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.
I heard some fellow, perhaps the author, on late-night radio last night talking about this topic. Everyone seems surprised that North American countries are on the way toward merging. But Bush clearly stated it in a speech before he was elected in the first place. Called the “Century of the Americas,” that speech is here on FR somewhere. I’ll go look.
Murray Dobbin is a communist and a nut (though I repeat myself). Nice friends that the folks at WND have.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a6ee1f3ae7.htm
Bush’s speech “Century of the Americas” laid it out before he was ever elected. When will we learn to listen?
Canada absorbed into the US?
Has anyone bothered to ask the Canadians?
It’s nonsense.
The Bible is right about the NWO. George Bush Sr. use to use New World Order but taught his son never to use the term in public.
Why oh why is this in conspiracy instead of news???
http://www.canadians.org/water/documents/NA_Future_2025.pdf
North American Future 2025 Project
25 pages PDF
btt
Ping
Because the idea that Canada (and/or Mexico) will allow itself to be absorbed into an entity mostly controlled by the US is silly.
We get the land and property; the Canadians get the boot.
Definitely a far reaching plan eh!?
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Idea??? This whole thing is way past the idea phase - have you even looked at all the links to the documents? Do you realize these meetings have been / are actually taking place - ongoing -real - real people at real meetings etc?
Hey have you heard the rumor that FR is really just a CFR - NWO change tool? Is that silly or what?
Do you think Canadians and Mexicans are going to join a union where the US has most of the power? If you do, you're nuts.
Hey have you heard the rumor that FR is really just a CFR - NWO change tool? Is that silly or what?
Maybe we could just turn the world around and go back a couple hundred years and everyone could be isolationist..... Damn progress, just damn.
But I doubt the Candanians will freely give under to the US and Mexico.
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