The Canadian National Newspaper: North American Union: Independent Canada, class leadership, and resistance to Empire

 

North American Union: Independent Canada, class leadership, and resistance to Empire

by Charles Jeanes

Apparently gone are the days where Canadians can rely on leaders like Pierre Elliot Trudeau [Left] to rescue us from an elite driven American take-over agenda, that has threatened Canada even before its Confederation. Current Prime Minister Stephen Harper [Right], in association with Canadian and U.S. based Big Business interests, pursues U.S. President George W. Bush's take-over agenda against Canada.

The editor-publisher of our local weekly newspaper, once my employer, this week wrote a column advocating the “Amero” -- a common currency agenda for Canada, Mexico and the USA. This newsman is not usually a political writer, yet maybe his ideas are more attuned with the common opinions of our town than mine are; I can never get elected to city council, despite four attempts. I don't “resonate” with the public in my electoral platforms, I have been told by the editor of the other newspaper. I oppose the idea of one continental currency (the so-called “Amero"), or of anything else that will submerge us more thoroughly into any form of union with the USA. So naturally the present project of Bush, Harper and Calderon for North American Union (NAU), or Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP), pushes my outrage button. Setting outrage on pause, I want to examine why Canadians should reject these schemes.

Canadian proponents of the Am-Can-Mex Union scheme are not bad people, but they have weak concepts of Canadianism. They are, in one word, unenlightened -- whether one means “enlightened” in its sense of educated and insightful, or in its spiritual sense of uplifted and un-self-centred. Yet their secular leadership is not without effect in our national politics, economics, schools, and media.

It is still within the power of Canadians to head-off the "deep integration" of their nation within a continental super-state, if we have the political will to act accordingly. So herewith, I will make an historical case against NAU and SPP. It is sometimes a harsh judgement of my fellow-citizens, but bear with me. I do believe in the basic wisdom of Canadians. We just need our consciousness focused.

Source: The Canadian National Newspaper: North American Union: Independent Canada, class leadership, and resistance to Empire

The North American Union and the Bigger Plan

If I could have followed up Bret Baier's question with one of my own, here's what I would have asked: "So, President Bush, will the massive 10-lane toll road TransTexas Corridor funded by Cintra of Spain and to be built by Zachry Construction of Texas come to a screeching halt at Oklahoma's border?" What are all the vehicles supposed to do---merge all of a sudden into a small road? I don't think so ! And by the way, Cintra is legally represented in Texas by leading Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's law firm Bracewell & Giuliani, which also just happens to have an office in Dubai (remember Dubai Ports was about to take over operation of a number of America's largest ports) ! Perhaps before President Bush was too critical of people warning about a NAU, he should have read what Mexico's President Vicente Fox said May 16, 2002 at Club 21 in Madrid: "Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union" (or as Gorbachev refers to the EU, the "European Soviet").

Link to The North American Union and the Bigger Plan

 

This article lays out the connection to the larger global plan.  It is a good jumping off point to start studing that projection

 

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Government of Alberta: CANAMEX Trade Corridor

 

CANAMEX Trade Corridor

CANAMEX was one of the first north-south corridors designated as a High Priority Corridor under the National Highway Systems Designation Act.  Actively pursued by Alberta since the early 1990's, the CANAMEX Trade Corridor links Canada, the United States and Mexico and stretches 6,000 km from Alaska to Mexico, truly a pan-American corridor.

The goals of the CANAMEX Trade Corridor are to:

• Improve access for the north-south flow of goods, people and information
• Increase transport productivity and reduce transport costs
• Promote a seamless and efficient intermodal transport system, and
• Reduce administration and enforcement costs through harmonized regulations.

Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation outlines the goals of the CANAMEX Trade Corridor and provides more detailed information on how to improve market access and increase transport productivity. This brochure can be viewed online or click here and a paper copy will be sent to you.

The CANAMEX Trade Corridor Development Brochure (pdf 1.73 MB)

Readers are encouraged to contact Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation with their questions or comments:

Rod Thompson, Ph. D.
Executive Director
Strategic Policy Branch
Tel: (780) 415-0685
Fax: (780) 422-1070
Email: rod.thompson@gov.ab.ca

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Government of Alberta: CANAMEX Trade Corridor

Government of Alberta: NAFTA Trade Corridors & State Truck Standards

 

Government of Alberta: NAFTA Trade Corridors & State Truck Standards

 

This link to the Government of Alberta website is the first that I have seen the has a map with the NAFTA Superhighway listed on it.   So, I suppose, this is no longer an Urban Legend. 

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Canada loses luster for Big 3

 

A weak U.S. dollar and new, cost-cutting labor contracts with the United Auto Workers have turned Canada from a low-cost alternative for Detroit's Big Three automakers into the most expensive place in the world to build cars and trucks.

And Ontario's loss could be Michigan's gain.

Canada's national health care system and favorable exchange rates have long made Canada an attractive manufacturing location for American automakers. But with the Canadian dollar, or loonie, now nearly on par with the greenback and the new contracts negotiated this fall with General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC, the UAW has more than closed the cost gap with the Canadian Auto Workers.

Canada loses luster for Big 3

This example shows how the different currencies and the border influence the automotive industry.  So Canada is now the high cost producer of autos.  How interesting. 

 

It does seem obvious that the Canadian national health care system would be regulated under any new trade agreement.

Technorati Tags: CAW,UAW,Loonie,dollar,Automobile industry,Big Three,Michigan,Ontario

Home - Windows Live Spaces

I am getting better with the technical items in my life all the time.  The cell phone has to be the big change this fall.  I have a blue tooth device.   Now, I walk around the house doing my tasks while I tie up my children unmercifully.  It is great.  The same thing is true for long trips in the car.  No more setting there watching the white line.  Now I can talk for hours on any subject with anyone who picks up the phone,.  I do learn lots this way. I also keep up with my children better. 

<p> Today, I had a deep desire to have a camera on the phone as I was walking around though.  Then people could see what I was looking at.  Wow, that would be great.  </p><p>cnn had an article

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Link to CNN Video

The video shows that this thing is arriving.  The uses are endless.  Apparently, the awkward movements are eliminated.