<strong>Written By:</strong> sthompson
<strong>Date:</strong> 2006-04-30 17:11:00
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That debate could come within days, he said... <P> ...Word of the latest deal leaked out Saturday after U.S. defence officials said Canadian Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor and David Wilkins, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, renewed the agreement at a meeting in Ottawa Friday. <P> The U.S. officials said the deal commits Canada to indefinitely take part in Norad with added responsibility for terrorist attacks and the smuggling of drugs, and people, by sea. But Harper evaded questions on the tentative deal. <P> "I am not in a position to give you a definitive answer on that," Harper said. "I know there have been proposals looking at some extensions of Norad into the maritime area, but those haven't been finalized."... <P> Full story: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/29/norad-060429.html?ref=rss"> Harper promises debate on expanded Norad treaty</a> [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on May 1, 2006]

   

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is anti-Canada and Anti-Canadian as well as beening less democratic and open then any Prime Minister Canada has ever had before.

Here is a man that admires the United States of America so much but lacks two qualities which every American has: citizenship and putting your Country interests first and fore most in everything one dose. In short, making your Country number 1 in everything it does. Protecting ones Country and its people from all threats; financially, economically and militarily.

He Talks the Talk but doesn’t Walk the Walk.


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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

   

Harper already knows that Martin and Leighton as both on board with the dissolution of Canada - and its the reason the Bloq exists. Not exactly a risky move is it?

   

The milquetoast "opposition"? How were they "bought?

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RickW

   

PatM--Layton is not on board with deep integration. The NDP is the only party that has ever actually attempted to work with this site and do something to stop integration, and they asked me to run purely on the strength of the site (Layton called me personally to talk about it) so they essentially asked me to run for my views on deep integration. I think the NDP has been largely limited in what it has been able to do because of the relatively few opposition days the party gets to bring forward motions, due to its smaller number of MPs, and having to respond to other issues on many of those days.

It would have been great to get elected and do something about it myself as an MP, but me and anyone else who's interested can still get involved in your local riding, and help create and send policy resolutions to the party that those elected NDP MPs will then act on. For all its faults, in my experience the NDP remains the most democratic of the major parties that have a current role in government (Greens still have no MPs, and I can't speak for the Bloc but I'm a Western Canadian after all) and so I simply can't lump them in with the Liberals and Cons on this issue. I know better from personal experience.

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"When I told him about class warfare, he asked if we did it in JellO."--translation/paraphrase, The Candidate, CBC

   

From the Prime Minister's Web Site (<a href="http://www.pm.gc.ca/">http://www.pm.gc.ca/</a>)<br />
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Renewal of NORAD Agreement to be voted on by House of Commons<br />
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May 1, 2006<br />
Ottawa, Ontario<br />
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that there will be a debate and vote in the House of Commons in support of the renewal of the North American Aerospace Defence (NORAD) Agreement. <br />
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“The Speech from the Throne committed this government to submitting significant international treaties for vote in Parliament,” said the Prime Minister. “For nearly five decades, the NORAD Agreement has represented one of the most fundamental elements of the Canada-U.S. defence relationship. The renewal of the agreement is an important undertaking that should be considered by the House of Commons, and I thank the leaders of the Opposition for agreeing to bring this before the House in a timely way.”<br />
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NORAD is a binational military command first established to monitor and defend North American airspace. NORAD now also monitors and tracks man made objects in space and detects, validates and warns of attack against North America by aircraft, missiles or space vehicles, while it continues to provide surveillance and control of Canadian and U.S. airspace. Under the new agreement, NORAD would also provide warning of maritime threats. <br />
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The NORAD Agreement was first signed by the governments of Canada and the United States on May 12, 1958, and has been renewed for varying periods since that time.<br />
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The Prime Minister’s Office - Communications<br />
<p>---<br>Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.<br />
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Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.<br />

   

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is anti-Canada and Anti-Canadian.

Ummmmmmmm, yeah. OK.

   

As far as I know NORAD is now under NORCOM (Northern Command). So the NORAD agreement may be meaningless. Maybe someone else has some information on this.

Mike
Winnipeg

   

Canada is under NorthCom, period. We do what the American's tell us to do - which includes pretending to vote on issues that we've already been instructed to carry out.