'NAFTA-plus' talks aim for security pact

Written By: N Say
Date: 2004-10-18 08:45:00
<a href="/article/224551270-naftaplus-talks-aim-for-security-pact">Article Link</a>

The trinational task force, which has the full backing of the three governments, has been charged with creating a road map toward a continent-wide customs-free zone with a common approach to trade, energy, immigration, law enforcement and security that would virtually eliminate existing national borders.

John Manley, the former Liberal deputy prime minister, will co-chair the task force and be joined on the panel by William Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Pedro Aspe, a former Mexican finance minister.

The task force will report to the prestigious U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and received the blessing of Anne McLellan, Canada\'s Public Safety Minister, and Tom Ridge, the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, during a meeting in Ottawa this week....\"

http://www.canada.com/national/national ... 8c&rfp=dta

\"October 15, 2004--The Council has launched an independent task force on the future of North America to examine regional integration since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement ten years ago. The task force will identify inadequacies in the current arrangements and suggest opportunities for deeper cooperation on areas of common interest. Unlike other Council-sponsored task forces, which focus primarily on U.S. policy, this initiative includes participants from Canada and Mexico, as well as the United States, and will make policy recommendations for all three countries.

The task force will review five spheres of policy in which greater cooperation may be needed. They are: deepening economic integration; reducing the development gap; harmonizing regulatory policy; enhancing security; and devising better institutions to manage conflicts that inevitably arise from integration and exploit opportunities for collaboration....\"

http://www.cfr.org/pub7454/press_releas ... merica.php

I forgot to say that the Council was created in 1921 to plan out US world domination. An excellent study on the Council is in the book Imperial Brain Trust edited by Shoup/Minter. Good luck trying to find it though....--- "George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

"...common approach to trade, energy, immigration, law enforcement and security that would virtually eliminate existing national borders." Read that the way it is surely intended by the Council: "...common approach to trade, energy, immigration, law enforcement and security that would eventually subsume Canada and Mexico into the United States or annex them as vassal provinces."

Our experience should show us that there is no compromise in the U.S., no sense of everyone winning until the U.S. has taken all it wants. And they will want our oil and water, for free; they will want cheap Mexican labour, for free.

I hope there is no one who considers this to be a good thing. Even having the discussions is inherently dangerous. Since Vive is passionate about Canadian sovereignty, this strikes me as an issue that should fire up its readers.

Paul Harris

The list of people on the Council link is a who's who of militant continentalists: - Gary Hufbauer, former Treasury Dept economist - Michael Wilson, Brian Mulroney's Finance Minister - Wendy Dobson, another economist, cut from the same cloth as Hufbauer - Richard Falkenrath coauthored an excellent book on terrorism (America's Achilles Heel"), but I don't know a lot about his integrationist/anti-integrationist views. Looks like he's a card-carrying continentalist like the rest of them--- "George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

This is a good thing because Canadian politicians won't have carte blanche to make life harder for Canadians like they do now, we'll have to elect real leaders instead of opinion poll followers who will only raise taxes and lie to us that they're doing it for health care.

Canadian politicians are the biggest drain on the Canadian economy, better integration with our neighbours will stop our sliding standard of living.

better integration with our neighbours will stop our sliding standard of living. Yes, the slide will stop, and it will make that unpleasant 'thump' when it hits bottom. No, thanks. --- "If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

Amen. What makes Anon think our politicans are any worse than American ones??

Paul Harris

Yeah, although you could possibly include European elites in the mix. Many people think there might be a bit of a battle between those elites (the 40 American and 5-10 Canadian) who favour U.S. domination, and the 100+ European elites--many of whom favour the United Nations path to a world government.

I swear to God, if you search for the 2004 Bilderberg agenda (Stresa, Italy, including pictures)--it sounds just like Orwell's 1984 world of Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia. The European bilderbergers are apparently angry at the U.S. bilderbergers for unilateral, rather than U.N. action. Their plan is a world of THREE trading blocks, tied to 3 COMMON CURRENCIES:

1 - FTAA (Free trade area of the Americas), (U.S. Dollar)

2- The E.U. (Eurpeans Union), common currency: (the EURO)

and 3 - some kind of Asian trading block. (Asian currency)

I guess Orwell was a better futurist than even his believers thought he was.

I submitted this story too--you beat me to it.

That's funny. Canadian politicians do not have carte blanche to make canadians lives more miserable, they have just been listening to the US, as we become more and more like them we get more and more of their problems. Also US politicians seem to have carte blanche to make the lives of the whole planet more miserable. Depleted uranium, unilateralism, corporate dominance, large wealth gap, war, war, WAR...no end in sight. If the US wants to renegotiate NAFTA it is likely because they are tired of LOSING all the softwood disputes.

Yeah, George Bush will make our lives better. Just ask all the Americans that hate him!

---
Dave Ruston

Why ask just the Americans. The poll can be world wide. I'm sure a few more can line up for the list. American Government running North America and we elect the Lemmings to get it started. God save Canada.

Yeah, you`re right, but you know what i mean.

---
Dave Ruston

Wow! You guys are really a bunch of loons!!

WE HAVE DONE IT TO OUR SELVES PEOPLE LETTING THE POLITICAINS GET TO STRONG FOR TO LONG TIME TO TAKE IT BACK PEOPLE .STAND UP FOR YOURS, WYZA SHAKUR