Document on the North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership

This PDF mentions the position of the Canadian Action Party and Connie Fogal, Leader as calling for the abrogation of NAFTA.

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http://www.stopthehogs.com/pdf/nafta-resistance.pdf

NAFTA Growing Resistance & Calls for Renegotiation & Oversight
A power point presentation by Janet M Eaton, PhD, academic, researcher, activist and free trade critic. June 8, 2008
This 60 slide power point with text, quotes, references and images chronicles the resistance to NAFTA that is rapidly emerging across North America. Civil Society groups, political parties, elected representatives, public policy centres and coalitions in Mexico, Canada and the US, as well as cross border coalitions, are all calling for the renegotiation of NAFTA.
It also documents US State level free trade oversight legislation, federal level promises that have emerged in the Democratic Primaries, and US Federal legislation in the works, including the June 4, 2008 T.R.A.D.E Act, all of which reflect growing public opinion to renegotiate NAFTA and free trade in general.

It is hoped by documenting and exposing the breadth and extent of this movement that citizens and politicians alike will recognize the imperative for action. With the significant evidence of failure of the present `free trade´ system and the extent of resistance highlighted herein, the recalcitrant and reactionary calls of elite proponents of NAFTA, to maintain the status quo, must be challenged.
Links to other power points on Globalization, NAFTA, and the SPP and their impacts are found at the end of this power point.
Please forward for general use in increasing awareness & encouraging political action !

(Source: Canadian Action Party Newsletter)

Super NAFTA and the North American Union

We need to hear this again, so here it is. Super NAFTA and the North American Union.

No to SPP says Melissa Brade – CAP Candidate

Melissa Brade

Canadian Action Party candidate, Yellowhead.

Concern about our countries sovereignty and the future for my children if things continue as they have is my motivation for joining politics.

Our country is no longer in our hands, and is instead being controlled by multinational corporations, whose only motivation is profit, with no responsibility to the people or the environment.

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(Full Article: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com)

Security and Properity Partnership and the North American Union

This is a long post so, get ready for a long read This is from the Canadian Action Party Newsletter. I believe this is the only party that takes step toward disclosure of the politics by stealth our Countries are suffering from…

Official U.S. Website – http://www.spp.gov/
Official Mexican Website – http://www.sre.gob.mx/eventos/aspan/
Official Canadian Website – http://www.spp-psp.gc.ca/menu-en.aspx

Connie Fogal CAP leader on the North American Union – http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/Corporate_North_American_Union_address.html

Technical Briefing on the New Orleans North American Leaders’ Summit

April 16, 2008 – No. A/24

Senior government officials will hold a technical briefing on Thursday, April 17, 2008, on the upcoming North American Leaders’ Summit, which will take place in New Orleans on April 21 and 22, 2008.

The Summit will provide an opportunity for the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States to discuss key bilateral, North American and global issues.

Accredited media representatives interested in attending but unable to be in Ottawa should contact the Foreign Affairs Media Relations Office at 613-995-1874 to register to participate in the event by teleconference.

Event: Technical briefing
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: 16:00 p.m. EDT

Location:

National Press Theatre
150 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario

For more information, please contact:

Foreign Affairs Media Relations Office
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
613-995-1874
www.international.gc.ca/index.aspx

http://news.gc.ca/web/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=392239&categoryid=16

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New Orleans gears up for North American summit

Becky Bohrer, Associated Press Writer
Houston Chronicle
April 18, 2008

NEW ORLEANS – Police expect protests but few problems when the two-day North American Leaders Summit gets under way Monday in New Orleans.

It’s VIP duty as President Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper get together to talk trade. But for the New Orleans Police Department, it’s more of the same in a a string of high-profile, crowd-generating events early in 2008.

The North American summit in Quebec last August drew several hundred protesters vocal on the war in Iraq and what they claimed was a gradual merging of the three countries. There also were marches in New Orleans in 2003, when the city hosted negotiations for the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5712435.html

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The People’s Summit in New Orleans: April 21 – 22, 2008

Our Response to NAFTA Expansion!

* Coming together for our communities.
* Linking the Gulf Coast struggle to the fight for the survival of communities in Mexico, Canada, Quebec & the rest of the United States.
* Building collective knowledge and action to transform NAFTA & other unjust economic policies pushed by Bush, Calderon, & Harper.

http://www.summitneworleans.org/

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PREMEDITATED MERGER

Makeover urged for ‘North American Union’ effort

Heavy criticism of continental integration prompts plan to save
flagging movement

By Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily
April 15, 2008

On the verge of next week’s North American summit in New Orleans, a Canadian think tank has suggested renaming the “North American Union” to renew progress toward continental integration in the face of mounting criticism.

A paper entitled “Saving the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership”, published last month by the Fraser Institute in Canada, contends President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have decided to expend no more political capital in pursuing “the bust” that has occurred because of the “brand” of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America or SPP.

The solution, the authors argue, is a public relations makeover in which the goals of North American political and economic integration remain the same but the names get changed to keep trilateral arrangements between the U.S., Mexico and Canada on track.

While the paper continues to dismiss critics of the SPP as “conspiracy theorists,” Fraser Institute political scientist Dr. Alexander Moens and his co-author Michael Cust, a Fraser Institute intern, proposes the name “North American Union,” or NAU, be dropped in favor of a declaration that the three countries now want to create a “North American Standards and Regulatory Area,” or NASRA.

Moens and Cust write that the attacks of SPP critics “are starting to hurt.”

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61728

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ONE IDEA…

One-Thousand People = One-Million Flyers = One Big Wake-Up Call.

The SPP.Gov / North American Union is an agreement for “deep integration” of the Canadian, American and Mexican governments in “300 – 400 areas” without our permission.

For big stuff like this you’d think they’d ask us first, but since it’s the sequel to NAFTA and the establishment knows how much we hated that, this time they’re just trying not to tell us about it by keeping it out of the establishment media.

This response is one idea that can be tried in every city in the world as we wake our neighbours up to how it all works and how the people in charge stopped working for us a long time ago.

Simply look at the size of your city and calculate how many flyers you need to reach a certain percentage, or 1000,000 meaning 1000 flyers carried by 1000 people to reach 20% of Toronto, a healthy sized group that might all talk about it at once because they all heard about it at once.

We may not achieve that by April 19, 2008 at Dundas Square at 1 pm, but we’ll get there.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11530993186&ref=mf

The blasting of lots of completely different people at once with the same simple repeated messages we soon all repeat ourselves despite being completely different people is how propaganda created by the only people with enough control over enough media to produce it works in every example in history.

So: to counter that we have to maximize our impact with big actions of our own all at once to introduce new topics of conversation and move beyond just individual one-offs.

You can do an info-swap’n'drop to trade the work you put into translating the most important issues of the day with compassion and clarity and help inspire each others approaches.

We all need to work harder on finding ways to wake people up to what others can see as obvious, so there should be a push for the maximum number of angles, approaches and improvements on them.

Things like printing or photocopying mainstream news admissions, doing video surveys, creating a variety of flyers, posters, buttons, symbols and adding humour and wit can all help make fun to fight for freedom.

Decentralized power and honest money are all we need to save the world, which means we have to fight the centralization of power by dishonest printers of money, or the central bankers, plus the brokers, corporate fat-cats and punk snitch-o-crats who play their game, or the people they put on TV to lie to us…

…sorry!

ABC News

Obama: No Evidence of the “North American Union”

March 31, 2008 2:01 PM

ABC’s Sunlen Miller and Z. Byron Wolf Report: During a town hall meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Obama was asked about the “North American Union.”

The NAU is a theoretical governmental union merging the United States, Mexico and Canada that some conspiracy theorists and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul have used as a rallying cry.

Obama responded that he sees no evidence of a cabal in forming this union.

“I see no evidence of this actually taking place,” he said. “I think this is something that has been ginned up on certain blogs on the internet,” and mentioned Congressman Paul buying into the theory.

Obama said a lot of the speculation that these three countries were forming an European Union-like partnership was due to a highway being built in Texas that would make it easier to facilitate more transportation between Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Congressman Ron Paul said during the CNN/You Tube debate in November that, “there is a move on toward a North American Union, just like early on there was a move on for a European Union, and eventually ended up. So we had NAFTA and moving toward a NAFTA highway. These are real things. It’s not somebody made these up. It’s not a conspiracy.”

“There’s no evidence that that’s taking place,” Obama repeated again and then reiterated his opposition to NAFTA.

“NAFTA helped to break down barriers on trade between those two countries and I was opposed to NAFTA because I thought it didn’t have the labor and environmental and safety standards that would look out for US workers. But I don’t think there’s some conspiracy to create this one you know, continental government between Canada and Mexico,” said the Illinois senator.

Obama was also asked by the same questioner what his status is with the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan foreign policy group which has also been targeted for similar reasons by conspiracy theorists.

“I don’t know if I’m an official member. I’ve spoken there before, it basically is a forum where people talk about foreign policy, and so there’s no official membership,” Obama respond, “I don’t have a card or a special handshake or anything like that.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/03/obama-no-eviden.html

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NEWS: NDP JOINS FORCES WITH U.S. AND MEXICAN LEGISLATORS TO STOP SPP

Thu 13 Mar 2008.

OTTAWA — NDP International Trade Critic Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster) announced that he had successful discussions with partners in the U.S. Congress and the Mexican Congress while in Washington, DC, last week. Julian was joined by U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (Democrat, Ohio) and the Honourable Yeidckol Polevnsky (senator for Mexico State and vice-president of the Mexican Senate).

http://www.peterjulian.ca/page/599

These are clips of NDP MP Pete Julian speaking in Toronto on April 17, 2008 about the SPP sequel to the NAFTA signed on March 23, 2005 in Waco, Texas for deep integration of our countries at all levels. Like him or not, Lou Dobbs didn’t get the story completely wrong for over 2 years on CNN, several groups, people and politicians are fighting it and you can too. Support Peter Julian, Libby Davies, Alex Atamenko and other courageous NDP politicians in getting more involved, support the Council of Canadians, Canadian Action Party and others, support locals in all countries waking up the neighbourhood and give it a shot yourself!
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NDP vs. SPP: Peter Julian – SPP is Anti-Democratic By Design

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm79iyLag_U

NDP vs. SPP: Peter Julian – Hundreds of Blacked-Out Pages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjhg_YaQrY

NDP vs. SPP: Peter Julian – Where Are Politicians On This?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759EsMpoJuk

Leader of CAP Calls for Referendum and General Strike Regarding SPP

Dana Gabriel
Op-Ed News
March 22, 2008

The battle lines are being drawn and the Canadian Action Party (CAP) is front and center, fighting the North American Union agenda. They are very adamant that Canada’s sovereignty should not be negotiated away. On their websites homepage it states, “A decision regarding the restructuring of Canada into an integrated North American Union with a common currency is a decision for the citizens of Canada – not for a
minority government with an ineffective opposition.”

CAP is demanding full disclosure of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). In a recent video address, their leader Connie Fogal called for a referendum and general strike in regards to the SPP. A general strike might be hard to organize, but it would be an effective way of protesting and drawing further attention to this whole process of deeper integration.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dana_gab_080320_leader_of_cap_calls_.htm

Guard resources, Ottawa urged

As North American leaders’ summit approaches, poll finds Canadians want policies to guarantee energy and water supply, environmental standards

Linda Diebel, National Affairs Writer
The Toronto Star
April 15, 2008

Canadians overwhelmingly sent a message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to ease up on integration with U.S. policy and protect the country’s water, energy and public regulations, according to the results of a recent poll.

The poll comes as Harper, U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon prepare for next week’s leaders’ summit in New Orleans on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America.

To be released today by the Council of Canadians, the poll was conducted April 7 to 10 by Environics and obtained by the Toronto Star.

The council opposes the secrecy surrounding the high-level talks.

In fact, probably the best way for Canadians to learn about what’s on the table in negotiations – which cover everything from greater energy integration to harmonization of health and product regulations – is to research U.S. government websites. “It’s been four years since the launch of the SPP and while corporations have been given a seat at the negotiating table, the Canadian government has never asked the public how they feel about it,” said council chair Maude Barlow.

Support for more nationalist policies was high almost across the board, according to the poll:

• 89 per cent want an energy policy guaranteeing Canadian supply and protecting the environment, “even if this means placing restrictions on exports and foreign ownership of Canadian supplies.”

Support was highest in Harper’s home province of Alberta, with 92 per cent in favour of such an energy policy.

Barlow argues SPP talks already are taking Canada toward greater energy integration with the U.S. and points out agreements have been signed and working groups set up with, among other aims, to increase Alberta tar sands production.

However, there have been arguments any restriction on energy exports would contravene the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which binds Canada to continue energy exports to the U.S. even in times of crisis.

As well, while Canada produced one billion barrels of oil in 2008 – 40 per cent above domestic consumption – it is an oil-importing nation.

• 88 per cent of Canadians want a comprehensive national water policy that bans bulk exports of fresh water and recognizes water as a basic human right. There are concerns water is not protected by trade agreements.

The Center for Strategic Studies and International Studies, a Washington-based think-tank, revealed SPP talks have targeted “water consumption, water transfers and artificial diversions of bulk water” from Canada. As well, Canadian diplomats recently blocked efforts by the United Nations to recognize water as a basic human right.

• 87 per cent agree Canada should set its own independent environmental, health and safety standards, “even if it might reduce cross-border trade opportunities with the United States.” Council researcher Stuart Trew said the product-safety legislation introduced last week by the Harper government includes SPP goals for harmonization by allowing greater corporate oversight of products.

• 86 per cent agree the SPP should be debated in the House of Commons
and submitted to a parliamentary vote.

In its analysis of the results, the Council of Canadians criticized Harper and his counterparts for allowing a select group of corporate leaders in the North American Competitiveness Council to have “VIP access to annual trilateral summits like the one taking place April 21-22 in New Orleans.”

For the poll, Environics interviewed 1,007 people, resulting in a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/414557

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Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush’s “surge” in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Sub prime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress.

The American people’s attempt in November 2006 to rein in a rogue government, which has committed the US to costly military adventures while running roughshod over the US Constitution, failed. Replacing Republicans with Democrats in the House and Senate has made no difference.

The assault on the US Constitution by the Democratic Party is as determined as the assault by the Republicans. On October 23, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by California Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman [http://www.congress.org/bio/id/52], chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and assembly.

The bill passed the House on a vote of 404-6. In the Senate the bill is sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins [http://www.congress.org/bio/id/283] and apparently faces no meaningful opposition. Harman’s bill is called the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.”When HR 1955 becomes law, it will create a commission tasked with identifying extremist people, groups, and ideas. The commission will hold hearings around the country, taking testimony and compiling a list of dangerous people and beliefs. The bill will, in short, create massive terrorism in the United States. But the perpetrators of terrorism will not be Muslim terrorists; they will be government agents and fellow citizens.

We are beginning to see who will be the inmates of the detention centers being built in the US by Halliburton under government contract.

Who will be on the “extremist beliefs” list? The answer is: civil libertarians, critics of Israel, 9/11 skeptics, critics of the administration’s wars and foreign policies, critics of the administration’s use of kidnapping, rendition, torture and violation of the Geneva Conventions, and critics of the administration’s spying on Americans. Anyone in the way of a powerful interest group–such as environmentalists opposing politically connected developers–is also a candidate for the list.

The “Extremist Beliefs Commission” is the mechanism for identifying Americans who pose “a threat to domestic security” and a threat of “homegrown terrorism” that “cannot be easily prevented through traditional federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts.”

This bill is a boon for nasty people. That SOB who stole your girlfriend, that hussy who stole your boyfriend, the gun owner next door–just report them to Homeland Security as holders of extreme beliefs. Homeland Security needs suspects, so they are not going to check. Under the new regime, accusation is evidence. Moreover, “our” elected representatives will never admit that they voted for a bill and created an “Extremist Belief Commission” for which there is neither need nor constitutional basis.

That boss who harasses you for coming late to work–he’s a good candidate to be reported; so is that minority employee that you can’t fire for any normal reason. So is the husband of that good-looking woman you have been unable to seduce. Every kind of quarrel and jealousy can now be settled with a phone call to Homeland Security.

Soon Halliburton will be building more detention centers.

Americans are so far removed from the roots of their liberty that they just don’t get it. Most Americans don’t know what habeas corpus is or why it is important to them. But they know what they want, and Jane Harman has given them a new way to settle scores and to advance their own interests.

Even educated liberals believe that the US Constitution is a “living document” that can be changed to mean whatever it needs to mean in order to accommodate some new important cause, such as abortion and legal privileges for minorities and the handicapped. Today it is the “war on terror” that the Constitution must accommodate. Tomorrow it can be the war on whomever or whatever.

Think about it. More than six years ago the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. The US government blamed it on al Qaeda. The 9/11 Commission Report has been subjected to criticism by a large number of qualified people– including the commission’s chairman and co-chairman.

Since 9/11 there have been no terrorist attacks in the US. The FBI has tried to orchestrate a few, but the “terrorist plots” never got beyond talk organized and led by FBI agents. There are no visible extremist groups other than the neoconservatives that control the government in Washington. But somehow the House of Representatives overwhelmingly sees a need to create a commission to take testimony and search out extremist views (outside of Washington, of course).

This search for extremist views comes after President Bush and the Justice (sic) Department declared that the President can ignore habeas corpus, ignore the Geneva Conventions, seize people without evidence, hold them indefinitely without presenting charges, torture them until they confess to some made up crime, and take over the government by declaring an emergency. Of course, none of these “patriotic” views are extremist.

The search for extremist views follows also the granting of contracts to Halliburton to build detention centers in the US. No member of Congress or the executive branch ever explained the need for the detention centers or who the detainees would be. Of course, there is nothing extremist about building detention centers in the US for undisclosed inmates.

Clearly the detention centers are not meant to just stand there empty. Thanks to 2007′s greatest failure–the Democratic Congress–there is to be an “Extremist Beliefs Commission” to secure inmates for Bush’s detention centers.

President Bush promises us that the wars he has launched will cause the “untamed fire of freedom” to “reach the darkest corners of our world.” Meanwhile in America the fire of freedom has not only been tamed but also is being extinguished.
The light of liberty has gone out in the United States.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

EU Leaders sign landmark treaty

The document, signed at a ceremony at the city’s historic Jeronimos Monastery, also scraps veto powers in many policy areas.

ONE APPOINTED PRESIDENT FOR ALL OF EUROPE.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6901353.stm

The final stages of a single European government is being finalized.
This is a look into the future for North America. We may one day have this same system if certain people get their way. New treaty removes veto powers from member nations and removes France and the UK from the UN security council!
This further decays the sovereignty from all member countries.

Eventually, there will be no Poland. No Germany. No France! DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO CANADA! We have something to offer this world with our unique views and opinions, let Canada stand strong and free, and lead the world, not step backwards in time to when single individuals decide the fate of us all.

(Source: Canadian Action Party Newletter)

Local British Columbia Council Passes Motion to Halt SPP

There ya go! This is how it’s done! Death to the SPP and NAU.

by Dana Gabriel

The Village of New Denver in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, has recently passed a motion to halt the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America. The motion to stop the SPP is until such time as there is more parliamentary oversight and a democratic mandate from the people of Canada to further pursue this agenda of deeper integration.

The motion passed reads as such, “the Council of the Village of New Denver supports the position of Alex Atamanenko, MP, B.C. Southern Interior, in calling on the Federal Government of Canada to stop further implementation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America with the United States and Mexico until there is a democratic mandate from the people of Canada, Parliamentary oversight, and consideration of its profound consequences on Canada’s existence as a sovereign nation and its ability to adopt a autonomous and sustainable economic, social, and environmental policies, and urge the Government of Canada to conduct a transparent and accountable public debate of the SPP process, involving meaningful public consultation with civil society and full legislative review, including the work, recommendations and reports of all SPP working groups, and full debate and a vote in Parliament.”

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(Full Article: http://www.opednews.com)

February 16th Nationwide Protest for A Referendum Against the SPP

On February 16th thousands of educated and awake Canadians took part in a nationwide protest against the SPP and NAU.

Through Facebook.com, a handful of Canadians were able to organize and coordinate demonstrations to be held simultaneously in more than a dozen cities from Fredericton Nova Scotia to Victoria BC. Tens of thousands of Canadians were awakened to the threat of the NAU as a result, and it has galvanized ordinary citizens to take part in grassroots political action.

(Source: http://e3s.ca)

No to SPP, No to North American Union says Miss Fogal.

Connie Fogal says “That the North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign nations – Canada, USA, Mexico into one regional corporate power base and a North American Union police state through agreements like FTA, NAFTA, TILMA, and SPP. The Smart Border Action Plan, the Smart Regulation Action Plan and the Bi-National Planning Agreement. However, unlike the creation of the European Union, there is no public, political or academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of a North American Union or a vote within each nation as to the wish of the people to join such a union. It is being imposed on us by stealth by our own elected representatives and governments, and is already well on its way to fruition. The NDP is calling for a debate and vote in Parliament which will result in approval.

(Source: Canadian Action Party Newsletter)

Rally for a vote on SPP – Feb 16th 2008

SPP and NAU Free Presentation in B.C.

This is a free presentation been given in B.C.

Free Public Presentation

First 30 people will receive a free copy of the DVD “Endgame”

Two MUST SEE PowerPoint Presentations

FIND OUT WHAT YOU ARE NOT BEING TOLD ABOUT THE

Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America…

AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT

Did you know that 10 corporations from each of Canada, the USA and Mexico have been formed into the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) and are actively advising our government on how to proceed with the restructuring of Canada into an integrated North American Union with a common currency known as the Amero?

Did you know that the SPP is an agreement which was secretly negotiated and signed first by Paul Martin, George Bush and Vincente Fox in March 2005, and then endorsed by Stephen Harper upon his election in 2006?

Did you know that implementation of the secretly negotiated SPP has already resulted in Canada allowing more pesticides on hundreds of fruits and vegetables to match the lower U.S. standards, meanwhile denying two peace activists, retired Army colonel Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin, entry into Canada.

“The real goal of the SPP is more about integrating Canada into the American way of doing things.”

~ Gordon Laxer of the Parkland Institute

Learn more and join the Canadian Action Party www.canadianactionparty.ca in demanding that before the next election Prime Minister Stephen Harper ask the Canadian people if they want a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with the United States and Mexico. This is far too important to the future of Canada to be left to an unrepresentative Parliament and must be put to the People in a referendum!

All are invited to come and listen to two excellent speakers who are not only well-informed, but very passionate about providing Canadians with a comprehensive understanding, supported by facts, about what is taking place, why it is happening, who is responsible, and what we can do about it.

Broken Promises by Bev Collins is an in-depth look at the first 2 years of Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Government. Bev Collins is a former business woman from the Scientific Industry in Ottawa. She is a speaker, researcher and writer on Federal Political Issues, and has toured throughout 7 US states and our Western provinces talking about NAFTA, Quebec, and Canadians continuing loss of sovereignty to a North American Union.

Reclaiming Our Rights, Our Freedoms, & Our Country by Russ Porisky will provide participants with a valuable understanding of the power of their fundamental individual rights freedoms which are recognized and protected in Canada’s free and democratic society, and the methods used by government agencies and corporations to seduce Canadians to unknowingly voluntarily give up these rights and freedoms, and their private property. Russ is the founder of Paradigm Education Group. www.naturalperson.com

Saturday, February 16^th, 2008 ~ 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Chilliwack Best Western ~ Rainbow Country Inn

43971 Industrial Way, Chilliwack, B.C.

For more information contact Debbie Anderson (604)316-0969 or email debbieisnow@shaw.ca

“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.” >From the Canadian Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960.

(Source: Canadian Action Party Newletter )

Nationwide Call to Action: The Jelly Bean Protest for a Referendum on the SPP – Feb 16, 2008

Hello all,

This grassroots effort is mainly occurring on Facebook. Many, many young people are aware and engaged. Here is a list of planned protests so far together with e-mail contacts. If you are interested in helping to organize or assist in any other way please contact these fine young people.

The reason for using the theme Jelly Beans is two-fold. Firstly Stephen Harper used the production and sale of jelly beans in the US and Canada in order to minimize and ridicule the legitimate concerns of Canadians about the SPP. So this is just throwing his lying words back at him. Further, because it will be cold in many of the places where the protest is being held and people will be wearing gloves which makes clapping kind of ineffective – all are being encouraged to bring a clear plastic water bottle maybe half-way filled with jelly beans to be used as noisemakers (like maracas).

Check here regularly for added cities, updates and contact names: http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/cgi/page.cgi?_id=21

Ontario:

Toronto and area: torontosppprotest@live.ca

Windsor & area: Shannon O’Brien Shanfire_99@hotmail.com

Cornwall & area: Shannon Dupuis: ddugas5@cogeco.ca

Ottawa & area: Mike St-Onge: mike.stonge@sympatico.ca – ORGANIZERS NEEDED

Thunder Bay & area: February 15th evening of music and spp talk 481 Hodder Avenue

Alberta:

Edmonton & area: Aaron Skaley Running_blind69@hotmail.com

Calgary & area: Al Pujo trickkustom@hotmail.com

BC:

Kelowna & area: Daniel Merchant tre_merchant@hotmail.com

Squamish & area: Marnie Green marniegreen10@gmail.com

Vancouver & area: James Flack richflack@shaw.ca ORGANIZERS REALLY NEEDED

Victoria & area: Derek Skinner dj76is@shaw.ca

Quebec:

Montreal & area: Fred Cusinato derf-man@hotmail.com

New Brunswick:

Fredericton & area: Trevor Kelly: verdammt@gmail.com

Nova Scotia:

Halifax & area: Lisa Carey: halifaxgirl_1@hotmail.com – ORGANIZERS NEEDED

(Source: Canadian Action Party Newsletter)

Security and Prosperity Partnership and its Gatekeepers: An Explanation

By Derek Skinner

The path to a full understanding of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is guarded by gatekeepers.

“What is a Gatekeeper?” you ask.

Think of it in a physical sense ? someone who stops you going through a gate. If the gate is in a field of knowledge it is someone who stops you learning what is at the next level of understanding and when you are dealing with progress it is someone who prevents you from taking the next step.

“How is that done?” you say.

It is done by — giving you false information — denying you access to the information you need to be able to understand what is going on, – diverting your attention — making you think you have taken the necessary step while actually standing still.

“Who are the gatekeepers?”

They are those who — lie to you — pretend there is nothing happening, – and lead you off down diversionary paths of inconsequential endeavours so that you never get around to dealing with the real problem.

The first two strategies were amply demonstrated by Messrs. Harper and Bush at Montebello, making out that the harmonizing of regulations for jellybeans would not threaten Canadian sovereignty and denying the existence of the NAFTA superhighway corridors that will join Mexico to Canada. The strategy would be a fair description of the Liberal and Conservative governments we have had for the last 30 years together with their corporate controlled national print, radio and TV media cartels.

The third strategy alone refers to the media emphasis on blood and sex, and that is ably supported by the American film industry which has a stranglehold on cinema outlets and movie distribution.

It is assumed that if you have read this far you know that there is a substantial part of civil society that is aware of the deceitful way that both Liberal and Conservative governments have been working for some thirty years to bring about the integration of Canada, the USA and Mexico into a North American Union (the NAU).

The dismantling of Canadian sovereignty, began with Canada’s acceptance of, and membership in, the globalization agenda of the then G7 in the mid 1970s. The first item on the agenda was to transfer control of Canadian Government’s money supply to the private banks. Canada is one of the few countries left in the world with a publicly owned central bank, which can provide for the infrastructure and social programme needs of Canadians at near zero interest, which it did from 1938 to 1974. The result of this transfer is that the Federal debt of $18 billion (since Confederation to 1974) has exploded into a debt of $500 + billion, most of which is compound interest. Each year we pay in excess of $30 billion in compound interest to the private money lenders for a debt that will never be repaid. Add in provincial and municipal debt and that amount is doubled! All of this we pay through various levels of taxation.

As Prime Minister Mackenzie King said in 1935 prior to nationalization of the Bank of Canada:

“Once a nation parts with control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile”

The NAU has been developed through the Free Trade agenda of the FTA (1988) and then NAFTA (1993), followed by the secretive agreement of the SPP (2005) and a host of other side agreements including unification of armed forces in NORTHCOM (2002), that have never been discussed outside of a cabal of senior government officials and military and corporate leaders; and not in Parliament. The secrecy has been facilitated by a fog of denial, distortion and deception in the corporate controlled media intended to keep most of the public in ignorance.

The NAU will be a corporate controlled body, ruled by an elite elected from the corporations, that will direct policy through tribunals that are mandated to protect corporate interests and profits. Civil society will be the ant colony in a fake Hollywood-style democracy, controlled through fear of an unending supply of contrived/phoney external enemies. The NAU plan is due for completion in 2010.

The last category of gatekeepers, is reserved for those who articulate the problem but stop short of taking that next vital step.

These are some of the lesser political parties and civil society NGOs.

Why on earth would a supposedly progressive party or NGO lead its supporters through the morass of ethical, legal, political elements of the “Stop the SPP” campaign, and then stop short of implementing the one action that will produce the stoppage results?

Several possibilities are listed below, in no particular order. Maybe you can think of some better alternatives. For brevity let’s call the co-operating party or NGO the “entity”. 1. The entity believes that, if the negative aspects of the SPP are understood by enough people, a groundswell of public opinion will induce the government to peacefully change its policies.

(The entity does not understand that political policy driven by ideology can only be changed through political action at the ballot box. The other alternative is revolution.)

2. The entity enjoys the ego boost of being treated as an “insider” and is not interested in seeing a solution.

3. The entity sees no hope of change, and is simply warning the people as to what is coming. 4. The entity has been sidetracked, or bought, or threatened, by an inner group that aims to sabotage any attempt to derail the in place corporate plan.

With this in mind consider the 4 possibilities listed above for the NGOs.

1. No experienced observer could be that naïve. There is no way the Liberals or Conservatives will peacefully give up a corporate plan that they have been implementing for years. If we rule out persuasion and revolution you would hope that the entity leaders are not so dimwitted that they cannot see that political action is the only viable option at this time — but yes, maybe some of them cannot see it.

2. This is an ugly thought. I prefer to give all entities the benefit of the doubt.

3. This is an unfortunate possibility. It means that the entity is weak and has given up the fight for what generations of patriots have fought for, and have devoted their lives to handing down to future generations. Nationalism is not a dirty word unless it is used to promote aggression. Canada has a tradition of moderation. Our political system is derived from the old Family Compacts and we are not perfect by a long way, but “Peace, Order and Good Government” is a fine motto to try and live up to, in a democratic rather than fascist manner.

4. This has a number of aspects, on which is pivotally that the entity was established by the corporate planners of the NAU in order to provide a vent for public dissatisfaction so that people of good intent will be lulled into thinking that something concrete is being achieved on their behalf.

This latter proposition is not farfetched, given the resources of the corporate sector and the skill of the long term planning that has gone into bringing the NAU, and the sell-out of Canada’s sovereignty to near fruition. The accumulation of all forms of the media (except the internet) into the hands of 3 or 4 families; the adoption and promotion of the policies of unfettered capitalism; and the subversion of our Bank of Canada into the control of international banking syndicates all speak to a very well thought out plan. It is not likely that such planners will have omitted the provision of a safety valve.

Hence it was never intended that such entities which are vocalizing resistance would effect political action.

This was forcibly brought to my attention when one senior official of an NGO told me that the one political party (Canadian Action Party) that has fought for 10 years to cancel FTA and NAFTA, to halt the progression of the SPP, and to regain control of our monetary sovereignty through the Bank of Canada and has many thousands of members across the country, “was too insignificant to be included” in the group that was appearing to protesting the SPP.

As a subset of the above, it is possible that some entities while being sincere in their objectives, have been infiltrated by subgroups, such as financial supporters or by persons that have attained some measure of internal control, and which wound ensure that actions are watered down or diverted.

The subgroups, would have their own support network either internal or external in the form of partisan supporters of NAFTA and the SPP, or maybe supporters of the Liberal or Conservative parties. A very real case comes to mind, wherein some union supporters of the NDP will support the SPP in order to protect their jobs in the auto industry — which they will allegedly lose if the SPP is defeated; and the American owned auto makers shut down Canadian plants in retaliation.

This reveals a sad case of protecting personal gain before defending national integrity. Maybe that is the rationale that Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling had sold out Norway to Hitler’s Nazi Germany

Reluctantly, unless someone can provide a better analysis or reason for inaction, I am forced to conclude that the reason for civil society gatekeeper inaction lies somewhere in Option 4.

If you are willing to help protect Canadian sovereignty, spread the word about the SPP as far and wide as you can and stand as a candidate and/or vote for the Canadian Action Party that will petition for a referendum on the SPP and make “STOP THE NAU” its central policy plank in the coming general election. Unless we regain control of our money supply and maintain control of our identity and policies, all else will remain out of reach.

(Source: Canadian Action Party Newsletter)

CAP Supports Nationwide Call to Action February 16, 2008

Press Release

Canadian Action Party (CAP) wholeheartedly supports a grassroots Nationwide Call to Action on February 16, 2008. In towns and cities all over this great nation, people will be coming together to send a clear message to our elected representatives in Ottawa – we the people demand a Referendum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).

The SPP is an agreement signed first by Paul Martin, George Bush and Vincente Fox in March 2005, and then endorsed by Stephen Harper upon his election in 2006. CAP has known the true intentions and outcomes of the SPP and has been very vocal against it since it was announced, including during the last election (it was the only party speaking out).

CAP had called for a non-confidence vote in Parliament upon its return and has now been calling for a Referendum of the People. It has a Petition, which is circulating on the internet, posted on its website since the beginning of November. To date there are approximately 5,400 signatures of Canadians who agree that this is far too important for the future of Canada to be left to an unrepresentative Parliament and must be put to a referendum.

CAP candidates, members and leader Connie Fogal were present in Ottawa and Montebello this past summer when the 3 leaders, Harper, Bush and Calderón met with corporate representatives of the North American Competitiveness Council who are driving the SPP process at the highly secured Château Montebello in Québec. More than 2,000 protestors of all stripes made their way to Montebello on August 20 to demand a stop to the SPP. CAP witnessed police state tactics used upon peaceful protestors and police posing as agents provocateurs. Truly it was a forceful suppresion of legitimate dissent and a shameful display in a country that is supposed to be a democracy.

Connie Fogal says “That the North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign nations – Canada, USA, Mexico into one regional corporate power base, through agreements like FTA, NAFTA, TILMA and now the SPP into a North American Union. However, unlike the creation of the European Union, there is no public, political or academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of a North American Union building up to a vote within each nation as to the wish of the people to join such a union. It is being imposed on us by stealth by our own elected representatives and government, and is already well on its way to fruition.” The NDP is calling for a debate and vote in Parliament which will result in approval. The Manitoba NDP Provincial Government openly supports the NASCO or NAFTA Super Highway as was announced in the Throne Speech on November 20, 2007. Video

The mainstream media is complicit in this advancement and the resulting loss of sovereignty. Therefore Canadians must seek information through the alternative media in order to be informed.

If you feel as these concerned citizens do, that sovereign democractic nations matter, please get involved and get active. Help organize a protest in your town or city. As locations are announced CAP will update its calendar of events on the CAP website at www.canadianactionparty.ca and endeavour to keep our contacts and members informed as to action and organizers in their locality. This is our future and we can no longer rely on our elected representatives to do what’s best for the Canadian public as they have long ago sold out to corporate interests.

Contact:
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Wendy Forrest
forrwen@gmail.com

Connie Fogal – A voice of reason on the SPP

Connie Fogal warning on the SPP and NAU

Connie Fogal, the redoubtable leader of the Canadian Action Party, delivers a hard hitting and more… passionate warning to all who refuse to believe that our democracy is being usurped by an elite few and is being sold off, brick by brick, to the highest bidder. Our very own elected politicians are in collusion with powerful private corporate interests, working together behind closed doors to bring in the ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership’ by “stealth” – as one proponent of the agreement put it – without public knowledge or consultation. In this presentation, she argues that Canadian sovereignty is very much at stake and she urges us to become informed and to take action before we ignorantly surrender all of our freedoms and public services to foreign corporate rule.

Connie Fogal On The Corporate North American Union pt 2/3

Part 3/3 soon

SPP Protest posters

Council of Canadians presents reasons to oppose the SPP Agenda

The Security and Prosperity Partnership is such a big agreement, with so many policy recommendations in so many areas, that it sometimes feels like we need a ten-page essay to fully explain why it is such a rotten deal for Canada. But it isn’t really all that complicated. The Council of Canadians opposes the SPP for five main reasons related to its impact on democracy, water, energy, military and foreign policy, and the real security of citizens across the continent.

The SPP is anti-democratic

The SPP is the political manifestation of a corporate plan for economic and security integration that was never voted on in any country. Big business lobbies like the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) drafted almost all of the SPP’s 300 initiatives and they continue to be the only Canadian group with any input into the SPP. In May 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper put 10 members of the CCCE onto a permanent high-level advisory board called the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). This group has been asked to “prioritize the priorities” in the SPP and to “drive change.” Meanwhile, the public and most of our publicly elected officials have been left out of the picture completely.

The SPP is a waste of energy

Energy is arguably the sticky goo holding the SPP together. Canada and Mexico have agreed to give U.S. oil companies an even tighter grip of both countries’ resources in return for vague assurances that the U.S. won’t shut the border to our goods. In Canada, that means guaranteeing a fivefold increase in tar sands production, no matter what the consequences for the environment and public health – and even if it makes greenhouse gas reductions impossible. Pipelines are under construction to ship raw bitumen out of Alberta and to U.S. refineries, which means we’re not even securing any jobs out of this energy fire sale. In Mexico, while their oil and gas industry is miraculously still state-owned, the corporate lobby behind the SPP is pushing for privatization. Clearly, this “partnership” is about U.S. energy security at the expense of Canadian and Mexican jobs and the environment, and is therefore an incredible waste of energy for Canada.

The SPP will lead to bulk water exports

More at: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/08/17/01698.html

(Source: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20070817170343996)

Who really runs this country?

Do you ever wonder who is really calling the shots? Who is shaping our public policy? Who is pushing the integration of North America? Who wants to harmonize our regulations, lifestyles and consumer habits with those of the US?

If they had to guess, most people would probably identify Big Business as being behind it. But what is “big business” in Canada exactly? Who are the key players, the untouchable CEOs.

They wield more power than our politicians, yet without the mandate of the people.
Don’t forget that they are people just like you and I.

Not exactly – they are far richer than the average Canadian, much more intelligent (if intelligence is measured by the number of letters following your name), and they have a much smaller social conscience, if one at all. They focus on short term profits, not long term environmental and social costs.

In the past, our government was able to exercise some type of control over the actions of corporations. We were bestowing a privilege upon them, and although we allowed them to pursue their capitalist goals we put regulations and policy in place so that the balance of power was tipped, be it ever so slightly, in favour of elected politicians over rich CEOs.

That has all changed.

The corporations have gotten smarter. They realized that they have strength in numbers. They formed the Canadian Council of Chief Executives in 2005. Two of the members now sit on the more recently formed (and more misleadingly named) North American Competitiveness council, and one is the sixth richest man in Canada. Building a stronger economically and social Canada is what they claim as their mandate, and I admit that it’s a noble goal in theory.If of course, you buy into the idea that economic prosperity goes hand in hand with social progress.

So what happens when they decide to join forces, and instead of a handful of people controlling a few million or billion dollars, they form a Council with it’s members profits exceeding 750 billion dollars a year?

Voila! The Security and Prosperity Partership is a corporation’s wet dream. They couldn’t have asked for more if they had designed it themselves.
Look behind the scenes, and you’ll see that’s exactly what they did.

The member corporations have been lobbying successfully for years to bring the SPP to life. It puts us on the fast track to North American “harmonization”. That’s corporate speak for ensuring our regulations are in synch with those of the US and Mexico.

Regulations have long been the bane of industry. They are often cited as a hindrance to investment and growth. Words like “costly, unnecessary and overly complex” are used to descrive the CCCE’s feelings about them.

On their website, the CCCE praises the results of NAFTA, claiming that it has resuted in increased investment, employment and incomes.

Instead, the reality is that we are losing jobs to cheap labour overseas, and the NAFTA tribunal has proved worthless in settling trade disputes between our country and the US.

This doesn’t have to happen.

Don’t be afraid of the corporations. We gave them the power, we can take it away. The first step is believing that it’s possible.

Who’s with me?

(Source: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20070802072003920)

(Another Must Read UNREST IN CANADA OVER NORTH AMERICAN UNION: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/2007080121422747)

Bush and Calderon to Visit Canada- Canadians Completely Unaware of Looming North American Union

Now this is by far, the scariest thing I have heard in years. I can’t believe this is actually happening. And, I have no idea if we can do anything about all this? Can we? Been associated with american corporation is just not supportable. And, we have to thank Harper for this? …
A sad day it is, very sad day.

Monday, July 16 2007 @ 05:55 PM MDT
Contributed by: Kevin Parkinson

In just over a month’s time, on August 20, the most powerful president in the world will be arriving in Montebello, Quebec for a two-day conference. President George W. Bush will be meeting with Stephen Harper and their Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon. So far, the silence from the Canadian and American media has been deafening.

Talk to 90% of people on the street and they won’t know about this upcoming conference, and if by a slim chance they do, they won’t know the purpose of the meeting or why the leaders of Canada, United States and Mexico are meeting in the dog days of summer under what amounts to a veil of secrecy.

So, what’s this upcoming conference all about, and why are the newspapers, radio and television keeping silent about it?

The purpose of the upcoming conference is to ratify the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which was initiated by Bush, Martin and Fox in 2005 in Waco, Texas. Essentially, this so-called ‘partnership’ will result in what the politicians refer to as ‘continental integration’-newspeak for a North American Union- and basically a harmonization of 100’s of regulations, policies and laws.

In layman’s terms, it means that once this ‘partnership’ has been ratified which is a fait accompli; we will be following in the footsteps of the European Union. It will mean that Canada will become part of the North American Union by 2010, and that our resources, agricultural, health and environment issues, to name a few, will be controlled not by Canada, but by the government of the North American Union.

A huge ‘NAFTA’ highway, one quarter of a mile wide, is already being built in Texas, where private land is being expropriated, and will eventually reach the Manitoba border.
Water will be the ‘issue’ of this century, as more than 25 states in the U.S. are currently in desperate need. Where do you think they will get the water they need?

The United States is already guaranteed 60% of our natural gas resources from NAFTA, which mean that even during emergencies when we need energy, we will have to import it, while we are forced to export gas to the U.S. This is just one example of how Canada is being shortchanged, and it’s only going to get worse.

Why has there been absolutely NO public consultation on the biggest issue (North American Union) facing Canadians since Confederation? Why isn’t Guy Lauzon, our local MP for Stormont, Dundas and South Glengarry, holding town hall meetings, bringing in cabinet ministers and explaining how the emerging North American Union will affect our Canadian way of life? Ask the citizens of Canada for their feedback. Isn’t that how democracy is supposed to work?

Folks, I suggest that Mr. Lauzon isn’t even aware of the SPP or the North American Union, which explains why the Conservative government has denied all Canadians information to which they are entitled. If he does have something to say about it, then let him raise the issue in our riding.

Furthermore, the example of the North American Union illustrates that our government claims to be democratic, but in fact, does it act like one, or does it prefer to make the big decisions at committee level behind closed doors, while masking its real intentions?

The ratification of the SPP, and the emergence of the North American Union have been organized entirely by government committees and private enterprise. I refer readers to my website at www.realitycheck.typepad.com for further information on the North American Union.

If our citizenry allows the North American Union to come into existence, then our way of life will change drastically, for the years to come. With privatization of our resources, increased foreign ownership, and a Canadian government with less and less authority, our children and grandchildren will be come ‘North Americans’ and our quality of life will drastically decline.

The founding fathers of Canada must be rolling over in their graves.

(Source: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20070716155521570)