Posted on 08/21/2007 9:04:05 AM PDT by LouAvul
MONTEBELLO, Quebec — President Bush, tending to relations with two border nations, sought Monday to invigorate his partnership with like-minded leaders of Canada and Mexico.
Bush arrived by mid-afternoon in the Canadian countryside, where he will promote North American integration with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Police in riot gear pushed back dozens of protesters marching just outside the gate of the resort compound, where a few hundred people gathered in demonstration.
"I heard it's nothing," Harper said, dismissing the protests as Bush arrived at the posh Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello. Bush ducked a question about it and just smiled.
The two-day summit is the third of its kind during Bush's presidency, and each one has been meant to bolster a compact — dubbed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America — that serves as a way for the nations to team up on health, security and commerce.
The partnership of the countries is a framework for working out problems — not a deal that was ever intended to produce dramatic announcements. In turn, the White House sought to lower expectations that something bold would emerge from the meetings.
"I don't expect any major announcements," Bush spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. "I think it's a continuance of discussions that we have regularly with our two closest neighbors."
For Bush, the event also allows him to show that he does not take his neighbors for granted; they are both vital trading partners and energy providers for the U.S.
"The message for Canada and Mexico is that despite the ongoing emphasis on Iraq and terrorism in U.S. foreign policy ... the U.S. is investing time and attention on relationships with our own region," said Chris Sands, a scholar of North American studies...
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“Globalism, whether you like it or not...”
Because Mexico and Canada have so much to offer us......
Fill your tank today?
How can Bush do this without the approval of the American people? This is.....there are no words for what this is!
PING to live presser.
You can be a Globalist or an American. You can’t be both.
We need a greater stake in their countries if we’re going to combat terrorism and attempts to sneak in here.
Watching now- now one is saying anything...but they sure are talking a lot.
We live on a continent whose three countries possess the assets to make it the strongest, most prosperous and self-sufficient area on Earth. Within the borders of this North American continent are the food, resources, technology and undeveloped territory which, properly managed, could dramatically improve the quality of life of all its inhabitants.
It is no accident that this unmatched potential for progress and prosperity exists in three countries with such long-standing heritages of free government. A developing closeness among Canada, Mexico and the United States -- a North American accord -- would permit achievement of that potential in each country beyond that which I believe any of them -- strong as they are -- could accomplish in the absence of such cooperation. In fact, the key to our own future security may lie in both Mexico and Canada becoming much stronger countries than they are today.
No one can say at this point precisely what form future cooperation among our three countries will take. But if I am elected President, I would be willing to invite each of our neighbors to send a special representative to our government to sit in on high level planning sessions with us, as partners, mutually concerned about the future of our continent. First, I would immediately seek the views and ideas of Canadian and Mexican leaders on this issue, and work tirelessly with them to develop closer ties among our peoples. It is time we stopped thinking of our nearest neighbors as foreigners.
By developing methods of working closely together, we will lay the foundations for future cooperation on a broader and more significant scale. We will put to rest any doubts of those cynical enough to believe that the United States would seek to dominate any relationship among our three countries, or foolish enough to think that the governments and peoples of Canada and Mexico would ever permit such domination to occur. I, for one, am confident that we can show the world by example that the nations of North America are ready, within the context of an unswerving commitment to freedom, to see new forms of accommodation to meet a changing world. A developing closeness between the United States, Canada and Mexico would serve notice on friends and foe alike that we were prepared for a long haul, looking outward again and confident of our future; that together we are going to create jobs, to generate new fortunes of wealth for many and provide a legacy for the children of each of our countries. Two hundred years ago, we taught the world that a new form of government, created out of the genius of man to cope with his circumstances, could succeed in bringing a measure of quality to human life previously thought impossible.
Now let us work toward the goal of using the assets of this continent, its resources, technology, and foodstuffs in the most efficient ways possible for the common good of all its people. It may take the next 100 years, but we can dare to dream that at some future date a map of the world might show the North American continent as one in which the people's commerce of its three strong countries flow more freely across their present borders than they do today.
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If this is true, then there is an question of Treason when American officials support Globalist agendas. Unfortunately, the concept of Treason has been muted since Fonda, Kerry and clinton dulled our senses to such issues.
We are hosting this conference here next year? If we don’t see a real turn around from the feds on illegal immigration, such a conference right before elections will create a permanent split in this party, the likes of which we have never seen before. And I’m sure President Bush is thinking just exactly the opposite - that it will create unity and get some of the hispanic vote.
Why is it that all Mexican presidents seem so much more concerned with America than with Mexico? They cannot be equal partners until they clean up their own country. Helping them is one thing, but I refuse to be a party to subsidizing them.
“It is time we stopped thinking of our nearest neighbors as foreigners.”
Well, Canadians and Mexicans aren’t Americans (or United Statesians, if you’re going to ladle-up that: `We’re all Americans’ sheep-dip) so how are we supposed to think of them?
I was there for President Bush twice. I asked him to look out for me once, and he chose to look out for others—people not Americans, but not foreigners either he says, so I suppose we could call them “northern and southern `taints’ possessing a special relationship with America” but gee, why not just call them what they are: foreigners.
Canada and Mexico - just enabling the pollution that Americans won’t ...
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President Bush - SELLING OUR NATION’S SOUL without so much as a whimper.
BOHICA
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