Reality Check

Conservatives in Denial about North American Union and Canadian Sovereignty

Some of your readers may remember the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) Conference held at Montebello, Quebec in August, 2007. Primer Minister Harper hosted Presidents Bush and Calderon in what turned out to be a major fiasco.

The Quebec Provincial Police admitted that undercover police infiltrated a peaceful protest against the SPP Conference, whose mandate is for the 3 countries to work towards the formation of a North American Union. An embarrassing video of the failed attempt to provoke violence by the undercover cops was posted for the world to see on Youtube. So far the Conservative government has failed to conduct an inquiry in to this anti-democratic tactic, and has moved Canada one step closer to a police state.

When the conference (no media present) was over, Harper basically laughed in the face of all Canadians when he said the sessions were about regulating the trade of “jellybeans” between the 3 countries. Bush smirked in his trademark smile and warned of conspiracy theorists dreaming up nonsense. The media was silent, basically complicit with government in its failure to the public to investigate and report on the whole SPP issue.

So why have a big conference at a huge expense for all Canadian taxpayers last August? And why did Harper go to New Orleans on April 28, 2008 for a 4th SPP conference in 4 years? To count jellybeans?

North American Union Imminent- NWO Around the Corner

Canadian Union of Public Employees Demands Inquiry into Police Duplicity at SPP Protest in Montebello

At a peaceful protest to oppose the real goals of the SPP Conference in Montebello, Quebec on August 20, 2007, Canadians were stunned after watching a 5 minute video which focused on the actions of 3 undercover Quebec Provincial Police officers. The video is available on the previous posting on this website.

The video provides clear evidence that the 3 masked uncover policeman, one brandishing a rock in his hand while making gestures towards the police line, were sternly requested by the middle age organizers of the protest to desist and leave the protest.

The undercover cops could have used a few acting lessons as their pathetic attempts to pose as protesters was transparent to the assembled crowd, and is now part of the public record. Watch the video and you will see the police provocateurs pushing through the protest line and being dragged away by their uniformed colleagues.

The North American Union: Democracy Dying in Canada

Unfortunately, democratic rights in Canada are quickly becoming an illusion. In a sinister plot being carried out underneath our noses, the Canadian government has been working collectively with Mexico and the United States to create the conditions for a merger into a North American Union (NAU). To date, there has been absolutely no public participation concerning this merger.

The plot will thicken even more on August 20-21 when George Bush and Felipe Calderon, the presidents of the United States and Mexico, meet Stephen Harper at the Fairmont Hotel in Montebello, Quebec. Further planning and analysis of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), an informal agreement signed by the leaders of the three countries in 2005, will command center stage.

The Plan to Disappear Canada: Deep Integration Comes Out of the Shadows

By Murray Dobbin, Vancouver

If the machinations going on in this country regarding so-called "deep integration" were instead a communist conspiracy to take over the country (you will, of course, have to try hard to imagine this) the news media would be blaring the story.

Pundits would pontificate, editorialists would erupt, security forces would be unleashed.

Instead, a virtual conspiracy to make the country disappear through assimilation into the U.S. gets barely a mention.

But news of the scheme -- formally called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) -- is finally breaking out of the secret chambers of the ruling elite and the federal government. This is both good news and bad. It's good that ordinary citizens are finally getting a glimpse of the betrayal of their country. The news is bad because it reflects just how much of this scheme is already being implemented.

Given the meetings of CEOs and politicians to advance the scheme politically, as well as all that must go into its actual implementation, there is simply too much activity to keep secret.

Tight Security Planned at Montebello for SPP Conference

July 23, 2007
Les Whittington
Toronto Star
OTTAWA BUREAU

OTTAWA–Rising concerns about continental integration and opposition to U.S. President George W. Bush's war in Iraq may bring protesters to Montebello, Que., in large numbers next month when Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with his American and Mexican counterparts.

Thousands of demonstrators turned out in Ottawa the last time Bush visited Canada in 2004. But those opposing Iraq or the tightening of relations among Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are unlikely to get very close to the Aug. 20-21 summit at a luxury resort 80 kilometres from Ottawa.

Police are planning to throw up a security cordon extending several kilometres around the meeting. Details are still secret but the authorities are leaving nothing to chance.

The Ottawa-based Council of Canadians says a public forum on Canada-U.S.-Mexico issues it had planned to hold in a community centre not far from Montebello was blocked by local authorities.

Brent Patterson, the council's director of organizing, said his group was told by authorities in Papineauville, Que. – six kilometres from Montebello – that police insisted on the use of the community centre as a headquarters for security forces.

The council has rescheduled its Aug. 19 public forum to Ottawa. But Patterson expressed outrage that the public can't seem to get near the Montebello summit when corporate executives have personal access to Harper, Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderón.

About 30 business executives have helped the three countries' leaders set the agenda under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) initiative that forms the basis for the meeting. Begun in 2005, the initiative commits Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to advancing post-9/11 security and streamlining continental trade and business activities.

"We do think that they are trying to silence us as much as they can and keep us as far away from the summit as they can," said Patterson in an interview. "And to us, this is profoundly wrong, particularly given that a number of corporate executives from all three countries will be at the summit itself with direct access to the leaders."

Organizers for a variety of North American groups are calling on Canadians and Americans to turn out to protest the so-called "Three Amigos" summit, and thousands are expected to do so. But Montebello, an out-of-the-way spot on the north side of the Ottawa River, will be much less accessible than the capital, where large demonstrations against Bush's 2004 visit tied up the city and sparked clashes between protesters and riot police.

RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Elaine Lavergne said police are in touch with groups planning to demonstrate. But she said it's impossible to tell how many protesters will show up.

As for the decision by Quebec provincial police to take over the community centre in Papineauville, she said, "It's for security reasons, it's obvious."

Besides the unpopularity of Bush's Iraq war, the security and prosperity initiative has become a lightning rod for a wide range of concerns about the closed-door trilateral meetings.

Building on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the initiative includes efforts to clear border bottlenecks and harmonize trade tariffs, product standards and other regulations; expand cross-border energy distribution systems; beef up disaster management, and improve North American emergency procedures for outbreaks of avian flu and other pandemics.

But Canadian opponents are alarmed about the possibility that the process could chip away at Canadian sovereignty, weaken regulatory standards and lead to a loss of control over natural resources.

North American Union- Connecting the Dots

My previous articles on this website explain in detail the lead up to the North American Union under the pretense of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the cleverly disguised methods the governments of Mexico, Canada and the United States have used and will continue to use to change the face and the future of our North American continent.

The upcoming, so-called SPP Conference in Montebello, Quebec from August 20-21 will bring the leaders of the three countries together to ‘ratify’ the SPP, about which their respective citizens know almost nothing. This is all part of a carefully laid out plan, and is no accident. Our government leaders are not at all interested in discussing this issue with the people who elected them. Democracy with a different twist.

The media is complicit in this fascist act by government in collusion with the corporate multinationals, and have either refused to publish anything relevant, or have glossed over the entire issue in true lapdog fashion.

For further background information of the effects on Canada because of the impending North American Union, you can do no better than to read Maude Barlow’s “Too Close for Comfort” wherein Ms Barlow provides painstaking and shocking facts into the economic pillage that will affect all citizens except the wealthiest of the elite.

The purpose of this article is to analyze what else is going on in our countries right now, and then to determine what relationship this activity has with the NAU. I am stating up front that these arguments will be conjectural but need to be addressed.

Bush and Calderon to Visit Canada- Canadians Completely Unaware of Looming North American Union

In just over a month’s time, on August 20, the most powerful president in the world will be arriving in Montebello, Quebec for a two-day conference. President George W. Bush will be meeting with Stephen Harper and their Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon. So far, the silence from the Canadian and American media has been deafening.

Talk to 90% of people on the street and they won’t know about this upcoming conference, and if by a slim chance they do, they won’t know the purpose of the meeting or why the leaders of Canada, United States and Mexico are meeting in the dog days of summer under what amounts to a veil of secrecy.

So, what’s this upcoming conference all about, and why are the newspapers, radio and television keeping silent about it?

The purpose of the upcoming conference is to ratify the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which was initiated by Bush, Martin and Fox in 2005 in Waco, Texas. Essentially, this so-called ‘partnership’ will result in what the politicians refer to as ‘continental integration’-newspeak for a North American Union- and basically a harmonization of 100’s of regulations, policies and laws.

North American Union Coming to Your Canadian Neighbourhood by 2010

The June 21st article in the Cornwall Standard Freeholder concerning passport requirements for Americans and Canadians is all smoke and mirrors.

The premise for border security between the two countries just doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff uses the government’s favourite weapon, promoting fear, to intimidate people on both sides of the border.

The truth is that the United States is not today and never has been interested in securing either the Mexican or Canadian border. With between 12 and 20 million illegal immigrants already in the United States, how secure have the borders been since 2001? How did all of these people get in after the devastation of 9/11?

Passport Issue is a Smokescreen: North American Union is the Real Issue

The great passport debate was featured in a recent Cornwall Standard Freeholder editorial and in other newspapers across the country.

On the one hand, we are being programmed by the White House propaganda machine to accept passports as a necessary step in Canada/US border security. U. S. Ambassador and White House cheerleader David Wilkins doesn’t try to explain the policies he is told to announce. We are simply told to get ready for 2008 by getting a passport. Never mind mentioning that thousands of Mexicans are streaming across the southern border each week, mostly illegally. I guess they won’t be traveling with passports.

On the other hand, the premiers from Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick will be making a presentation in Washington to promote the use of driving licences with enhanced security capability.

The Americans themselves are waffling on the passport issue. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff has indicated that he is open to options such as driving licences instead of the passport requirement. They are conducting a pilot project in the state of Washington using licenses.

To understand fully what is happening at this juncture, we need to look at the big picture that our governments have in store for us.

You will remember the attention that the media gave to the meeting in Crawford, Texas in 2004 with Bush, Martin and Fox rubbing elbows. At the time the media was silent on the details of that meeting. Maude Barlow and a few others have shown that “deep integration” between Canada, Mexico and Canada is being carried out secretly but you have to search for the details.

The Council of Foreign Relations has recently published a document entitled ‘Building a North American Community,’ which is the blueprint for the merging of Canada, United States and Canada into one superstate/trading bloc. The CFR document calls for a common security border perimeter
around North America by 2010, along with free movement of people, commerce and capital! One of Canada’s ‘leaders’ who has been involved from the beginning in this charade is none other than John P. Manley, former deputy Prime Minister and current co-chair of the Security and Prosperity Partnership(SPP).

In just a few years, passports won’t be required for travel between Canada, United States and Mexico at all. The newly created North American Union will become the single, biggest political event since WW2 in North America and will cause drastic changes in our lives. All of a sudden our borders will be open and ‘safe’ again, just as they are when you travel in Europe from one country to another. No wonder our politicians and our newspapers aren’t talking about it.