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’ve already said, what I posted to you, over a year ago, wasn’t articles. They were documents obtained from governmental websites. Nice try at insinuating I read and posted leftist articles to you.
I'd like to read those links. Being that you're off to bed, perhaps nicmarlo would be good enough to supply them again for those of us who never had the opportunity to read through them the first time.
Oh, I will, but I have to go back and get them, from where I posted them to 1rudeboy before....and seeing as how they should be on this thread, not just linked, I need to format them again.....there are links to governmental websites, and other documents. I believe I posted a couple very long ones to him at the time.....and made note of the fact, back then, that he continued to make comments, and WOULD NOT read the articles....and I know I told him then, as now, that because he refuses to read them, his personal opinions on this matter are being given the weight they then deserve: nada.
Unfortunately, you've been....for a very long time. If you'd just read what's in black and white, instead of posting your spin and mockery....maybe you'd have less crap coming out of your mouth.
It was just one article, rudeboy. It was MANY. There were MANY links, to different places and materials. There were several posts to you. I remember this because, no matter where the links went to (governmental websites, Canadian government, Mexican government, US government), you wouldn’t read it.
That showed me then you truly are being disingenuous about this entire matter. You have no desire to read anything save that which upholds your own personal opinions, facts/truth be damned.
Simple. Profit.
Why should manufacturers have to be constrained by little things like minimum wage and child labor laws? Why pay union scale to dock workers in Los Angeles when you can build a superhighway to deep water ports in Central America?
Let's face it, the idea of a sovereign nation whose citizens enjoy constitutional protections is so... quaint. Who do those colonists think they are anyways? Independence indeed. /sarc
Back into the Empire you webbels!
It was = It wasn’t....
Or maybe you don’t remember what it was, but you remember I refused to read it? That’s not going to look very good during cross-examination.
wrong
Being paid union scale is a constitutional protection? Sign me up!
That's a real question. Let's cut to the chase.
If you had any interest in reading the documents you were posted, the time was truly when they were posted to you.
If you were truly INTERESTED in reading them RIGHT NOW....you’d go look at “my comments” from about mid-2006, and search for the posts NOW.
I have no inclination of doing ANYTHING for you NOW. It will do so, at my leisure. My leisure, for you, is NOT now...because you refused to read them the first time.
It’s really not my fault that you wish to remain ignorant. After all, I have already READ all the documents I asked you, over a year ago, to read.....and, btw, those documents have been available to you ALL THIS TIME....yet, you can’t even REMEMBER them being posted to you from the first time. That’s how much you were interested in even reading them....
Give it up already; you’ve already shown yourself to be disingenuous.
“Let the record show Mr. Marlo did not respond.”
Simple? To eliminate our Constitution and merge us with 2 other countries who don't want to merge with us? Simple? LOL!
Why should manufacturers have to be constrained by little things like minimum wage and child labor laws? Why pay union scale to dock workers in Los Angeles when you can build a superhighway to deep water ports in Central America?
Why do they need the NAU to take advantage of lower wages in other countries? They can do that now.
You're being disingenuous. [hoot]
“Mr. Marlo, is there anything you remember about this document, other than that Mr. Rudeboy refused to read it?”
In due time.
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