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Canadian, U.S., and Mexican elites, including CEOS and politicians, have a plan to create common North American policies and further integrate our economies. This plan goes by various names and euphemisms, such as "deep integration", "NAFTA-plus", "harmonization", the "Big Idea", the "Grand Bargain", and the "North American Security and Prosperity Initiative". Regardless of which name your prefer, the end goal of all of these plans is to create a new political and economic entity named the North American Union (NAU) that would supercede the existing countries. Theoretically, it would be similar to and competetive with the European Union (EU). The...

Mulroney, Clarkson to attend Reagan funeral TORONTO - The governor general will represent Canada and a former prime minister will be a speaker at the state funeral of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Sources familiar with the funeral planning say Reagan's widow, Nancy, invited former prime minister Brian Mulroney to speak at the funeral, which is set for Friday in Washington. And the prime minister's office says Governor General Adrienne Clarkson will represent Canada at the ceremony. As of late Monday, Prime Minister Paul Martin was not planning to attend. In 1994, Reagan let the country know in a handwritten...

<p>The new and overriding predicate of American policy -- foreign, defense, security, domestic -- is to ensure that 9/11 never happens again. If the terrorists managed to mount a second such attack anywhere in the U.S., the consequences would be destructive for the nation and calamitous for the administration. The dominant unspoken thought of the president of the U.S. must therefore be: "I will take whatever action is required to protect America from attack so that it will not be said of me 50 years from today that I was asleep at the switch at a seminal moment in our history."</p>

The RCMP says its long-running investigation of Airbus sales and related deals will result in no further charges and among the first to be informed early yesterday was former prime minister Brian Mulroney, once at the centre of accusations in the controversial case. In a brief letter delivered to Mr. Mulroney, RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said that "after an exhaustive investigation in Canada and abroad" the national police force had concluded the "outstanding allegations cannot be substantiated and that no charges will be laid." Mr. Mulroney was extremely relieved to receive Commissioner Zaccardelli's letter, said Luc Lavoie, a spokesman for...

Says he's being led by popularity polls Goodwill with U.S. being squandered VALERIE LAWTON OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA—Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's stand against joining the invasion of Iraq shows he's a follower, not a leader, says Brian Mulroney, warning that Liberal "anti-Americanism" has poisoned Canada-U.S. relations. In a scathing assessment of the government's handling of the Iraq crisis, Mulroney, the former Tory prime minister, said Chrétien has abandoned long-standing allies such as the United States and Britain. "At a crucial, seminal moment in our history, we have repudiated our allies and our coalition partners of the past," he said in an...