Canada risks losing its sovereignty: protesters[SPP]

Standard FreeHolder ^ | 19 Feb 2008 | Michael Peeling

[BGHater]

Could the governments of North America be conspiring to turn the continent into one united country? A group of protesters scouring Pitt Street Saturday believe it's only a matter of time before Canada loses it sovereignty to a super-powered government made of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Dwight Dugas and several other Cornwall residents started their call to action against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) outside the constituency office of MP Guy Lauzon, much the way they say similar grassroots groups did in 18 other Canadian cities Saturday.

According to the Government of Canada website, the SPP is "a commitment" by all three countries "to work together to build a safer and more economically dynamic North America" that focuses on the areas of cross-border transportation, security, economic prosperity, environmental protection and public health.

One protester yelled to passersby: "SPP is a North American union without your consent. Wake up Cornwall!"

The group's principal concern is the alleged creation of a universal currency to be used across all three countries known as the "Amero," a concept discussed by Professor of Economics Herbert Grubel of Simon Fraser University in his 1999 book.

"The SPP is a threat to our country and our way of life," Dugas said. "If we give up our currency, we give up our sovereignty. Whoever controls the money in a country has the power."

The SPP mandate claims to respect the sovereignty of each country, which Lauzon backed up Monday after an unrelated press conference at the Lionel Chevrier building.

"(Creating one country) is not what (SPP) is about," Lauzon said. "Let's say a pandemic of the flu breaks out. We can't have it getting across our borders. It's all about security and protecting the residents of all three countries. I don't think any of the leaders have anything but sovereignty on their minds at these meetings."

Dugas believes the SPP is, in reality, being steered, as opposed to just advised, more by the North American Competitiveness Council than the wishes of the people of all three countries. The council is made up of the U.S Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad among other major players in the private sector.

Photos and videos of the Amero, which is rumoured to be in production in Denver, Colorado, have shown up on YouTube and been discussed by economic and political analysts on major media outlets. One online U.S. protester pointed out in a YouTube video that none of the North American countries have been given the chance to vote on the introduction of a universal currency, of which he showed allegedly official drawings.

Conceptual prototypes for such a coin by a designer named Dennis Carr do exist, but they are not meant to be legal tender.

As Carr states on his website, www.dc-coin.com, "My goal with these coins is not to endorse a Union of North America or a common 'Amero' currency. I fully support the United States Constitution, and I would not welcome (in any form) a diminishment of its provisions. I expect that these coins will help make more people aware of the issue and the possible ramifications."

Lauzon said there is no such thing as the Amero; that it's essentially a myth.

Dugas likened the alleged movement towards a North American union to the fascist movement led by Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini, who apparently was quoted as saying fascism should have been called "corporatism."

When the North American national leaders met last year in Montebello, Que., Dugas says a petition signed by 50,000 like-minded individuals was never delivered to Prime Minister Stephen Harper because Canada's foreign minister sat on it.

mpeeling@standard-freeholder.com

[no more apples]

Never happen - we don’t want Canada or Mexico.

[e-male]

"Never happen - we don’t want Canada or Mexico."------------ The American people can't pay that $9 trillion dollars debt by themselves.

[Secret Agent Man]

This is what I don’t get. Since we have fiat money, and we make money out of nothing, why can’t we easily get rid of this debt? It’s all based in this nebulous ‘confidence of the dollar’ but unless the USA is nuked out of existence, the rest of the world will want to do business with us and therefore is confident in us. If we can make money out of nothing then we can pay off this supposed ‘debt’.

[e-male]

I think because the people in our government who create this debt on our behalf, are working in the interest of those we owe. In 1992, Col. Bo Gritz was running for Pres. His solution was to take 5 lbs of pot metal and mint a $4trillion coin, then deposit it at the Federal Reserve and say “debt paid”.

[B4Ranch]

Now that would take a 10 lbs of pot metal and mint a $9 trillion coin.