Posted on 02/24/2007 8:16:07 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
OTTAWA (AP) -- Senior officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico opened talks Friday to hash out ways to thwart cross-border security threats, cope with a potential bird flu outbreak and boost North American trade.
With growing Mexican and Canadian concerns about U.S. border restrictions imposed since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez were meeting their counterparts from the two countries to consider cooperation on the issues.
Hosted by Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay, the gathering of the two-year-old Security and Prosperity Partnership is expected to result in recommendations for President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to consider at a summit later this year in Canada.
Neither Rice, MacKay or Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa made any public comment as they entered the talks at the Canadian foreign ministry where a small group of anti-U.S. protesters huddled outside in freezing temperatures.
The officials also were meeting with the North American Competitiveness Council a group of business leaders to hear suggestions on protecting thriving flows of commerce and people that some fear may be crippled by U.S. border restrictions.
With a combined gross domestic product of $15 trillion overwhelmingly from the U.S. the three nations exchange goods and services worth nearly $1 trillion and see about 500 million legal border crossings a year, U.S. statistics indicate.
The value of U.S. exports to Canada over a single bridge the Ambassador linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario is greater than that of U.S. exports to Japan, they show.
Friday's meeting follows Chertoff's announcement Thursday that children will be exempt from new rules requiring travelers to show passports when entering the U.S. at land or sea borders.
By erasing the borders.
Why not thwart the border crossings?
Hey no border no problem. Problem solved.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
[Insert standard FR demagogue comment here]
This meeting has a direct correlation with the ills on our border and lack of internal enforcement.
ping
Border PING
Here we go.
Yesterday,I saw the list of the billion dollar "American Corporations" that are on this competitive council. Guess what else this competive council will get from you silly taxpyers? A Secretariat---Clap,clap,clap,///s.Along with the Secretariat goes secret tribunals behind closed doors. Clap,clap,clap,/s. Don't forget the unelected "ministers" who somehow have to be paid again by taxpayers.////s
How many of you can absolutely say you learned about this socialism in public school?
You saw a list? I thought they are secret.
Did ya read this one?
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/kincaid022107.htm
Try this url. Nothing is too good for free trade. Scroll on down and you will get all the names.
Try this url. Nothing is too good for free trade. Scroll on down and you will get all the names.
http://www.americas-society.org/coa/NACC/NACC%20Trilateral%20Mtg%208152006.pdf
A good one!
First publiche in the British Punch Magazine in, are you ready for this? 1948
This nation is inching ever closer to the point where the blood of Freedom will have to be renewed.
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