[hedgetrimmer]

A trilateral commission yesterday unveiled

Note that Congress or the American People or any legitimately elected officials represting the American people did not propose this.

Elementary American civics says that government policy comes from the people. In our new form of government, policy comes from NGOs like the trilateral commission, and they have no care for the opinion, safety and sovereignty of the American people any more than they'd care about a gnat.

[pikachu]

"Canadians are always concerned about getting the attention of the U.S., but if you bring Mexico to the table, you get double or triple the attention in Washington," he said.

Canadians do not get attention because they are BORING! Canada is like the dullest town in the USA without the charisma!

[hedgetrimmer]

FYI

[sheana]

Americans are the ones that should be afraid. As always, we will wind up supporting nations that have no respect for us and financially can't/won't help foot the bills.

Oh wait..........that is already happening!

[Cicero]

I take it this a trilateral commission rather than THE Trilateral Commission, but it still gives me a bad feeling. Manley is a liberal party hack, with all that implies. I assume the Mexican is also a leftist although I don't know him. William Weld is a RINO who is also from an old Boston Brahmin family, which probably makes him all the worse.

[xhrist]

"The U.S. will not be safe without the whole-hearted support of its neighbours," Manley said

Kinda sounds like a threat, Mr Manley...

[monkeywrench]

"Weld said bureaucrats in all three countries who want to move incrementally have their "heads in the sand" and would fight these proposals with "every last drop of their blood.""

That's good, anyway. I just wish I knew who they are.

[SMARTY]

It sounds like the Canadians would blackmail the US with the 'future'. The mindless panic and unparalleled pitch of absurdity they lend the expression of their own concerns is becoming tiresome. Do they honestly think that they can continue to pursue their own path in spite of the post 9/11 security reality and which is increasingly unattractive and intelligible to non Canadians and outright dangerous to Mexico and the US?

[jackbenimble]

I've seen this same news in various articles in several Canadian newspapers. I've also seen it in an Indian newspaper. But I have yet to see anything about this in the American news media.

I wonder when they plan to bother and tell the American people that we are about to surrender our borders and sign up all of Mexico on our welfare rolls and take over the defense of Canada?

[bobjam]

People in all three countries need to recognize some facts and make some decisions. For Canadians, they need decide whether they mentally belong to Europe or America. Mexicans need to decide whether they identify themselves with North America or Latin America. We Americans need to recognize that Mexico and Canada are our neighbors and what happens to them affects us.

[expatpat]

Interesting. Mexico's southern border is a lot shorter than our border with Mexico, which is helpful -- but would the Mexicans police it properly? Maybe, they're hypocritically working hard to keep Guatamalans out, now.

We'd have to straighten out those darn Canucks using our services though!

[rudypoot]

Washington can't control it's own boarders. Ottawa refuses to control it's own boarder. Mexico City doesn't even recognize it's boarder. And someone somewhere thought this idea might actually work?!?!

[Paul Ross]

Will be interesting to see Mark Steyn discuss this.

[Steel Wolf]

Canadians are being offered a new vision of a Fortress North America in which the continent is wrapped in a security perimeter from the Arctic all the way to the Guatemalan border.

A border of water and air, except for a slight strip of land, is much more defensible than what we have now. There is an ominious caveat to that. Our neighbors do not share our interest or ability to defend their borders. (Not that we are much better, but our glarning weakness will drive us to overreact when the time comes.)

to create a high-tech, biometric security system to speed passage of law-abiding travellers across borders that would ultimately diminish in importance, much as they have in the countries of the European Union.

After the first WMD attacks in the U.S. hit, Americans will react like you've never seen. Ig those weapons are found to have come across the border from Canada or Mexico (or both), those borders will change. Not necessarily by force, but not necessarily without it. The 'high tech biometric system' will be offered to our neighbors in a way they simply can't refuse. We will design a security system appropriate to the situation, and impose it on our neighbors. Watch 300+ million Americans; powerful, wealthy, and in mortal terror, and you will see action you never thought possible.

I really suspect that once the reality of American cities going up in nuclear fire arrives, Canada and Mexico will cease to be soviergn nations, except as a polite formality. Once it becomes an issue of survival, all other niceties will be swept aside. The only real question is when.