Regarding “open skies,” three working groups are working on aviation issues, groups designated as “Aviation Safety,” “Airspace Capacity,” and “Harmonized Air Navigation Systems.” I am told that a tri-lateral agreement to create a North American Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) was signed in 2005, and that five WAAS stations were planned to be put in place in Canada and Mexico in 2005. Implementing WAAS in Mexico and Canada involved sharing the U.S. Global Positioning System with Mexico and Canada. I am told that the three countries executed a Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) agreement in January 2005 to allow for Mexican and Canadian aircraft to confirm to U.S. air spacing requirements. I found that the three countries released a North American Aviation on a Joint Strategy for the implementation of performance-based navigation in North America. This initiative included Area Navigation (RNAV) and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) in North America.
If Corsi is offering this as an example of the merging of Canada/US/Mexico then frankly he's full of crap. None of the issues mentioned in this para are threatening in the least. In fact they serve to improve aviation safety and efficiency.
A snippet for you:
Why the secrecy?
"We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public," said Word.
She suggested to WND that the work products of the working groups was described on the SPP website, so publishing the actual documents did not seem required.
"None of the issues mentioned in this para are threatening in the least. In fact they serve to improve aviation safety and efficiency."
Mexico is definately the most corrupt country on this continent. Anyone that would trust them in any regard is dilusional. This would easily allow them to smuggle drugs and illegals into the US.
As a popular author, rather than a scientific or peer reviewed writer, Corsi is a not all that full of crap, just a little on the hysterical side. It sells books, I guess.
However, like the humble sparrow, it would not be a bad idea for Freepers to peck through the hossheet to look for useful nuggets, in this case not of oats, but of info. If you can get through Corsi's conspiratorial prose, the info is there.
Clearly, what SPP does is mix the good, the bad, and the ugly in what looks to me like a concerted attempt to fly under the public radar. Sure the trade and transportation aspects of SPP are pretty much already a done deal ... amplifications of NAFTA ... as worrisome as NAFTA is to some people ... the real problem is where does the trade deal end and the political deal begin? Why don't we know more about that? Might be nothing to worry about. At this point the paranoiacs and the pollyannas are both wrong. Nobody knows enough to say.
I lived through most of the EU machinations in Europe and lemme tellya, they were a model of transparency compared to SPP! And don't forget, there was a nation-by-nation referendum at the end ... and not every country signed on to everything ... the Brits for example, held on to their currency and have more border controls (nowhere near enough) than some of their continental partners.