the RCMP and the SQ will be enforcing a 25-kilometre security perimeter around the Chateau Montebello, where Stephen Harper will meet with George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón on August 20 and 21. According to official sources in Montebello, there will be checkpoints at Thurso and Hawkesbury, and vehicles carrying more than five people will be turned back.

Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada's largest citizens' organization, with members and chapters across the country. The organization works to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, safe food, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.

For more information, contact:
Stuart Trew, media contact: Tel.: (613) 233-4487, ext. 228; Cell: (613) 292-2218: strew@canadians.org; www.canadians.org.

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"Wherefore art thou, our erstwhile fair and just democracy?"
"She has fallen to the wiles of the corporation my son."

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Globalists To Formally Propose Merger Of U.S., Canada, Mexico

2007-07-09T05:56:33Z

North American Union to be presented to Congress by powerful think tank
Prison Planet | July 6, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson

Globalist political heavyweights are preparing to formally propose to Congress the merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union at the end of summer after they held secret meetings to devise a plan that will be presented to representatives of all three governments.

"A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc," reports World Net Daily .

"The data collected for the report is based on seven secret roundtable sessions involving between 21 and 45 people and conducted by CSIS. The participants are politicians, business people, labor leaders and academics from all three countries with equal representation."

The report is entitled "North American Future 2025 Project" and was prepared in collaboration with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), who were previously instrumental in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994.

The plan outlines an agenda to unify the three countries into a European Union style power bloc.

Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) documents released under the FOIA show that a wide range of US administrative law is being re-written in stealth under this program to "integrate" and "harmonize" with administrative law in Mexico and Canada, just as has become commonplace within the EU.

The documents contain references to upwards of 13 working groups within an entire organized infrastructure that has drawn from officials within most areas of administrative government including U.S. departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

The United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership that will see regulatory standards "harmonized" and will lay the basis for a merging of the US and EU into one single market.

18 states have introduced resolutions calling on their federal representatives to halt work on the North American Union (they include Virginia and South Carolina). Three of these states (Idaho, Montana and Oklahoma) have passed their resolutions.

22 U.S. Congressmen, including NC's Virginia Foxx and Walter Jones, along with all three Republican Congressmen running for President, have signed on as co-sponsors of HCR40, which calls on the executive branch to end all work on the North American Union and NAFTA superhighway

http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/nau_globalists_to_formally_propose_us_canada_mexico_merger.htm

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March in Seattle, Washington on August 18th, 2007

2007-07-07T23:57:40Z

Tell your friends ... Post it in your blogs ... spread the word ...

NO NORTH AMERICAN UNION! * * * * * * AMERICANS & CANADIANS UNITE AGAINST THE NAU!

Washingtonians For Immigration Reform (WFIR) in cooperation with Let Freedom
Ring America and StoptheNAU.org is planning to lead a march through Downtown Seattle Saturday August 18th, 2007,
Sign up now - This is your opportunity to stand up for America!

August 20th, 2007 is the date for the next "Security & Prosperity Partnership" (SPP.GOV) summit in Quebec, Canada
where the *3 Amigos* (Leaders of US, Canada & Mexico) will be meeting to further advance their
agenda of creating a "North American Community" by 2010. The Canadian Peace Alliance is planning to lay out the "Unwelcome Mat" for Bush and his "North American Union" allies. Let's help out our Canadian neighbors to
* * * LAY OUT THE UNWELCOME MAT * * * in Seattle, Washington on August 18th, 2007
March to take place from The Space Needle to the Federal Building and then back to the Space Needle

Please email contact@mfawash.org if you plan to attend or would like more information
(notification of attendance so we get the proper permits from the City so they can block off the streets).
Everyone is encouraged to bring an American & Canadian flag as a show of solidarity with our
Canadian counterparts who don't want the NAU anymore than we do.
March for America! Washington Infoline:
1-877-MFA-WASH (632-9274) - or - E-mail contact@mfawash.org

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White House prepared to open U.S. air routes to Canada, Mexico

2007-07-07T23:30:01Z

Chad Groening
OneNewsNow.com
June 25, 2007

An author and investigative journalist says the Bush administration is working on a plan that would essentially erase national borders for air carriers, perhaps paving the way for Mexican and Canadian airlines to compete with U.S. carriers for American domestic and international routes.

At an April meeting in Tucson, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters met with her Canadian and Mexican counterparts to discuss the initial "North American Transportation Trilateral." At the meeting, which went virtually unreported by the American mainstream media, Secretary Peters noted that agreements with the two countries -- a 2005 air services agreement with Mexico, and the Open Skies accord signed with Canada in March -- lift restrictions on continental travel, effectively providing for "free and open trans-border air travel."

Dr. Jerome Corsi says the agreements, which are part of President Bush's controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership, will throw open lucrative U.S. air routes. "So Mexicana can fly from Los Angeles to New York, or New York to Paris, or New York to Las Vegas -- anywhere they want to go inside the United States as if they were U.S. airline," he explains.

But Corsi has other concerns as well. He says in order to carry out the plan, the U.S. has already constructed five stations designed to give Canada and Mexico access to what is known as the Wide Area Augmentation System, which allows them to know the location of every U.S. aircraft -- military as well as commercial.

"Mexico and Canada can't run their airplanes into U.S. airspace without also knowing where our military airplanes are," Corsi notes. "So we've just given away the national security system secrets about military aircraft in order to permit Mexico to run Mexicana and other Mexican airplanes."

Corsi says a North American Open Skies agreement would virtually eliminate national boundaries as far as air carriers are concerned.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/06/white_house_prepared_to_open_u.php

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Building a North American Union Conspiracy

2007-07-03T03:41:06Z

Dana Gabriel
Stop Lying
Monday July 2, 2007

The deniers, white washers, shills, and propaganda masters are purposely misleading the public into believing that that the North American Union is a conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, most people are too busy or lazy to care and check it out for themselves. Some of the articles debunking the NAU do little of the sort, but even bad propaganda can fool the people. The NAU is being kept secret in the sense that working groups are meeting without public participation or knowledge in some cases, and are conducting business without debate or oversight. Wouldn't the NAU require massive amounts of legislation with new agencies and institutions having to be created? The whole point is to bypass this process. It is through these working groups that the NAU is being formed with unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats assuming the power. In fact, the only legislation that has been introduced by Congress or state legislatures is resolutions to block the NAU. The push for total amnesty, open borders, and the NAU will continue even with the Senate recently blocking the immigration bill. When one starts to read the documentation pertaining to the creation of an NAU, they will find out for themselves that it is much worse than I or others are reporting.

The immigration bill has been defeated for the time being, but every time it is reintroduced, it comes closer to passing. President Bush and others attempted to ram the bill through despite upwards of 70% of the American people being against it. Perhaps Bush wishes this and a NAU to be his lasting legacy. The bill contained provisions to help advance the NAU, and it remains to be seen if he will get another crack at it before his term ends. The plan to eliminate illegal immigration by erasing our borders is moving forward. Multinational corporations view borders as barriers to increased profits and envision a world without them, where an endless supply of cheap goods and labor is able to move freely. This would require new infrastructure, such as the construction of the NAFTA Superhighway. Intentionally unsecured borders with Mexico and the lack of immigration enforcement only helps to advance the NAU agenda. In time, immigration will become migration if borders cease to exist.

Trade deals such as NAFTA and CAFTA have further facilitated the freer flow of goods and people across our borders. They are part of the push for open borders and the dissolution of national sovereignty. The NAFTA model has proven to be a failure, and has lead to a race to the bottom in wages and the destruction of the middle class. It isn't about free or fair trade, and future deals will continue the exploitation of cheap labor by corporations with no regard for the workers rights or the environment. NAFTA has resulted in U.S. trade deficits with both Canada and Mexico as well as the loss of millions of jobs. It was even suggested by some that it would slow down the flow of illegal immigration. What a crock that turned out to be. Trade deals such as NAFTA best serve corporate interests, and deeper trilateral integration is a stepping stone towards the FTAA and a Pan-American Union. The proposed FTAA would expand NAFTA to the rest of the hemisphere. It is more than just a trade deal, but a system of control which will further empower transnational corporation's rights. Theses trade deals are helping to bring about a new economic and political entity while undermining democratic control in regards to domestic policy making. This will eventually lead to the complete loss of our independence and our sovereignty forever.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America was signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States on March 23rd, 2005. It is an expansion of NAFTA, and essentially the framework for a NAU. Working groups are laying the foundation as deeper integration is being achieved without public review or congressional oversight. Each working group has a counterpart from the other two nations. There are upwards of 20 working groups and subgroups, working with over 300 agencies on harmonizing regulations, writing out policy initiatives and recommendations. The U.S. Department of Commerce has created a new division to implement the working groups with the purpose of advancing the NAU. The security aspect of the SPP is being pursued through the Traveller, Cargo, Aviation, and Maritime Security working groups. Others include the Law Enforcement, Bio-protection, Science and Technology, Intelligence Cooperation, Border Facilitation and the Protection, Preparedness and Response working groups. The prosperity side of the SPP is being pursued by the Energy, the Manufactured Goods ,and Sectoral and Regional Competitiveness, Environmental and Health working groups. In addition, there are the Movement of Goods, Food and Agriculture Systems, Financial Services, and the E-Commerce and Information and Communications Technologies working groups. Most of their meetings are held in secret and the majority of the trilateral agreements reached have never been published. Geri Word, the administrator in charge of the SPP, said of all the secrecy, “we did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public.” God forbid that ordinary citizens would have questions and demand more transparency with this whole process.

Recently, Canadian pesticide regulations were harmonized with those of the United States. Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. food and drug regulations are also being harmonized through the Trilateral Cooperation Charter. Mexico is spearheading this particular initiative through the Mexico, United States, Canada Health Fraud working group (MUCH). The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) is made up of 30 senior private sector representatives from all three countries. It is part of the SPP process providing recommendations on issues such as border regulations, competitiveness in automotive, transportation, and manufacturing service sectors. The North American Aviation Trilateral (NAAT) was established to help achieve the SPP's goals in matters of civil aviation. Here is a quote from a statement released by the Ministers Responsibility for the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in February of 2007. “We have tasked SPP working groups and coordinators with revitalizing and streamlining their work plans to ensure that the initiatives are more focused and results-orientated.” On the 20th and the 21st of August, the SPP Summit will be held in Montebello, Quebec, Canada. The SPP is an ongoing process which is being further fast tracked, and by all accounts it appears to be on schedule.

Every time I read an article, or comment that the NAU is a conspiracy theory, I get angry at first because I know a lot of people will be deceived, but then it motivates me to do even more. The NAU is not just an idea on paper or simply open dialogue-- it is being implemented right now through the SPP and the working groups it has spawned. Although we have had our share of victories, time is short, but we still have a chance to turn this thing around and stop the North American Union.

http://stoplying.ca/articles/07/july/070207dananau.php

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Should Canada merge its currency into that of the U.S.?

2007-06-29T19:58:05Z

By George Crowell
May 30/07
http://canadianactionparty.ca/cgi/page.cgi?zine=show&aid=593&_id=27

If Canada should allow its currency to be merged with that of the U.S., it
would surely lose its publicly owned Bank of Canada. Through the Bank of
Canada, which was established in 1935, the federal government has the power to
borrow money in huge quantities essentially interest-free, and to make such
interest-free funds available not only for its own use, but also for provincial
and municipal expenditures.

Should Canada merge its currency into that of the U.S.?

On The Current , May 28, there was discussion prompted by a comment last
week from David Dodge, Governor of the Bank of Canada, who said that a unified
currency with the U.S. is possible. In this discussion, with views for and
against this development, there was no mention of what many informed Canadians
see as the primary reason why Canada should keep its own distinctive currency,
and should never allow currency union with the U.S..

If Canada should allow its currency to be merged with that of the U.S., it
would surely lose its publicly owned Bank of Canada. Through the Bank of
Canada, which was established in 1935, the federal government has the power to
borrow money in huge quantities essentially interest-free, and to make such
interest-free funds available not only for its own use, but also for provincial
and municipal expenditures. Such borrowing enabled Canada to get out of the
Great Depression and to finance its participation in World War II. Continuance
of this practice until about 1975 played a key role in creating Canada's
post-war prosperity and in making possible our enviable social programs. As
federal governments have increasingly catered to the private commercial banks,
this practice has greatly declined. Government indebtedness with huge interest
payments has resulted, and our social programs, which, we are told, we can no
longer afford, have been under attack.

Our governments across Canada must presently give priority to paying more
than $60 billion each year out of our tax receipts for interest to private banks
and money-lenders. Through borrowing from the Bank of Canada this expense could
be vastly reduced. If we lose the Bank of Canada, we will lose this
extraordinary potentiality just at a time when public expenditures are
especially urgently needed to protect our environment from such dire threats as
global warming, and when our public infrastructure requires major repair and
rebuilding, to say nothing of all kinds of needs to strengthen our social
programs--especially medicare. We have underused and misused the Bank of
Canada. Rather than lose it altogether in a currency union with the U.S., we
need to revive its full usefulness in support of creative public policy.

We are told that borrowing from the Bank of Canada would be inflationary.
We recognize that inflation could occur if the money-creation powers of the
private banks were not restrained while the Bank of Canada again created a
larger portion of our money supply . Therefore we insist that the reserve
requirement for the private banks, which was surreptitiously eliminated in 1991,
be restored to the Bank Act. This would enable the federal government through
the Bank of Canada to reduce the amount of money that can be created by the
private banks while increasing the amount created by the Bank of Canada to meet
public needs. Even without using the Bank of Canada for interest-free loans, we
need the reserve requirement to help in the fight against inflation. At present
the only tool available is raisiing interest rates--which first augments
inflation before beating it down by driving the economy into recession. The
reserve requirement is a far more kindly method for resisting inflation.

Some of us for many years have been urging politicians, primarily at the
federal level, to resurrect the lending power of the Bank of Canada. Why is
there so little response on this crucial issue? Some prefer the system as it
is, some do not sufficiently understand the issue, some feel the issue is too
complicated for the public to understand, and some probably fear backlash from
the private banks. Now that the possibility of merging our currency into that
of the U.S. is increasingly advocated in the centres of power, it is urgent for
Canadians to understand clearly what they stand to lose--and what they could
gain. I hope that The Current and other CBC programs will facilitate thorough
discussion of this crucial issue.

Thank you.

George Crowell (a member of the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform,www.comer.org )
43-10 Rossmore Court
London, ON N6C 6A3
519-686-7522
georgecrowell@cogeco.ca

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Canada's Deep Integration Into a North American Union

2007-06-29T19:30:18Z

by Dana Gabriel
June 26/07

It makes no difference if it is a Liberal or Conservative government
in power because for the last 20 years plus both parties have been
pushing for the same agenda of deeper integration with the United
States. The same people who brought you the Canada-U.S. FTA and NAFTA
are busy creating a North American Union. The Signing of the Security
and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America would not have been
possible without the tireless work of the Canadian Council of Chief
Executives (CCCE) and the Independent Task Force on the Future of
North America, which was co-chaired by former Liberal deputy prime
minister John Manley. He is just one of many influential politicians
and business elites who are working towards deeper integration. Last
week, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, David Dodge, said that a
North American single currency was a real possibility. Both the FTA
and NAFTA have lead to the corporate takeover of Canada where power,
profit, and greed come before our best-interests. While other
countries are distancing themselves from the U.S., Canada is doing
the opposite. Defending Canadian sovereignty has been misinterpreted
by many as protectionism and anti-Americanism. The NAU agenda is
moving forward despite no mandate, or any awareness from the general
public. Deep integration and harmonization into an NAU could lead to
Canada losing control over its own natural resources. This agenda is
a full assault on Canadian institutions, it's culture, values, and
its national sovereignty.

The CCCE was founded in 1976 and is Canada's leading business
organization made up of 150 top executives. It is essentially a think
tank dealing with public policy, which has intimate connections to
both the Liberal and Conservative parties with many of their
recommendations being implemented. They were one of the leading
forces behind the development and promoting of the FTA and NAFTA and
have called for the reinvention of North American borders, while
pressuring the government to further merge our military and security
with the United States. In April of 2004, they released the paper,
"Building a 21st Century Canada-United States Partnership in North
America." It called for deeper North American integration and the
need for more U.S. bilateral deals. Many of the recommendations put
forth by the CCCE's own Security and Prosperity Initiative later
became part of the SPP. People like its Chief Executive and President
Thomas d'Aquino and John Manley have been hard at work, setting the
stage for a NAU. They would have us believe that enormous benefits
will be brought about through deeper integration. In a sense they are
right-- some Canadians will benefit, but it will be the elite and
multinational corporations, along with those who have connections--
not you or me. Some putting forth this agenda might even believe that
they are serving the best interests of all Canadians, but their
motivation is suspect and must be questioned.

After prime minister Jean Chretien stepped down in 2003, Manley
announced his intentions to run for the leadership of the Liberal
Party. He later dropped out, sensing defeat, and Paul Martin became
leader and prime minister. Manley retired from politics and did not
run in the 2004 federal election, but still had aspirations of one
day becoming leader and prime minister. He has always been a strong
proponent of deeper integration, and this has continued beyond his
political life. As the minister of foreign affairs, he is credited
with easing strained Canada-U.S. relations, and developed a good
working rapport with Colin Powell and Tom Ridge. He was given the
task of further securing Canada after the 9/11 attacks, and in 2001
was named Time Magazines "Canadian News Maker of the Year." In
December of 2001, he met with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge,
and the Canada-U.S. Smart Border Declaration, a 30-point plan, was
signed to ensure the secure flow of goods and low-risk travelers
across the border. Some of the recommendations were common standards
on biometric identifiers, shared custom data, and integrated border
and marine enforcement. In June of 2002, they both met again to
discuss the progress made.

In April of 2003, the Action Group on North American Security and
Prosperity was created to further advance the process of deeper
integration. The group was made up of many CEOs who met with Manley
and Ridge to discuss new initiatives. In April of 2004, the CCCE held
meetings in Washington D.C. to advance North American integration
with Manley in attendance along with many CEOs and Condoleeza Rice.
In October of 2004, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) launched
the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, co-chaired
by Manley with Thomas d'Aquino and Robert Pastor, considered by many
to be the "Father of the North American Union," as directors. In
attendance at many of the task force hearings were some high-level
Canadian politicians, including the public works minister Anne
McLellan. Many referred to its agenda as NAFTA plus. In March of
2005, Manley's task force released, "Creating a North American
Community," with many of its recommendations becoming part of the
SPP, also signed on the 23rd of that month. In May of that same year,
the CFR, in association with the CCCE, published the report "Building
a North American Community." It has been widely speculated that one
of the reasons that Manley did not run in the November 2006 Liberal
Leadership race was his further commitment to deeper integration.

In September of 2006, the North American Forum was held in Banff,
Alberta, Canada and was a follow-up to the CFR's sponsored
Independent Task Force on the Future of North America. There were no
press releases or journalists permitted at the meetings. Despite the
lack of transparency, Manley who took part in the discussions said it
was, "not part of a nefarious plan to yield sovereignty to the U.S.
It was just some informed private citizens and government officials
having a conversation." In spite of his best assurances, it is a big
deal when powerful, influential politicians, military leaders, and
corporate elites meet in private to discuss plans to further advance
a North American Union. The forum was co-chaired by former Alberta
premier Peter Lougheed. Also in attendance was the CCCE's president
Thomas d'Aquino, the minister of public safety Stockwell Day,
Canadian defense minister Gordon O'Connor, and former Liberal deputy
prime minister Anne McLellan, along with other prominent Canadians.
American heavy weights included then secretary of defense Donald
Rumsfeld, Robert Pastor, and George Shultz, who also co-chaired the
event. Discussions centered around the borders, immigration, a North
American energy strategy, national security, and the integration of
military command structures. They also discussed ways to keep the
agenda of deep integration secret. It is only because of documents
released through the Freedom of Information Act that we have this
knowledge. Ron Covais, an executive for Lockheed Martin who attended
the meeting, stated in reference to the SPP, "we've decided not to
recommend any things that would require legislative changes because
we won't get anywhere." It is through working groups and executive
agencies that deep integration into a NAU is being achieved. By
putting the power in the hands of bureaucrats, oversight is being
avoided, along with the scrutiny and debate legislation would create.
These meetings are a perfect illustration of the shear arrogance and
total disregard the global elite have for the people. This was a
turning point for many Canadians waking up to the NAU agenda-- it was
a realization that they were being betrayed by their own leaders.

The NAU agenda is stripping down sovereignty with the democratic
process and power being removed and handed over to the corporate
elite. Globalization is still very unpopular throughout the world as
many support national sovereignty. The global elite know that the NAU
will be a tough sell, but they are patient, confident, and committed
to this agenda to the bitter end. Deeper integration and further
deregulation and privatization will be devastating for most
Canadians, but will benefit the global elite. It is clear that some
in the Conservative government, including prime minister Stephen
Harper, support deeper integration. The obscure, but relevant
Canadian Action Party and its leader Connie Fogal have been busy
exposing the NAU. As of late, the NDP have been speaking out against
it as well, most notably it's trade critic, Peter Julian, who was
responsible for the recent hearings held on the SPP. The Green Party
also recently warned of the SPP and a hidden agenda for Canadian
water. The silence of the Liberals and Conservatives is traitorous.
Complacency is inexcusable, and even those not actively participating
in this process will be held responsible for the destruction of a
sovereign Canada. It is time for Canadian politicians to come clean
on where they stand on the North American Union.
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Excuse me, are you a threat to aviation security? Canada’s no-fly list

2007-06-29T03:58:27Z

Katie Black
June 26, 2007
ID TRAIL MIX

Picture this: you are traveling to an important conference in Ottawa, titled the Revealed “I”. While getting your boarding pass, the airline attendant asks for a piece of government-issued photo ID. You provide it and wait for him to smile and print your boarding card. He doesn’t smile. In fact, he looks concerned, makes a phone call and tells you to step aside. You are prohibited from boarding you flight because, in that moment, you were silently labeled “an immediate threat to civil aviation”. [1]

While this hypothetical will remain an incredulous story for most Canadians, it will realize for some over the course of the next year. [2] If your name, age and gender match that of an individual on Canada’s Specified Persons List, implemented on June 18th, 2007 as part of Transport Canada’s Passenger Protection Program, you might be barred from boarding an aircraft. Regulation [3] responsible for the program requires all airline carriers in Canada to screen passengers over the age of twelve [4] on domestic and international flights against those described on the List. Once a match is made, the airline carrier is obligated to contact the Minister of Transport or his authorized official and have him or her verify the individual’s identity and decide whether or not to permit boarding. If individuals find themselves on the list, they can have their case independently reviewed by applying to Transport Canada’s Office of Reconsideration (OoR). [5] If they remain unsatisfied, they can appeal the OoR decisions to the Federal Court, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP or the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

While this program superficially appears to further Canada’s goal of increasing aviation security, many concerns have been raised regarding the impact of the program’s design and implementation on privacy and anonymity in Canada. This ID Trail Mix will briefly survey the main concerns raised by such public interest groups as the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR-Canada). It will explore: i) the potential inadequacy of the Passenger Protection Program in light of forgery techniques, ii) concerns regarding how the list is compiled, iii) the potential for violations of Canadians’ privacy rights through the sharing of personal information with foreign governments, iv) the possibility for mistaken inclusion on the list and v) the potential that Canada’s no-fly list could lead to the targeting and profiling of racialized groups.

Forged Documents

It remains unclear how the Passenger Protection Program will get around the practical problem of forged documents. With ID cards so easily forged, how does asking for one reduce the threat of on-board terror? Moreover, are terrorists or other threatening individuals likely to fly under their own name? Speaking to this concern in an interview with CBC News, Barry Prentice, Director of the Transport Institute at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, commented, “I don’t think it’s going to help one bit. What terrorist is going to travel with their own name and passport? These people are going to steal or create a forged passport and identification if they’re going to do anything, anyway”. [6]

Also pertaining to the program’s efficacy, in 2005, the Privacy Commissioner submitted the following question to Transport Canada: “what studies, if any, has the department carried out to demonstrate that advance passenger information will be useful in identifying high-risk travelers”? Transport Canada provided the following response on their website, “the Passenger Protect program proposes to use a watchlist to prevent specified individuals from boarding flights based on practical global experience and risk assessment rather than specific studies”. According to Allen Kagedan, Chief of Aviation Security Policy for Transport Canada, such lists are increasing air travel safety as, “they do work”. However, when asked by reporters, he could not cite any specific instances of when it worked. “The problem with giving examples” he said, “is that they defeat security and also, ironically, defeat the privacy rights of those individuals”. [7]

How is the list compiled?

Does notification of one’s inclusion on the Specified Persons List also defeat security? It may because the list is not available to the public. [8] People can only find out if they are on the no-fly list once they are prevented from boarding their flight. [9] The wording of the regulation [10] is such that anyone who i) poses a threat to aviation security, ii) could endanger the security of any aircraft or aerodrome, or iii) the safety of the public, passengers or crew members would be placed on the list by the Passenger Protect Advisory Group [11]. This will result in a “dynamic” list, according to Mr. Kagedan, as intelligence agencies must re-assess their “reliable and vetted” security information every 30 days. [12] While it is clear that this would likely include “an individual who has been involved in a terrorist group [or] has been convicted of one or more serious and life-threatening crimes against aviation security”, [13] it is unclear if it would also include such people as Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer, who was placed on the American no-fly list because he had a rare form of tuberculosis. In the Canadian context, would a communicable disease constitute a threat to aviation security?

Will Canada’s no-fly list be shared with foreign governments?

The extent to which the regulation allows Canada to share information contained on its no-fly list with foreign governments is also unclear. According to the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Executive Summary of the Passenger Protection Program, “law enforcement and intelligence information on Specified Persons received from Canadian, or foreign or multilateral, law enforcement or security intelligence agencies” will be kept and gathered using the Passenger Protection Program. It will be used for the sole purpose of increasing transportation security. [14] Moreover, comments made by Brian Brant, who serves as Director of Security Policy for Transport Canada, during the Air India Inquiry presided over by former Supreme Court Justice Major, indicated that “names of Canadians on the forthcoming federal list could end up in the hands of foreign governments, whether or not Ottawa gives its official consent to sharing the information”. [15] While the list of names will only be initially released to commercial airlines, foreign governments could access the names without the consent of the Canadian government by going to the airlines. The lists could be accessed via the airlines that are based in the foreign country. “Should their national government require that information of them”, Brant testified at the inquiry, “that's up to them to decide what they want to do with that information. We recognize that possibility exists”. [16] As such information sharing, either voluntary or involuntary, between Canada and foreign governments is likely.

It wasn’t me: the possibility for mistaken inclusion on the list

While the new no-fly list may add the kind of excitement to one’s travel plans as experienced by Conservative MP John Williams - who was temporarily grounded because his name appeared on the American no-fly lists - it also means that many innocent people are going to be swept up in the list’s identity net. One need only look at how the American no-fly lists ballooned out of control. At one point, it contained more than 70, 000 names including those of civil libertarians, peace activists and most notably Senator Ted Kennedy. [17]

Although individuals who have been wrongfully identified on the Canadian list retain the right to reconsideration through the OoR process (see above), Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, warned that the list could become “a nightmare for ordinary Canadians”. [18]

On the bright side of things, one retains a statistically smaller chance of being on Canada’s no-fly list than on America’s. This is because fewer than 1,000 names are thought to be on Transport Canada’s Specified Persons list at the moment. [19] Advocates for CAIR-Canada, however, argue that this statistical good news will disproportionately apply to non-racialized groups. CAIR-Canada fears that Canada’s no-fly list has the potential to lead to the targeting and profiling of Muslims and Arabs in Canada.

The chill sets in: fears of racial profiling

People within Canadian Muslim and Arab communities already report that they disproportionately experience the effects of social and technological changes aimed at ensuring “national security”. In Faisal Babha’s article, “The Chill Sets In: National Security and the Decline of Equality Rights in Canada”, he writes that in a post-9/11 era “ensuring ‘national security’ has become a euphemism for ethnic and religious profiling, and that the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) has become a guise for the systematic targeting and demonization of Muslims and Arabs”. [20] While hard data indicating that Muslims are being systematically profiled by government agencies is challenging to acquire, [21] it is clear that “Muslims and Arabs in Canada have been thrust involuntarily into the spotlight of the national consciousness”. [22] The effects of the no-fly list are likely to intensify that light as “Muslims are already subject to increased scrutiny at airports” [23] and “among Muslims, there’s a great similarity in names and it’s very easy for names to be the same or similar”. [24] While this will practically translate into Muslims and Arabs being disproportionately mistaken for those on the list, it might also have the corollary effect of generally increasing the sense of insecurity and incidents of discrimination experienced by these populations. [25] As Faisal Babha wrote, “profiling is a simplistic response to a complex problem; it involves highlighting a specific characteristic about a person, unrelated to that person’s actual deeds, and extrapolating to reach a presumptive conclusion about the person’s intentions and probable conduct”. [26]

While fears of racial profiling are being voiced in relation to racialzed members of society, Jennifer Stoddart phrased the same concern of the use of one’s identity more generally. As she sees it, the problem is that the list exemplifies “the increasingly intrusive use of your identity in order to make decisions about you as an individual, [decisions] that are pretty drastic… Every time we go to the airport, are we going to expect to be challenged?” [27]

See original page for source links.

http://www.anonequity.org/weblog/archives/2007/06/excuse_me_are_you_a_threat_to.php

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The Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act Bill C-36

2007-06-29T02:07:52Z

From page 15-17
Crossing The Line: A Citizens' Inquiry on Canada-U.S. Relations
http://www.canadians.org/DI/documents/Crossing_the_Line_Report05.pdf

The purpose of Bill C-36, the Anti-Terrorism Act, was to combat terrorism by amending
the Criminal Code and various federal acts and by introducing changes with respect to
how charities are registered. Bill C-36 became law on December 18, 2001, just three
months after the September 11 terrorist attacks and two months after the U.S. passed
the USA PATRIOT Act. Among the federal laws modified by the Anti-Terrorism Act
are the Canada Evidence Act, the Official Secrets Act, and the Proceeds of Crime (money
laundering) Act.28

The definitions of “terrorism” and “participation in the activities of a terrorist
organization” introduced by Bill C-36 are broad and ambiguous. For example, Section
83.19 of the Criminal Code29 now states that:

83.19 (1) Everyone who knowingly facilitates a terrorist activity is guilty
of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding fourteen years.

Facilitation
(2) For the purposes of this Part, a terrorist activity is facilitated whether
or not:
(a) the facilitator knows that a particular terrorist activity is facilitated;
(b) any particular terrorist activity was foreseen or planned at the time it
was facilitated; or
(c) any terrorist activity was actually carried out.

This means that someone can be charged with facilitating a terrorist action without
even knowing such an action is being planned or even if it is not carried out. Section
83.01 of the Code defines “terrorism” as:

an act or omission, in or outside Canada, that is committed…for a political,
religious or ideological purpose…with the intention of intimidating the
public…with regard to its security, including its economic security, or
compelling a person, a government or an organization to do or to refrain
from doing any act…inside or outside Canada.

The Anti-Terrorism Act eases the restrictions imposed on intelligence and law
enforcement organizations concerning the obtaining of search and wiretapping orders.
The Act also provides these organizations with new powers, including the power to
detain an individual for up to 72 hours on the basis of mere suspicion, the power to list
the people and organizations who are suspected of being linked to terrorist groups
(which may sometimes lead to organizations losing their charitable status), and the
power to intercept the satellite communications of Canadians. They may exercise this
last power to intercept satellite communications, as long as they obtain a simple
authorization from the Minister of Defence. The Act also gives new intelligence powers
to the RCMP without requiring the creation of an accountability body to monitor the
use of these powers. All of these new powers can now be exercised to fight the vaguely
defined “terrorist threat.”

The Anti-Terrorism Act also makes secret trials mandatory in cases where an open trial
might threaten national security. Judges in public proceedings (for example, trials,
hearings in small claims court, rent review hearings) now have the authority to determine
whether sensitive information is being disclosed. If it is, the proceedings must be stopped
and moved to Federal Court. There, the hearing takes place in secret, without the presence
of the individual(s) involved.

This is what happened in the Maher Arar inquiry. After only three days of public
testimony, the hearings were suspended in July 2004. They then continued in private
because the government’s lawyers had invoked national security concerns.

Denis Barrette, a lawyer with the Ligue des droits et libertés, told the Citizens’ Inquiry
on Canada-U.S Relations that the Canadian government has still not demonstrated that
the Anti-Terrorism Act is necessary: “In three years, there were only a handful of instances
where the new provisions of the Criminal Code were used. The Anti-Terrorism Act is
primarily used for intimidation: if you don’t cooperate, authorities threaten you with a
preventative 72-hour detention before sending you to a judge, who will force you to
answer questions.”

So far, the Anti-Terrorism Act has been used to obtain search warrants against First
Nations activists (in Port Alberni, B.C., in 2002) and a journalist (Juliet O’Neill, in Ottawa
in January 2004). Mohammad Momin Khawaja of Ottawa is the only person so far who
has been arrested by invoking the Act. He was taken into custody in April 2004; at the
time of publication, he had still not been tried.

Canada could have adopted a temporary act to respond to the urgent situation created
by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Instead, the Canadian government adopted the
Anti-Terrorism Act, which permanently alters some of the fundamental principles of
Canadian criminal law. These include the presumption of innocence, public trials,
accountability, the right to remain silent, and the independence of the justice system. If
these changes are not reversed, the erosion of the civil liberties of Canadians will continue.

The Canadian government is currently reviewing the Anti-Terrorism Act. However, at
the time of publication, there was no indication that the government is planning to do
away with these controversial measures.

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US Officers could carry their guns across our border

2007-06-27T08:14:35Z

Officers could carry their guns across border

UNNATI GANDHI
Globe and Mail Update
June 26, 2007 at 1:18 AM EDT

The federal government is proposing to ease restrictions on foreign law-enforcement officers who carry weapons into Canada.

In a reciprocal agreement with the United States, the regulation would exempt officers, including police and air marshals, from a “foreign state” from having to obtain permits for side arms, according to a posting on the government's official publication, the Canada Gazette and reported on CTV News Monday night.

The changes could mean that both domestic and foreign officers could enter and leave Canada with their weapons without having to get an import and export permit. Currently, police officers from other countries can bring weapons into Canada only in extreme circumstances, such as when accompanying a head of state on an official visit.

While some say the regulation would lead to a safer border, others suggest it could have broad implications for gun control in Canada and could lead to dangerous situations.

The proposed changes could open the rules to wide interpretations, Liberal MP Dan McTeague said.

“[This] opens the door to a number of real concerns that I don't think police or politicians or Canadians have had a chance to look into,” he said.

“Issues of sovereignty, issues of the kind of guns and duty weapons that are being brought in, may very well be inconsistent with the laws we have on prohibition of weapons.”

A Foreign Affairs spokesman would not comment on the change Monday night.

Paul Cellucci, former U.S. ambassador to Canada, said the regulation will make the border safer.

“If you're working on a joint team and you're chasing some criminal, you're not going to be dropping your weapon every time you go across the border,” he said.

“We're working together, we're going after the same bad guys. It's in our national interest to stop the terrorists, to stop the smugglers.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070626.wguns26/BNStory/National/home

So, fewer and fewer Canadians may own firearms, or are dissuaded from buying them due to the bureaucracy, but armed US agents may waltz in here and assert authority?

What does this tell us about the state of Canada's sovereignty ?

"A Foreign Affairs spokesman would not comment on the change Monday night."

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Deep integration - TILMA and SPP to bring in rules to let corporations challenge our laws

2007-06-22T22:24:21Z

Conservatives quietly advance plans that could deregulate Canada and bring our energy under US control.

Under the slogan "deep integration," the Harper Conservatives are working quietly with conservative allies in the US and Mexico to challenge local and national regulations and bring energy supplies under US control.

Taking the work of the Liberals before them several steps further, the Conservatives are promoting trade deals that could make it possible for domestic corporations to challenge laws they don't like in other provinces through the Interprovincial Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA). At the same time, they are actively promoting the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The two are related, and each, according to critics, would have the effect of extending the provisions of deals like NAFTA in giving businesses the ability to contest laws they claim impede their ability to compete.

The SPP broke into the news when the House of Commons International Trade Committee was shut down in May because its chairman, Tory MP Leon Benoit, blocked discussion about it and stormed out of a committee meeting. Benoit was objecting to the testimony of Professor Gordon Laxer of the University of Alberta's Parkland Institute. Laxer told the committee the SPP identifies North American "energy security" as a priority, and that, "even though Canada has no plan to protect its own energy supplies, the accord would commit it to ensuring America's," according to a report by Harry Bruce in The Peterborough Examiner. "Thus, if Canada agreed to the integration of energy supplies across North America, Canadians might well be left 'to freeze in the dark.'"

John Foster, principal researcher at the North-South Institute asked a conference on the subject "Are we in fact sleeping through a corporate coup d'état?" according to reporter Brian Adeba in Straight Goods.

According to the article, "Last year's creation of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) to enhance the work of the SPP will further undermine Canadian sovereignty, because it emphasizes placing Canada and the US under a single command and will facilitate greater American access to Canadian oil", Mr Foster said. "The NACC was created to advise SPP leaders on competitiveness issues. Nine of its ten Canadian members are also members of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (formerly the Business Council on National Issues, chief advocates of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement).

"But just like the SPP, there's a lot of secrecy behind the NACC", Mr Foster continued. On the same subject he noted that "when NACC officials met last fall in Banff, Alta, a leaked communication policy from the council advised officials not to talk to the media, and if they do, they must downplay the meeting by saying it was a gathering of non-governmental-organizations."

Associated with SPP is TILMA, which British Columbia's Liberal premier Gordon Campbell and Alberta's Conservative premier Ed Stelmach have already signed and which Stephen Harper and Trade Minister Maxime Bernier are promoting to other provinces. The SPP came to light because activists started to dig into TILMA, which came into effect on April 1 of this year. TILMA seems to have been a provincial intiative, signed by Ralph Klein and Gordon Campbell, but the federal Conservatives now are promoting it to other provinces."

According to the Council of Canadians, it "allows corporations and individuals to sue provincial governments for any provincial or municipal government measure that they feel 'restricts or impairs' their investment (ie their profits). Under TILMA, even measures designed to protect the environment and public health are vulnerable to attack from corporate lawsuits with compensation penalties as high as $5 million."

These aspects of the agreement are downplayed by government officials, who stress the deal's purported benefits in terms of interprovincial transportation, especially of energy and labour mobility. The deal's advocates have not pointed, however, to examples of any significant mobility barriers between the provinces.

TILMA promotes the US "War on Terror" with its emphasis on hefty funding for security projects — $430 million was recently announced for such purposes by the Harper government. Recently, Sarnia, Ontario Mayor Jim Bradley attracted attention by saying his city would decline the money, saying he didn't see terrorism as much of a threat to city buses but that his city could use federal funding for other infrastructure. As the Sudbury Star said in an editorial, "Spending $160,000 on a consultant's report to tell us how to terror-proof Sarnia Transit would have been a colossal waste of money."

Opponents of deep integration could use the Sarnia case to show how these plans are changing Canada's priorities and bringing them in line with George W Bush's disproved crusade.

http://www.harperindex.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=0056

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Connie Fogal speaks out on the Canadian No Fly List

2007-06-22T05:36:09Z

In an interview with corbettreport.com, Connie Fogal of the Canadian Action Party talks about Canada's No Fly List, to be implemented on June 18th. For the full interview, please visit http://www.corbettreport.com or watch this youtube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQTU9-essQ

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Innocents could be grounded by no-fly list

2007-06-22T05:31:38Z

Updated Mon. Jun. 18 2007 8:20 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

Canada's controversial no-fly list takes effect today, but critics say the anti-terror move will do more harm than good by grounding innocent travellers.

The no-fly list is based on the U.S.-model, but the experience for air travellers south of the border has been turbulent.

"We are not aware that any arrests have ever been made. What we are aware of is a lot of confusion, a lot of mistaken identity," security consultant Michel Juneau-Katsuya told CTV's Canada AM on Monday."

"A lot of people who unfortunately have a similar name to people on the list have found themselves interrogated for several hours, and despite all the identity and other cards that they have, had difficulties to justify that they were somebody else."

More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. no-fly list, including pre-schoolers, peace activists and -- for a time -- at least two Canadian MPs and U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.

Kennedy was stopped numerous times at airports and questioned because his name appeared on the secret government list. It took more than three weeks to have his name removed.

"There is no quantifiable evidence to show a link between having this list and ensuring the safety of air travellers or air safety," Ayman al-Yassini, of the Canadian Foundation for Race Relations, told Canada AM.

"On the contrary, all that we have are anecdotes and stories and more anecdotes coming out from the (United) States and from Canada here that the margin of error on this list is so high that it makes it futile and quite useless."

CSIS and the RCMP have compiled the Canadian list, which is designed to keep terror suspects off commercial flights in this country. The criteria include:

* A person who is or has been involved in a terrorist group;
* A person who has been convicted of life-threatening crimes against aviation; or
* A person who has been convicted of one or more serious offences who may attack an air carrier.

Passengers over the age of 18 must carry one piece of government-issue photo ID or two pieces of non-photo ID. Starting Sept. 18, anyone who appears older than 12 must be carrying ID.

If a passenger's name pops up, the ticket agent will ask for permission to access their personal information from a database. They will cross-reference that person's date of birth, address and passport number. If their information differs from that of the preson on the list, they'll be free to fly.

Transport Canada won't reveal how many names are on the list. People won't find out they're on the list until they show up at the airport.

The information will be shared with foreign agencies and governments, which invades people's privacy, Juneau-Katsuya said.

"In a way we are sentencing individuals in a way he or she may not be aware of. Their life will be affected and there are serious consequences for citizens and residents in this country."

Juneau-Katsuya questions the effectiveness of the no-fly list and sees problems arising in court.

"I think it'll be very easy for any lawyers to probably dismantle this in court because basically what we're facing is an administrative sentence that has been given by bureaucrats on people we suspect might be sort of problematic or we suspect may cause some trouble," he says. "That goes against our (justice) system."

Canada's list is supposed to be limited in terms of names, perhaps no more than 1,000. But some civil liberties groups are worried it might eventually be merged with the U.S. list.

Some human rights groups say the measure could lead to racial or religious profiling, while Yassini believes the list could create another Maher Arar-like case.

Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was shipped to Syria by U.S. authorities in 2002 after he was taken into custody at a New York airport. Syrian authorities tortured him during his 10 months in captivity, and he made a false confession to terrorist involvement.

An inquiry fully exonerated Arar, but the U.S. continues to keep Arar on a no-fly list.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070617/nofly_list_070618/20070618?hub=Canada&s_name=

Gov't to press ahead with 'no-fly' list: Day
CTV.ca News Staff
Updated: Mon. Jun. 18 2007 9:59 PM ET

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says the Conservative government will press ahead with its new 'no-fly' list no matter what critics say.

"This isn't people who've jaywalked, this isn't people whose library cards are overdue. These are people who are known to be very serious threats against airlines or airline security," he told CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live on Monday.

"If you fit that category, you won't be able to get on a plane, and rightly so."

The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (C-CAIR) has called for the Specified Persons list to be scrapped until some of its fundamental flaws are fixed.

"For a list that so severely impacts the civil liberties and mobility rights of the people -- that should be debated in Parliament," said Sameer Zuberi, the group's spokesman.

"The potential for abuse in this case is massive," said Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon.

The list took effect on Monday. There were no reported cases of anyone being turned away from a flight because they were on the list.

CSIS and the RCMP have compiled the list. The criteria for listing on it include:

* A person who is or has been involved in a terrorist group;
* A person who has been convicted of life-threatening crimes against aviation; or
* A person who has been convicted of one or more serious offences who may attack an air carrier.

Passengers over the age of 18 must carry one piece of government-issue photo ID or two pieces of non-photo ID. Starting Sept. 18, anyone who appears older than 12 must be carrying ID.

If a passenger's name pops up, the ticket agent will ask for permission to access their personal information from a database. They will cross-reference that person's date of birth, address and passport number. If their information differs from that of the person on the list, they'll be free to fly.

Transport Canada won't reveal how many names are on the list. People won't find out they're on the list until they show up at the airport.

C-CAIR fears the list could lead to racial and religious profiling and the blacklisting of innocent people.

"There's going to be mistakes made and people are going to be treated differently regardless of the fact that they haven't been proven to have done anything wrong," Greenspon said.

James Neal Monaghan has already had problems getting on flights in Canada and to the U.S.

He shares the same name as a reported IRA bomb maker.

"They've not said I'm a terrorist. They won't tell me anything about why this is happening," he said.

Monaghan would like to know if his name will be on the new no-fly list.

There are several appeal steps to getting removed from the list, if one feels they have been wrongfully included.

Security consultant Michel Juneau-Katsuya questions the effectiveness of the no-fly list and sees problems arising in court.

"I think it'll be very easy for any lawyers to probably dismantle this in court because basically what we're facing is an administrative sentence that has been given by bureaucrats on people we suspect might be sort of problematic or we suspect may cause some trouble," he told CTV. "That goes against our (justice) system."

Canada's list is supposed to be limited in terms of names, perhaps no more than 1,000. But some civil liberties groups are worried it might eventually be merged with the U.S. list.

With files from The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20070617/nofly_list_070618/20070618/?hub=Canada&subhub=PrintStory

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"Atlantica" will harm Canadian economy

2007-06-22T04:51:22Z

Atlantica will harm Canadian economy says Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians, is speaking in Halifax today (June 13/07) to warn Atlantic Canadians of the dangers of Atlantica – a proposal by the Atlantic Provinces Chamber of Commerce (APCC) and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) to integrate the easternmost provinces with northeastern United States.

“This scheme will give the United States greater access to Canadian resources without benefiting Canadians,” says Barlow.

Local union representatives have stated that there is no advantage to the local economy when unrefined oil, gas and other materials are sent to the United States to be refined by American workers.

U.S. business interests will be central to this agenda given that just this week the Atlantic Provinces Chamber of Commerce appointed American business executive Jonathan Daniels as its chairman.

The Council of Canadians warns that Atlantica is part of a larger agenda led by corporations to integrate the economies of Canada, the United States and Mexico known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership of Canada (SPP). All three governments have confirmed that they will be using the SPP to further the Atlantica agenda.

The Council of Canadians is asking Atlantic Canadians to speak out against this regional integration plan that will weaken Canada’s ability to protect jobs, natural resources and the public interest.

http://www.canadians.org/media/DI/2007/13-June-07.html

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The Canada Post v. UPS NAFTA ruling

2007-06-22T04:43:24Z

Canadian Dimension
Marc Lee
June 14/07

The Globe’s story, Canada Post NAFTA win sets precedent, for UPS vs the government of Canada with respect to Canada Post, is a bit misleading. It comes across as “see, those whiners about investor-state were wrong all along”:

Chapter 11 was controversial from NAFTA’s inception because critics charged it would allow foreign investors to challenge, and alter, government policies and measures. But as the UPS decision shows, the arbitrators hired to solve NAFTA disputes are narrowing — not expanding — the rights of foreign investors under the 1992 trade deal between the three countries.

Alas, it is not so simple.

The ruling is indeed good news. A UPS success would have set a dangerous precedent for many other public services and Crown corporations. It would have opened a line of attack that could be used to challenge the viability of integrated public monopolies. Secondly, the fact that the case took seven years demonstrates that there must have been some serious politicking in the bachground, and that investor-state cases are not the instant full-nelson that was thought to be the case.

In the Globe article, trade lawyer Lawrence Herman says:

“It essentially restricts the scope of Chapter 11 and limits the kinds of cases that investors can pursue against [NAFTA] governments in the future,” Mr. Herman said. “I think this will undoubtedly have a further dampening effect on the enthusiasm of investors to challenge states” under NAFTA.

The UPS ruling comes on the heels of another high-profile case that was lost, when BC-based Methanex sued the US government for close to US$1 billion, because the state of California banned Methanex’s product, MTBE, a gasoline additive that is leaching into California groundwater. This case prompted NAFTA ministers to issue a declaration in 2001 to clarify the intent of Chapter 11. A final case occurred when US-based Metalclad sued the Mexican government and won, because a state government declared a toxic waste dump owned by the company to be an ecological reserve. This was a classic expropriation because the federal government had given the company the permit to go ahead with the dump. But even though Metalclad won, what was significant was that the $700 million they were seeking was reduced to an award to $17 million, a figure more in line with lost economic value.

All of this is reassuring that the NAFTA’s investor-to-state rules may be used to slice-and-dice regulations at will. But there are many other cases in the queue (summary by Scott Sinclair here), and we have no way of knowing how much the “chill” cast by Chapter 11 has affected the development of new regulations. And in spite of the Globe headline, international trade panels are NOT bound by precedent, unlike the domestic courts. There are also some details about the case that suggest it was on flimsy grounds to begin with. The UPS case based on using Chapter 11, Investment, to claim a violation of Chapter 15, Competition Policy, Monopolies and State Enterprises. Chapter 15 is devoted to defining restrictions on state-designated monopolies (whether public or private) and state enterprises (such as Crown Corporations). What follows is drawn from a 2003 paper I did with Charles Morand on competition policy in international trade agreements:

The NAFTA does not prohibit a Party from creating or maintaining a monopoly or state enterprise, although creating one would likely require compensation under the Investment chapter of the NAFTA if actions by Canada, for example, affected the interests of a US or Mexican company. This situation could arise if public health care in Canada were to be expanded to new areas such as prescription drugs or dental care. US private health insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies with a presence in Canada would likely use Chapter 11 of NAFTA (the investor-state provisions of the Investment chapter) to sue for billions in compensation for lost business.

There are a number of important limitations and obligations with regard to designated monopolies and state enterprises in the Chapter, ostensibly to guard against anti-competitive behaviours. Article 1502 ensures that monopolies act “in accordance with commercial considerations”; provide “non-discriminatory treatment” to investments, goods and service providers of other Parties; and do not use their monopoly position to engage in anticompetitive practices in other markets in a way that affects the investment of another Party (procurement by government agencies is exempted from this provision). Article 1503 ensures that state enterprises provide non-discriminatory treatment in the sale of its goods and services.

These provisions have some significant implications for public enterprises. One example of trade challenge facilitated by the NAFTA is postal services. The US courier company UPS is suing the government of Canada under Chapter 11 for US$160 million in damages, arguing that the Crown corporation is subsidizing its express delivery service through its regular letter infrastructure, thereby obstructing UPS’s investments in Canada. The case is based in part on provisions of Chapter 15, although UPS is reading in more of Chapter 15 than the text of Chapter 11 specifies. UPS has a long list of complaints about Canada Post’s alleged anti-competitive practices, and is deliberately using the anti-monopoly provisions of Chapter 15 to force Canada Post to either segregate its courier activities or to get out of the courier business altogether.

If you are still reading, the point is that this case may not be precedent-setting at all, but may have been thrown out on a technicality, like the DNA evidence getting tainted in the process of collection.

http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/06/15/1168/

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(TILMA) Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement

2007-06-22T04:07:31Z

B.C.-Alberta free trade pact puts investors first and the public last

On April 1, 2007, a new free trade pact came into effect between Alberta and B.C. It's called the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) and it will have a devastating effect on local democracy, public health and the environment. While currently confined to Western Canada, provincial governments in Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and the Maritimes have all shown an interest in signing on. This makes TILMA a fight we have to wage locally, provincially and nationally.

TILMA was signed by the premiers of Alberta and B.C., without public consultation or legislative debate, in April 2006. The agreement allows corporations and individuals to sue provincial governments for any provincial or municipal government measure they feel "restricts or impairs" their investment (i.e. their profits). Under TILMA, even measures designed to protect the environment and public health are vulnerable to attack from corporate lawsuits with compensation penalties as high as $5-million.

Not only was TILMA not debated by either provincial legislature, but municipalities and other local governments weren't even consulted before it was signed. In fact, cities and towns across B.C. and Alberta are just now coming to realize how much democratic control they will lose under TILMA, and many are fighting to have municipal government action exempt from the agreement's dangerously broad reach.

We know that other provinces have shown an interest in signing TILMA. We know that the 2007 federal budget plugged the agreement by name and that Industry Minister Maxime Bernier sees it as inspiration for a renewed push to harmonize provincial regulations across Canada -- and possibly beyond. Some U.S. states have shown an interest in also signing TILMA, which would lead to massive deregulation in Canada, as we harmonize policies with the U.S.

Seen in that light, TILMA becomes an issue of democracy and of deep integration with the United States.

Opposition to the far-reaching free trade pact continues to grow thanks to intense local action from chapter activists in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. One enormously successful tactic has been to speak with municipal governments directly about the dangers of TILMA. Citizens in Alberta and B.C. have also targeted their MLAs to demand the provincial governments tear up TILMA.

http://www.canadians.org/DI/issues/TILMA/index.html

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Council of Canadians supports vote to exclude water from NAFTA

2007-06-22T03:04:18Z

June 6, 2007

Council of Canadians supports vote to exclude water from NAFTA

The Council of Canadians congratulates all members of parliament who voted to exclude water from the North American Free Trade Agreement on June 05, 2007.

The motion was passed in the House of Commons by a vote of 134 to 108. Tabled by the Standing Committee on International Trade, the motion recommends that the Federal government “begin talks with its American and Mexican counterparts to exclude water from the scope of NAFTA.”

“We have been warning the government for years about the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada’s water,” says Maude Barlow, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. Barlow spoke to the Standing Committee on International Trade last month about the need for a national water policy that would ban bulk water exports to the United States.

“We are proud of our elected officials for taking the responsibility to protect Canada’s water,” says Barlow. “We now expect our government to take the House’s direction on this matter despite the fact that all Conservative Party members voted against the motion.”

Opposition parties pushed the motion forward in response to a leaked document obtained by the Council of Canadians revealing that bulk water exports were being discussed at a closed-door trinational meeting involving the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States within the framework of the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

http://www.canadians.org/media/water/2007/06-June-07.html

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Bulk Water Exports

2007-06-22T03:01:52Z

In April 2007, the Council of Canadians obtained a leaked document produced by a Washington think tank, revealing that business and government leaders in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are actively discussing bulk water exports. They met in Calgary on April 27, 2007 to discuss the issue in a closed-door meeting as part of a larger discussion on North American integration.

Titled the “North American Future 2025 Project,” the initiative calls for a series of “closed-door meetings” on North American integration dealing with a number of highly contentious issues including bulk water exports, a joint security perimeter and a continental resource pact.

The Council of Canadians held an “open-door” meeting in Calgary on April 25, to discuss the looming threats to bulk water posed by North American integration. The meeting brought together key civil society actors and the general public to discuss and share concerns with the process and content of closed-door meetings.

Among the participants in this roundtable on bulk water exports were Maude Barlow, Ralph Pentland, CUPE Alberta, Sierra Club Canada, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, the Pembina Institute, Eau Secours and Public Interest Alberta.

The groups hope their counter-meeting will raise awareness about the impacts of North American integration on natural resources and prepare Canadians to oppose upcoming integration talks.

http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/policy/exports.html

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Canada's No-Fly List is Now in Effect! June 18/07

2007-06-19T02:34:25Z

"WILL YOU BE ON IT?"

Kim Bolan,
The Vancouver Sun,
Thurs, June 14, 2007,

VANCOUVER - Air Indiainquiry commissioner John Major yesterday ordered Canada's privacy commissioner to appear before him aftershe publicly criticized the no-fly list being implemented next week.

Mr. Major said his inquiry was earlier informed by the office of Jennifer Stoddart that she had nothing to say related to the mandate of his commission into the June 23, 1985 Air India bombing and subsequent investigation.

But Mr. Major said Ms. Stoddart then gave a wide-ranging media interview in which she commented on testimony at the inquiry last week about the implementation on June 18 of a Canadian no-fly list.

Under the no-fly list, which takes effect for all domestic and international flights, anyone deemed a threat will be prevented from boarding.

Mr. Major said Ms. Stoddart should have made her comments in evidence at the Air India inquiry and not to a reporter.

He issued a subpoena for her to appear today.

Ms. Stoddart told CanWest News Service on June 7 that the controversial list could become "quite a nightmare" for Canadians

"Every time we go to the airport, do we expect to be challenged? That may be the new world," she said.

She also said she was surprised when a Transport Canada official testified before Mr. Major that the list could end up in the hands of foreign governments if their state-owned airlines pass it on to them.

Mr. Major has expressed impatience several times during the inquiry when agencies or companies have expressed reluctance, or declined entirely, to testify.

He said some people do not understand what a royal commission is and that he has the power to compel their testimony.

An Air Canada official is scheduled to testify today, but only after Mr. Major threatened to issue a subpoena.

He also issued a subpoena yesterday for a representative of the International Air Transport Association to appear this week. The IATA, which represents airlines, had told inquiry lawyers that its representative would send a written submission, but would prefer not to testify.

But IATA chief executive officer Giovanni Bisignani appeared at a conference in Vancouver last week at which he discussed international aviation security post 9/11 -- the exact topic Mr. Major wanted the agency to testify about at the inquiry.

The inquiry resumed yesterday after a week-long break and continues to hear evidence about the current state of air security.

© The Ottawa Citizen 2007

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2deb98a2-c4bc-487f-b6d8-8b9ac014d3bf

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Yummy! More pesticide

2007-06-17T04:34:27Z

Check out this site to send a message to Parliament
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May 25, 2007

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Dear RightOnCanada Supporter,

It’s hard to believe, but the Harper government, dedicated to ever greater integration of Canada into the US, wants to “harmonize” the types and levels of pesticide residue allowed on fruits and vegetables and in dairy products with those of the US and Mexico.

It’s part of plans being made behind closed doors to streamline Canadian standards with often lower U.S. standards, instead of improving our standards to those adopted by the European Union.

Our government apparently sees regulations to protect public health as a “free trade irritant.”

And pesticides are just the beginning. Some 300 regulatory regimes are going through the same race-to-the-bottom process under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership - so-called “deep integration” - signed by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

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Yummy! More pesticide
Editorial, The Edmonton Journal
Wed 09 May 2007

For a minority government eager to burnish its environmental and centrist credentials, the two Monday announcements were astonishing: Alberta’s oilsands will be exempted from certain emissions requirements placed on other heavy polluters, and pesticide regulations for fruits and vegetables are being relaxed to fit with lower U.S. standards.

By exempting oilsands plants from new limits on some of the most worrisome smog-causing pollutants, particularly nitrogen oxide, Stephen Harper’s government gives the impression it was never serious about the clean air agenda it tried to push as an alternative to the Kyoto accord.

It would be one thing to grandfather older industries that might have trouble reaching more stringent emissions levels in a short period of time, but the oilsands industry is one in which new, more efficient and cleaner technologies are constantly being developed.

Letting it off the hook sends too many bad political signals to the rest of Canada: that Alberta is special; that polluters needn’t strive to be cleaner; that it’s OK to pollute the North; and that good lobbying trumps good environmental policy.

And similar signals were sent by a decision to “harmonize” the amounts of pesticide residues allowed on fruits and vegetables in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Yes, the move was done under the auspices of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Both the U.S. and Mexico tend to have higher limits because there are more pests to contend with in warmer climes.

But the memories of most Canadians are probably not as short as the government apparently believes. When the original Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the subsequent NAFTA were being negotiated during the Mulroney years, Canadians were assured that when standards were in conflict, the highest would prevail.

Remember being repeatedly promised that there would be “no rush to the bottom” for environmental standards?

Well, don’t look now, but it appears “down” is the current heading.

Health Canada officials downplay the changes, saying the new rules are largely irrelevant since most producers use only a fraction of the amount of pesticides they did when the standards were established. But that only further raises suspicions, for wouldn’t it make more sense to raise standards to reflect current usage in NAFTA countries than to simply drop them to the lowest prevailing among the “three amigos”?

As understanding grows of the health risks of persistent organic pollutants — chemical compounds that are found in at least nine common pesticides, and that accumulate on plants, in water, in the soil and, over the years, in humans and other animals — the only reasonable action of the government would be to press for their reduced use.

Who benefits if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency relies more on U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors to do their work? What legal recourse is there if, down the line, something gets missed and toxins find their way into the Canadian food system?

The Harper government needs to step back from fast-tracked talks with the U.S. on a Security and Prosperity Partnership and convey to the other side that, while harmonizing standards is a good idea, dropping them to the lowest common denominator is not.

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Canada plans to raise pesticide residue limits
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
Tue 08 May 2007
Kelly Patterson

OTTAWA — Think those grapes look suspiciously dusty?

Better break out the veggie-scrubbers: Canada is set to raise its limits on pesticide residues on fruit and vegetables for hundreds of products.

The move is part of an effort to harmonize Canadian pesticide rules with those of the United States, which allows higher residue levels for 40 per cent of the pesticides it regulates.

Differences in residue limits, which apply both to domestic and imported food, pose a potential “trade irritant,” said Richard Aucoin, chief registrar of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, which sets Canada’s pesticide rules.

However, Canada will only raise its limits “where this poses no risks,” he stressed.

U.S. pesticide residue limits are often higher because the country’s warmer climate means it is plagued by more pests, Aucoin said.

Canadian caps are higher in only 10 per cent of cases, he explained, adding these may be lowered under the harmonization plan. Aucoin said Canada won’t be raising its limits for all of the cases where its rules are stricter, but “will likely be asked to raise them” for cases now being identified as priorities by growers.

The agency is reviewing its limits on a case-by-case basis, he said.

But Canada should never lower it standards in the name of harmonization, said David Boyd, an environmental lawyer and author of a 2006 study of international pesticide regulations.

“We should look to equal or surpass the best in the world, not only measure ourselves against the U.S.,” where regulations are weaker than in jurisdictions such as the European Union, he said.

Canadian regulators and their U.S. counterparts have been working to harmonize pesticide regulations since 1996, as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Now the effort is being fast-tracked as an initiative under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a wide-ranging plan to streamline regulatory and security protocols across North America.

The SPP’s 2006 report identified stricter residue limits as “barriers to trade.”

Boyd’s report, published by the B.C.-based David Suzuki Foundation, raised concerns about the levels of pesticide residue allowed both in the U.S. and Canada.

Comparing 40 U.S. limits with those set by Canada, the European Union, Australia and the World Health Organization, he found the U.S. had the weakest rules for more than half of the pesticide uses studied.

In some cases the differences were dramatic: The U.S. allows 50 times more vinclozolin on cherries as the E.U., and 100 times as much lindane on pineapples.

Canada fared no better: For permethrin on leaf lettuce and spinach, the Canadian and U.S. limit was 400 times higher than in Europe, and the Canadian cap on methoxychlor was 1,400 times the European limit.

Both countries also allow pesticides that have been banned not only in Europe but also in some developing countries, Boyd noted.

Methamidophos, for example, is permitted in Canada but banned in Indonesia and other developing nations, he found. The pesticide is now being re-evaluated in Canada.

Aucoin said residue limits are set according to exacting standards in Canada, adding differences in ecosystems and patterns of use can account for the variation from country to country.

Raising the limits “will not change the amount of pesticides coming into the country,” he said, noting the residue levels on imported produce are usually well below even the Canadian limits.

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The Plan to Disappear Canada

2007-06-17T03:31:40Z

Thanks to Sunflower Rae
http://tribes.tribe.net/canadausdeepintegration

'Deep integration' comes out of shadows.
By Murray Dobbin
Published: June 8, 2007

If the machinations going on in this country regarding so-called "deep integration" were instead a communist conspiracy to take over the country (you will, of course, have to try hard to imagine this) the news media would be blaring the story.

Pundits would pontificate, editorialist would erupt, security forces would be unleashed.

Instead, a virtual conspiracy to make the country disappear through assimilation into the U.S. gets barely a mention.

But news of the scheme -- formally called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) -- is finally breaking out of the secret chambers of the ruling elite and the federal government. This is both good news and bad. It's good that ordinary citizens are finally getting a glimpse of the betrayal of their country. The news is bad because it reflects just how much of this scheme is already being implemented.

Given the meetings of CEOs and politicians to advance the scheme politically, as well as all that must go into its actual implementation, there is simply too much activity to keep secret.

Ten dots to connect

Here are 10 developments in the plan to disappear Canada.

1) Pesticides 'harmonized.' The most thoroughly reported story (though even this did not go much beyond the CanWest chain) was the revelation that Canada was about to "harmonize" its regulations, setting limits for pesticide residue on fruits and vegetables. In 40 per cent of the cases, the U.S. allows for higher levels. Richard Aucoin, chief registrar of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, which sets Canada's pesticide levels, said that Canada's higher levels were a "trade irritant."

The downgrading of health protection had been a NAFTA initiative, but is being "fast-tracked" as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Some 300 regulatory regimes are currently going through the same process.

2) Tory tirade. The next story that broke through the wall of media silence reported on the paranoid reaction of the Harper Conservatives to any criticism of the SPP. The occasion was hearings of the Commons International Trade Committee into the SPP, forced by the NDP.

Gordon Laxer, head of Alberta's Parkland Institute, was testifying on the energy implications of the SPP, warning that eastern Canada could end up "freezing in the dark." He had barely started when the chair of the committee, Conservative MP Leon Benoit, demanded that Laxer halt his "irrelevant" testimony. The Committee members overruled Benoit -- who promptly (and illegally) adjourned the meeting and stomped out. The NDP and Liberal members nonetheless continued without him.

3) Council of corporate power. The SPP initiative began in earnest back in 2002 with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (formerly the BCNI), the most powerful corporate body in the country. It continues it leadership role, but does not promote the scheme just in its own name. It instead has helped create several supportive bodies that now help drive the agenda. Included in these are the North American Competitive Council (NACC), which includes CEOs of the largest North American corporations, and which institutionalizes the exclusively corporate nature of the agreement. The NACC is the only advisory group to the three NAFTA/SPP governments.

4) Secretive summit. The NACC at least is public. But much of what happens in building the elite consensus for deep integration is done in absolute secrecy or very privately, away from the prying eyes of the media. The most secretive of these was held last year from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs. As The Tyee reported, the gathering was sponsored by something called the North American Forum* and it was attended by some of the most powerful members of the North American ruling elite.

Attendees, according to a leaked list that could not be confirmed, included Donald Rumsfeld, George Schultz (former U.S. Secretary of State), General Rick Hillier, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor and Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day. The media was not informed of the meeting and it was first revealed by the weekly Banff Crag & Canyon.

Stockwell Day refused to even confirm he was there, but said that even if he was, it was a "private" meeting that he would not comment on. There is no better indication that these meetings, and the SPP itself, constitute a parallel governing structure -- unaccountable to any democratic institution or the public.

5) 'No fly' coordination. Canada will have its own "no-fly" list just like our U.S. "partner."

As the Council of Canadians pointed out: "The no-fly list is very much a Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative. 'The SPP Report to Leaders, August 2006' outlines 105 SPP initiatives. Initiative #93 states, 'Develop, test, evaluate and implement a plan to establish comparable aviation passenger screening, and the screening of baggage and air cargo (for North America).'"

Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has raised a number of concerns about the plan including the fact that the list will be shared with the U.S., that "false positives" are a virtual certainty, and that there is no evidence put forward by the government that the list will improve airline security.

6) Bye, bye Canadian dollar? David Dodge, the head of the Bank of Canada, told a Chicago audience that a single currency for North America "is possible." That would see a big chunk of Canadian sovereignty and the ability to guide the economy through monetary policy go out the window. It's not the first time Dodge has mused about abandoning the Canadian dollar - or deep integration.

7) Water and oil giveaways. The deep integrationists clearly see Canadian water as a North American resource, not a Canadian resource. At yet another very private meeting, held in Calgary on April 27th under the auspices of yet another forum, it was made clear that water is on the table for negotiation.

Discussion of bulk "water transfers" and diversions took place at a Calgary meeting of the North American Future 2025 Project (partly funded by the U.S. government). The meeting based its deliberations on the false notion that Canada has 20 per cent of the world's fresh water. Actual available supply amounts to only around six per cent -- about the same as has the U.S.

The water (and environment) meeting was preceded by another on April 26th talking about "North American" energy. The beneficiary of these discussions is pretty clear when you realize Canada has no national energy policy. We are the only energy exporting country in the world without a one.

Gordon Laxer told the Parliamentary committee: "The National Energy Board wrote me on April 12: 'Unfortunately, the NEB has not undertaken any studies on security of supply.'" He was also told by the NEB that Canada does not maintain a 90 day energy reserve as other developed nations do. As Laxer points out, "Canada may be a net exporter, but it still imports 40 per cent of its oil -- 850,000 barrels per day -- to meet 90 per cent of Atlantic Canada's and Quebec's needs, and 40 per cent of Ontario's."

Canada exports 63 per cent of its oil production and 56 per cent of its natural gas, percentages that can never decrease under NAFTA.

8) NAFTA Superhighway. State governments in the U.S. are becoming increasingly alarmed at the prospects of deep integration. Earlier this year, Idaho became the first state to pass a legislative resolution directing the U.S. Congress to drop out of the SPP, which is referred to as the North American Union amongst U.S. opponents. Thirteen states in addition to Idaho are calling on Congress to abandon the SPP: Georgia, Arizona, Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Montana, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington and Virginia.

Part of the opposition is focused on plans for a so-called NAFTA Superhighway: actually a corridor several hundred metres wide including rail lines, freeways and pipelines from Mexico to the Canadian border. There is a growing grass roots movement against the SPP in the U.S., but led by the right over the issue of compromising American sovereignty.

9) Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA). While U.S. states, concerned about state rights under an unaccountable "North American Union," are organizing against the scheme, Canadian provinces are either blithely unaware or knowingly complicit in the deal. More Canadians may be aware of TILMA -- the investors' rights agreement between B.C. and Albert -- than they are about the SPP, but in reality they are one and the same.

TILMA is major piece of the deep integration, deregulation imperative and fits hand in glove with the SPP. There is a similar, though more informal, process evolving in the Atlantic provinces, called "Atlantica." And B.C. is now pushing the so-called Gateway Initiative, a kind of regional superhighway project that will see huge and environmentally disastrous expansion of ports, highways and pipelines to further supply the U.S.'s insatiable demand for resources and cheap Asian goods.

10) The next SPP summit. The third leaders summit on the SPP will take place this August 21-22nd in Montebello, Quebec, not far from Ottawa. By the time it does many more Canadian will be aware of it.

Part of the reason that news of the SPP/deep integration issue is finally seeing the light of day is that opposition is growing and groups fighting the SPP are having an impact. The Council of Canadians, the CLC and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives held an SPP teach-in in Ottawa last month and many civil society groups are now taking deep integration to their members. Demonstrations are planned for the summit. The NDP continues to press the government on SPP secrecy and the Green Party's Elizabeth May has said deep integration will be a focus of the party's election platform.

It is hard to think of any other issue in modern Canadian history, especially one that will literally determine whether the country survives or not, that has taken so long to get public attention. I first wrote about it September, 2002.

By the time the SPP summit has come and gone and the fall political season begins, deep integration, the most treacherous plan for the country yet devised by Bay Street, will be increasingly exposed.

And by the next election, we could see a repeat of the great "free trade" election of 1988. This time we have to win.

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/06/08/DeepIntegrate/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110607

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The Next SPP Meeting this August '07

2007-06-16T22:35:58Z

Canadian Peace Alliance
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/SPPEvents.htm

Lay out the "Unwelcome Mat" for George Bush, Felipe Calderon and Steven Harper at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Summit

Harper and his new friends will be meeting at Montebello Quebec from August 21-23rd 2007. These 3 Neo-Liberal amigos will be discussing the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).

The Canadian Peace Alliance and Collectif Échec à la guerre are jointly calling for demonstrations to coincide with the SPP summit.

The CPA is urging its member groups to, wherever possible, join demonstrations and other events that will be happening in Ottawa and Montebello and if travel is not possible to demonstrate against war and the SPP in your home towns. Please send us the details of your events to post on the website.

The details of events in Ottawa and Montebello are still TBA yet we do know that there will be a mass rally in Ottawa on the 19th of August, teach-ins and other events on the 20th and demonstrations at the summit site on the 21st. Some groups have already started booking buses to get to the rally on the 19th. Book your time off work now so that you can take part in all three days of events.

Keep checking this space for more details as they become available. For more info on the SPP please check the Council of Canadians website at www.canadians.org

Call to Action

No to War
No to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

On August 21 and 22, at Château Montebello, in the Outaouais region of Québec, the third meeting of the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico – Harper, Bush and Calderon, will take place to discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The Canadian Peace Alliance and Collectif Échec à la guerre denounce this partnership among the top business and political leaders of all three countries, because it will not improve the security and prosperity of the people but will work against their aspirations. We call all peace supporting organizations and individuals to protest war and the SPP this August.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was signed by Prime Minister Paul Martin and Presidents Vicente Fox and George W. Bush on March 23, 2005. Then came the second summit in Cancun, in March 2006, where Stephen Harper represented Canada. Media reporting of these meetings ignored the crucial issues at the heart of this "partnership": the accelerated extraction and delivery of Canadian oil and water resources to the US economy; a deepening of economic partnership with the US conditional to a war driven foreign policy; the pretext of "national security" to justify the secrecy surrounding the precise nature of the discussions and the deals made.

Guarantying and increasing the profits of the largest corporations

In the aftermath of the September 11 2001 attacks, George W. Bush declared "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists". That year, the only directive given to Paul Celluci, as he became US ambassador to Canada, was to do whatever he could to bring about a major increase in Canadian military spending. During his term, he repeated relentlessly that, for the US, "security trumps trade". The message was clear: unless Canada adopted the same "security" agenda as the US, our trade relations would suffer.

It is in this context that in January 2003 the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) launched its North-American Security and Prosperity Initiative, in which it takes a stand in favour of the "smart border", the secure flow of Canadian energy resources to the US, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), a major increase in military spending and interoperability of Canadian and US armed forces. In April 2004, in a policy document entitled New Frontiers: Building a 21st Century Canada-United States Partnership in North-America, the CCCE wholeheartedly embraced Bush’s credo: "The way that we and other countries respond to the relentless threat of terrorism and rogue states has vital implications for global economic growth just as it does for Canada’s future (...). In short, for Canada and for the world as a whole, economic security and physical security have become inseparable." In April 2003 and 2004, the CCCE held its spring meetings in Washington, inviting several US military and political leaders to participate.

On to War !

Change in the international role of the Canadian Forces (CF) towards offensive operations in partnership with the US military has taken place gradually, over the last 15 years, without any public debate or awareness. In February 2005, it was made official in the Liberal government’s budget, announcing the greatest increase in military spending since the end of World War II (12.8 Billion $ over five years). The following month, echoing the demands of the powerful Canadian corporate lobby and adopting their proposals almost to the word, the SPP was signed. The real significance of this "partnership" would become clearer over the following months.

On April 19 2005, the new International Policy Statement (IPS) of the Martin government announced its intention to increase regular forces by 5,000 members and reserves by another 3,000, as well as to double the rapid deployment capacity of the Canadian military for missions abroad. And in July 2005, it was announced that the Canadian intervention in Afghanistan would move from Kabul to Kandahar, and that starting in February 2006, an extra 1,400 soldiers would be sent to that area. This news was accompanied by declarations by the new Chief of Defence Staff, Rick Hillier, rejoicing at the thought of hunting down terrorist "scumbags" and to see the Canadian Forces finally doing their real job of being "able to kill people".

Anti-democratic policies

Granting the wishes of Canada’s largest corporations – those who also benefit the most from military and "security" contracts – the Government of Canada has forced on the people a warmaking foreign policy that the majority continues to reject. Furthermore, as was revealed a few months ago, in the name of that same partnership, the goal of increasing fivefold the production of oil in the Alberta tar sands by 2030 has been decided. This makes even more ludicrous the recent Conservative government statements of seriously wanting to address the issue of greenhouse gases and to follow the spirit of the Kyoto Protocol. On this issue, the gap between government policies and the will of the people is even more obvious.

This third SPP summit will bring together a US president whose policies are backed by hardly a quarter of his own people, a Mexican president whose election is highly disputed, and a Canadian Prime Minister heading a minority government. The deals they will make in Montebello, with no parliamentary debate or public discussion, will have no legitimacy. The Canadian Peace Alliance and Collectif Échec à la Guerre therefore call on the people of Québec and Canada to reaffirm their opposition to the warmongering, anti-environmental and anti-democratic policies of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and to protest the SPP summit.

No to the wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan
No to the accelerated destruction of our planet
No to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

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Five things you should know about the Security and Proseprity Partnership of North America

2007-06-16T20:47:28Z

Canadian Perspectives
Spring/Summer 2005
http://www.canadians.org/publications/CP/2005/spring/SPP.html

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, signed in March 2005 by Canada, Mexico and the United States, has a familiar sound and feel. It’s remarkably like the North American Security and Prosperity Agenda launched in January of 2003 by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), Canada’s premier big business lobby group. Security, Canadians are being told, trumps all other concerns: if we want the border to stay open, we will have to help build a security perimeter around North America and support the U.S.’s military, energy and economic interests abroad. The pact signed in Waco, Texas is, in effect, the political “good housekeeping seal of approval” for a new “big idea” engineered to please the corporate sector of all three countries. It contains no concrete action to improve the lives of the continent’s ordinary citizens.

Here are five reasons why Canadians should oppose this initiative:

1. The closer we are to the Bush administration’s security agenda, the harder it will be to maintain an independent foreign policy. While public opinion forced Paul Martin to refuse participation in missile defense, CCCE head Tom d’Aquino says missile defense should be revived in a future Parliament.

2. Canadians’ civil and human rights will be compromised by further harmonization with the U.S. The Safe Third Country Agreement, signed by the U.S. and Canada in December 2004, requires Canada to turn back any refugee claimants who enter the country through the U.S. Anti-terrorism legislation as well as “security certificates” allow the government to detain non-citizens on the basis of secret evidence. The new Partnership would go much further with its biometric identification and a North American common entry system, further jeopardizing Canadians’ civil rights.

3. Canada will lose what little control we have left over our energy supplies. The Partnership calls for an energy security pact that will cement a continental energy regime, ensuring that Canada will lose what little control we have left over our oil and natural gas. It would also open the door to an integrated electricity grid. Remember the “great blackout” of August 2003? There could be more with an integrated grid.

4. It could open the door to a continental water market. While water is not mentioned in the pact, it is clearly on the table. In leaked minutes of an October 2004 meeting of the Task Force on the Future of North America, co-sponsored by the CCCE, the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, participants (including Tom d’Aquino and John Manley) agreed that "no item, including Canadian water… is 'off the table'… but it will simply require more time to ripen politically."

5. A North American trade bloc could put Canadian social programs on the chopping block. The CCCE recommends many steps that would set the scene for a North American trade bloc; they include requiring a common passport and tariffs and treating all North American citizens as domestic investors in each country. Under this scenario, Canada would most surely lose its NAFTA exemptions for health, education and social security.

Canadians are good neighbours and want to work with the Americans to ensure the safety of their citizens and our own at our shared borders. But the proposals in the Waco pact go too far. Canadians must say no.

Maude Barlow is National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians and author of Too Close for Comfort: Canada's Future in Fortress North America, to be published this fall.

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