The North American Union Farce

 

In this context, outrage over a nonexistent NAU should not be confused with growing criticism of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP has proceeded to change national regulations, and create closed business committees without the participation of labor, environmental, or citizen voices. SPP negotiations provide a vehicle for more of the corporate integration that has eliminated jobs, impoverished workers, and threatened the environment across borders.

It has also served to extend the dangerous Bush security doctrine to Canada and Mexico, despite its lack of popularity in those countries and among the U.S. public. Its latest outgrowth, the $1.4 billion-dollar Merida Initiative or Plan Mexico would extend a militarized model of fighting the real problems of drug-trafficking and human smuggling that would lead to greater violence and heightened bi-national tensions.

The NAU is a red herring. It serves to divert attention from domestic problems that have more to do with layers of contradictory policies and unmet challenges than any kind of anti-U.S. conspiracy.

The North American Union Farce

 

This article has many complaints about North American relations.  While it claims the NAU doesn't exist, It talks about many things that are normally held to be part of that program.

 

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Many state legislators have been convinced by available evidence that a process intended to lead America into such an international merger is indeed under way at the highest levels of the three national governments of the North American Continent.

During the 2007 legislative session, the Utah House of Representatives first passed H.J.R. 007 to call upon Congress to stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) process engaged in by executive authorities from the three North American nations.

Then, both Houses of Idaho's legislature, both Houses of Montana's legislature, and both Houses of Oklahoma's legislature passed similar resolutions opposing a North American Union. Arizona's State Senate passed a similar resolution.

In Congress, House Concurrent Resolution 40, sponsored by Rep. Virgil Goode of Virgina, seeks to stop the SPP process and prevent a unification of the three North American nations. Two presidential candidates have co-sponsored the H. Con. Res. 40

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The discussion on the North American Union goes forward.

newsobserver.com | Farmers mad over U.S. imports jam Mexico City

 

On Jan. 1, the last taxes on corn, beans, sugar and milk were lifted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, completing a 14-year transition to an open market between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.

Since then, Mexican leaders of farm coalitions and other unionists have been calling for the government to renegotiate the treaty.

newsobserver.com | Farmers mad over U.S. imports jam Mexico City

 

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