Posted on 06/24/2007 1:11:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lawmakers in Canada appear to be paving the way for "deep integration" with the U.S. and Mexico with a proposed measure that advances the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America promoted by the Bush administration, notes WND columnist Jerome Corsi.
It's an issue Corsi has fully investigated for his newest book, "The Late Great USA."
The conservative minority government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pressing for "The Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement", which would enable a Canadian company to challenge laws in provinces that block the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Murray Dobbin, a Vancouver author and journalist critical of SPP, argued in an article titled, "The Plan to Disappear Canada – 'Deep Integration' comes out of the shadows," the secretive trilateral bureaucratic working groups organized under the auspices of SPP are "harmonizing" virtually every important area of public policy with the U.S., including "defense, foreign policy, energy (they get security, we get greenhouse gases), culture, social policy, tax policy, drug testing and safety and much more."
The proposed legislation would allow companies that believe provincial laws and regulations harm their NAFTA rights to demand up to $5 million in compensatory damages for each violation.
When fully implemented, Dobbin argues, "TILMA would allow challenges to the location and size of commercial signs, environmental set-backs for developers, zoning, building height restrictions, pesticide bans, and green space requirements in urban areas. It also would allow challenges to restrictions on private health clinics, halt stricter rules for nursing homes and almost certainly overturn the current ban on junk food in British Columbia schools."
The controversy over SPP broke into the mainstream in Canada last month when Tory Member of Parliament Leon Benoit walked out of a House of Commons International Trade Committee hearing in protest to a leftist professor who wanted to air his objections to "deep integration" with the U.S.
The professor, Gordon Laxer of the University of Alberta, was about to explain to the committee his theory that SPP involves a U.S. grab of Canada's energy resources when Benoit adjourned the meeting and bolted out of the room, preventing the Canadian mainstream press from hearing and reporting the professor's arguments.
Laxer, nevertheless, published his testimony in the nationally read Globe and Mail newspaper.
Laxar has objected to the closed-door meeting roundtables of Canadian business and corporate elite held in Calgary by the Washington-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, as part of its "North American Future 2025 Project."
WND previously reported two activist groups, the Council of Canadians and the Coalition for Water Aid, are protesting that the CSIS research project involves a massive grab by the U.S. of Canadian fresh water, estimated to be one-fifth of the world's supply.
WND also has reported the CSIS, chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is planning to present its "North American Future 2025" final report to the governments of Mexico, Canada and the U.S. by Sept. 30. The report is expected to recommend the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political economic and security bloc.
Canadian activists are preparing to protest the third summit meeting of the SPP, scheduled for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec.
You seem to be pretty obsessed with this Corsi fellow. You keep repeating his name
How long have you had this problem?
On the NAU exchange, after the NAU takes over. Come on, try to keep up.
LOL, if you go around telling people you’re going to buy an oil company, on an imaginary exchange, well now THAT seems pretty delusional.
Excellent. Maybe I can be coauthor Corsi's next book.
Ahh hmm, the evile clandestine, imaginary, NAU exchange. How long have you been having these thoughts?
I don't remember. How long have you been having thoughts about the evil clandestine, imaginary, NAU?
>>the evil clandestine, imaginary, NAU?
The NAU is fairly well documented. This can not be said for your imaginary exchange.
who would want canada?
or mexico?
ick.
>>Okay, I’ll buy PEMEX on the NYSE.
IMHO, it’s still delusional to go around telling people you’re going to buy an oil company, but hey, you’re making progress - at least the NYSE is real.
Currently, Mexico does not allow foreign investment in their oil industry. All oil exploration and extraction is done by Pemex. Are you claiming that after the NAU takes over, Pemex will be the only company that can touch Mexican oil. Or that foreigners won't be able to invest in the Mexican oil industry?
Kinda defeats the purpose of the NAU if stuff is still going to be separate. You know, all for 1 and 1 for all?
but hey, you’re making progress - at least the NYSE is real.
Yeah, unlike the NAU.
Milestones in the physical construction projects required for its implementation are being completed. This is well documented:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Texas+Corridor+NAU
Maybe someone from Tx can confirm for us if the concrete feels real or not.
Would that help with your reality issues?
The plans for or existence of a road does not make the NAU real. Sorry. Neither does a Google search.
[The plans for or existence of a road does not make the NAU real.]
Is the Council on Foreign Relations real?
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf
Quack Quack Waddle Waddle... oh lookee, it's a community union.
[Are you claiming that after the NAU takes over, Pemex will be the only company that can touch Mexican oil.]
Nope, that's your straw man. I'm just making the observation that individuals who go around claiming they are going to buy an oil company are probably delusional. Hey, maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're all hat and no cattle.
So, which one of your personalities are we talking to now? This one apparently thinks the NAU exists.
Yes they are. Just because they wrote a cute paper, doesn't make it happen. That doesn't mean they get to put the NAU in charge either. Sorry that these things scare you so.
Quack Quack Waddle Waddle...
Look out, there's a Free Mason under your bed. Or is it a Rockefeller.
I'm surprised a well informed (LOL!) guy like you wasn't aware of Mexico's paranoia about foreign exploitation of their oil. Mexico will never enter a union with the US because they're afraid we'll steal their oil. Get it?
Why do I get the feeling the Feds play shell games with us all the time?
Because....they are?
Dat B right..!!
Chilling but good research. Won’t the new port planned for Baja south of Ensenada run into opposition by environmental groups? Isn’t it very close to Scammons Lagoon where hundreds of protected California Gray Whales go to calve?
It seems that the only hope for preserving anything of the America we grew up in is to stop trusting politicians and begin working in opposition to all of them, perhaps joining environmental groups. With congress running at a 24% approval rate, there’s a huge opportunity for a third party or...or..some sort of citizen action organization, if there were some way to make it truly effective.
environmental groups have remained mute about those things, as well as the literal trashing of America’s once pristine and protected lands along our southern border.
They are no answer to any conservative cause.
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