Meeting Fuels 'North American Union' Fears

EXCERPT: (CNSNews.com) - An upcoming meeting among President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon is raising concerns on both sides of the northern border and the political aisle over sovereignty, immigration, natural resources and corporate influence over government.

The Aug. 20-21 meeting is the fourth in a series of meetings among the leaders of the three countries as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a "trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity ... through greater cooperation and information sharing." The first meeting took place in 2005 in Waco, Texas.

I absolutely do not want the government-created cesspool of Mexicorruption to be identified as American.

Sure it's geographically located on the North American continent but America has a very special meaning and must not be deprived of its well-earned esteem by including a "country" ruled by a corrupt, criminal ruling class -- no matter how many VIP American buddies they have.

I don't see how we can even partner with such a place.

Set the Mexican people free and maybe it'd be a good idea to consider closer cooperation.

But something is in the works between our border with Mexicorruption and the Canadian border; and parts have been constructed. Why the denials? Just don't call it NAFTA Superhighway? Is that it?

One part involves Interstate 69 through Detroit and another (competing?) part is I-35.

ABOUT I-69/TTC Interstate 69 is a planned 1,600-mile national highway connecting Mexico, the United States and Canada. Eight states are involved in the project. In Texas, I-69 will be developed under the Trans-Texas Corridor master plan.

The Spanish Groupo Ferrovial documents CINTRA's contract

December [2004] - Cintra lands contract as strategic partner for the next 50 years in the design and planning of the Trans-Texas Corridor, tin the US. Cintra will develop a Master Plan to define the infrastructures to be built in the corridor and the optimal financing formulas or systems for each project. The multi-use transport corridor is 800 miles (1,300 km) long and will include toll roads with separate lanes for light and heavy vehicles, plus freight and high-speed train lines and utility lines (gas, power, telecommunications, drinking and irrigation water, etc.). The contract gives Cintra a number of preferential rights to obtain these toll road concession projects directly. In the initial phase, Cintra will directly develop five projects in the next five years (all toll roads´concessions), at an estimated cost of US$ 6,000 million.

What can be "exported" from Mexicorruption in such volume, besides its expelled citizens, that requires the biggest infrastructure project since the Eisenhower Interstate highway project?

RE: "Did it ever occur to you that these roads might have some use other than carrying NAFTA and/or Asian freight?"

Yes, and I was asking what other purposes might be besides Mexican citizens being expelled and / or products coming from/through Mexico. Some products may also be trucked to Mexico, of course.

What are other reasons?

The population of Texas is projected to double by 2040 and about 60% of Texans live within 50 miles of I 35. The traffic on I 35 is intense.

At this point, there are no plans to build the multimodal TTC 35 Corridor, only 4 lanes from south of San Antonio to north of DFW.

Thank you. Yes I know from my own searches that at this point there is only the Texas project. That alone is probably the biggest since the Interstate highway system. Fifty years and at a cost of $30 billion, I believe. Though I think that the construction is planned to finished sooner, the 50 years I believe is CINTRA's commitment,

There is no effort to hide the fact that "[t]he corridor ultimately can be connected to a number of highway and rail facilities in Mexico."

There is no effort to hide the Kansas City Smart Port and the China connections. The web site reports on them.

There are open discussions about Oklahoma and beyond as well as the I-69 options.

So I don't see the problem. Both sides of the argument are right; to wit, there is no "NAFTA Superhighway" being built and there are plans to build a "NAFTA Superhighway."

It may take decades and it may not be called "NAFTA Superhighway."

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