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.
sweeping generalizations, from you, again.
Point out with specificity...and post documentation to support your suppositions.....AS I DID.
When you can post something besides your own opinions, then get back to me.
Otherwise, as I stated before, your opinions, sans documentation or specific information which could ever credibly refute the mounds of documents I posted and used to support my opinions, will be given the weight they deserve: nada.
You were wondering why these threads get placed in Chat/Conspiracy, again? LOL
Well, those desires and intentions certainly have caused a great deal of death, pain, and misery since the ideals in that document were articulated.
Chavez, Castro, Orgtega... Villaragosa, seem to still be true believers. So, there is probably more death and misery to come from ol’ Karl’s scribblings.
[But they do.]
You have more faith in the "bread and circus" consuming Sheeple than I do. I hope you are right, really I do, but in my old age I seem to be more frequently arriving at the cynical conclusion that, in Washington D.C., the only party that ultimately counts is the fund raising party.
your opinions, sans documentation or specific information which could ever credibly refute the mounds of documents I posted and used to support my opinions, will be given the weight they deserve: nada.
Go nic !
he ain’t gettin’ it.
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.
--Thomas Sowell
That’s still not your opinion, backed by documentation, to refute anything I said. That’s Thomas Sowell’s unrelated opinions and are out of context from my specific post.
He has sold his ears ..hard to hear that way :)
Any word on what John Podesta or the rest of the Clinton Administration feels about this? What about Ralph Nader and the Green Party? You should know.
That’s obvious and becomes all the moreso the more he posts.
that’s called dodging/deflection
No, refusal to answer a direct question is called “dodging/deflection.” If you have any other English definitions you need help with, just say so.
World Nut Daily strikes again.
I never said their paranoia was correct, I just mentioned that it existed. Their mistrust of us probably greatly exceeds our mistrust of them. Canadians feelings of mistrust and inferiority make me think they would not accept a union either.
So basically we have 3 countries that don't want to unite and you're afraid it's going to happen in secret by what date exactly? 2010?
Esther’s saying FR is a tool of the Globalist Build A Burger Council on Foreign Relations conspiracy to dissolve the government of the United States...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.