Canadian Dimension Magazine, September/October 2007

On August 20, U.S. president George W. Bush, Mexican president Felipe Calderón and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper met in Montebello, Quebec, for a two-day conference to ratify the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP, which was initiated in Waco, Texas, in 2005 by Bush, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin and Mexican president Vincente Fox, is a plan for continental integration or a North American Union along the lines of the European Union. It involves the harmonization (read: Americanization) of hundreds of regulations, policies and laws, including environmental and labour standards, immigration policies and commercial laws. The SPP also encompasses plans for the complete integration of North American security arrangements and unrestricted American access to energy and natural resources, including water — as well as the construction of a superhighway for commercial traffic through the central U.S. from Canada to Mexico. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension June 7, 2007

On June 14-16, corporate executives, the think-tanks they fund, and some government officials from Eastern Canada and the North Eastern United States will gather in Halifax, Nova Scotia to discuss Atlantica: “a broad social project” according the initiative’s leading intellectual architect. (Keep reading…)

As George W. Bush arrives in Germany for the G8 summit, the U.S. position vis à vis Europe is the weakest in over 100 years.

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Fri 11 May 2007 Source: Ottawa Citizen; CanWest News Service

OTTAWA - Amid heated charges of a coverup, Tory MPs on Thursday abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, May/June 2007 issue

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blockquote>Our action will be guided by shared principles. We’ll take concrete steps in the coming 24 months to improve security at our borders and to ensure the smooth and efficient flow of goods and people, particularly with particular discussions with President Bush on the Windsor-Detroit Corridor. (Keep reading…)

Znet March 25, 2007

Alright, so a plan that was developed with questionable science and selective readings of intelligence has, after initially being supported by a population that trusted what they were told, become exceedingly unpopular. Despite the fact that the normally timid opposition has been uncharacteristically emboldened into questioning the goals of the policy, this same opposition states “We have to stay the course,” while mumbling about finding alternatives that will help the economy wean off dependence on this oil-producing region. The noises being made by politicians on the matter is simply reflective of the over-all population who say time and again, when asked, that reversing the dangerous course we are on is their top priority. So the neoconservatives in power have, after their secret plans were leaked, begun to escalate operations in a massive ‘Surge!’ (Keep reading…)

April 13, 2007

Ottawa – The leaked document of a prominent Washington-based think tank obtained by the Council of Canadians reveals that government officials and business leaders from Canada, Mexico and the United States are scheduled to discuss bulk water exports in a closed-door meeting at the end of the month as part of a larger discussion on North American integration. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail 04/04/07

Nairobi : CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaeda militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries, including Canada, at secret prisons in Ethiopia, notorious for torture and abuse. (Keep reading…)

Published on Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Truthdig

“I want to be free. I want to go outside, and I want to go to school,” pleaded a 9-year-old boy, on the phone from prison. This prison wasn’t in some far-off country, some dictatorship where one would expect children to be locked up. He is imprisoned in the United States. (Keep reading…)

Rabble.ca, February 23, 2007

North American integration will be the primary focus of a high-level trinational meeting taking place in Ottawa today. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff will meet with Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, Trade Minister David Emerson and their Mexican counterparts. (Keep reading…)