
New Frontiers ---Building a 21st Century Canada-United States Partnership in North America
April 2004
PREFACE
As the heads of leading Canadian enterprises, the members of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives are committed to the support of sound public policy that will strengthen Canada's economy and society. In this context, the way Canada manages its relationships within North America will have a profound impact on our country's future security and prosperity.
The Council was the private sector leader in the development and promotion of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement during the 1980s and of the subsequent trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement. North American economic integration is now well advanced and irreversible, and in the face of global terrorism, the economic and physical security of the continent have become indivisible.
While the Council's fundamental vision for North America remains trilateral, we believe that to be most effective in addressing some of the key challenges facing our continent today, Canada and the United States must take the lead in developing a new paradigm for cooperation, one that will increase the security of our respective citizens and maximize the ability of our countries to prosper in a world marked by increasingly intense competition among developed and developing countries. Given ever-growing international flows of goods, services, people, investment and ideas, this new paradigm must be based on respect for sovereignty while achieving more effective and mutually beneficial interdependence.
Following more than a year of research and consultation with academics, business leaders and government officials in Canada, the United States and Mexico, we are ready to share some of our thinking. Many important questions remain to be answered, but we hope that the 15 specific recommendations we offer in this discussion paper serve as a point of departure for debate within Canada and the United States and as a spur to action on the critical issues that we have identified.
On behalf of the members of the Council, we are grateful to our readers for your interest in the shared challenges facing Canadians and our North American partners. We look forward to your thoughts and to working with you to ensure growing security and prosperity for all North Americans.
Richard L. George
Chairman
Thomas P. d'Aquino
President and Chief Executive



AncientWinds a écrit:Personnellement, je serais pour une North American Union à l'image de l'UE !

HIM666 a écrit:President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.

EtreDroite a écrit:HIM666 a écrit:President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Erasing borders with Mexico?
And you believe this?
KLM a écrit:What can be said for a man who would allow his home to be invaded by strangers who demanded they be fed, clothed, housed and granted the rights of the first-born?


The Vancouver Sun
Canada's water needs protection from thirsty America: trade lawyer
Chris Cobb, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen
Published: Sunday, April 01, 2007
OTTAWA - Canada urgently needs a clear policy to protect the nation's water resources from privatization, pollution and the creeping demands of the United States, a leading activist told an Ottawa conference Saturday.
"Water needs to be regarded as a fundamental human right and not as a commodity," said international trade lawyer Steven Shrybman. "That is critically important. We need to strengthen sovereignty and negotiate an agreement with the United States that makes it very clear that we will determine when and where Canadian water resources will be used. And that agreement needs to trump any right of any claimant in a trade agreement to assert a claim on Canadian water."
Shrybman was speaking at "Integrate This" a packed weekend conference organized by the left wing advocacy group Council of Canadians to challenge terms of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Opponents of the SPP say its proposed increased economic integration of the three countries is a threat to Canada and Canadians in numerous areas.

The Associated Press April 23, 2007, 2:51PM EST text size: TT
Group protests Mexican truck project
By RON JENKINS
OKLAHOMA CITY
Truckers and anti-illegal immigration forces joined hands at the Capitol on Monday to protest a Bush administration plan to let Mexican trucks haul freight deep into the United States.
The Bush administration announced plans in February to permit 100 Mexican trucking companies to travel beyond the current 20-mile limit in a one-year pilot project.
About 75 sign-carrying truckers and their supporters voiced their disapproval of the project during a rally on the Capitol's south steps.
Supporters included members of the anti-illegal immigration group, the Oklahoma Minutemen Civil Defense Corps., Inc., which is headed by Steve Merrill, former immigration agent.
They heard speakers say permitting Mexican trucks into the country would present safety, security, environmental and economic problems for Americans.
Ron Black, a former radio talk show host, said it is part of an attack on U.S. sovereignty.
"The security of our country is at risk for the benefit of just a few companies," said trucker Jay Michael Riley of Yukon.
Riley and his wife, Claret, a truck driving team, helped found Americans for Safe Highways and Secure Borders, an organization of long haul truck drivers and supporters opposed to allowing Mexican trucks to travel U.S. highways.
Riley said the Mexican government had not developed a database of Mexican truckers as promised under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the proposed NAFTA super highway.
He said allowing Mexican trucks to travel U.S. roads would increase drug trafficking, expose Americans to safety risks, promote illegal immigration and even allow terrorists easy access to the country.
"Where do you think all of those worn out trucks go -- they go to Mexico," said Dan Howard, of Outraged Patriots.
Some speakers said Mexican truckers are poorly paid and allowing them into the United States would put American truckers out of business.
Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, spoke to the group, saying he was introducing a resolution urging Congress to reject the idea of the North American Union, composed of Mexico, the United States and Canada.

'North American Union' plan under fire
Americans fear their borders and sovereignty will dissolve
Kelly Patterson, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Saturday, February 17, 2007
A sweeping accord for the economic integration of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico has unleashed a stormy debate south of the border.
Everyone from national congressmen and state legislators to bloggers and YouTubers are raising the alarm about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a plan to harmonize the countries' economic and security practices.
Criticism ranges from measured calls for stronger congressional oversight to hysterical charges that the "treasonous" deal will flood the U.S. with illegal aliens and terrorists.
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Canada's Peter MacKay and Condoleezza Rice of the U.S. will be discussing the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with Mexico at a meeting in Ottawa next Friday. Critics say the plan is a set of backroom deals that bypass the democratic channels of all three countries.
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Canada will be in the eye of the storm next Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff arrive in Ottawa to meet their Canadian and Mexican counterparts to discuss the accord, in the leadup to a summit of the heads of state in Alberta this June.
The wide-ranging accord lays the tracks for the harmonization of everything from immigration screening and terrorist watchlists to drug-safety and consumer-protection regulations.
The SPP aims "to build a safer, more secure and economically dynamic North America," says Melisa Leclerc, spokeswoman for Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.
But critics argue that the pact, brokered by U.S. President George W. Bush, then-prime minister Paul Martin and Mexican leader Vicente Fox in 2005, amounts to a set of backroom deals that bypass the democratic channels of all three countries to avoid opposition.
Many of the accord's 300-some initiatives affect regulatory issues such as visa-screening rules that are under the control of bureaucrats rather than legislators.
Since January, legislators in six states have tabled resolutions opposing the plan.
"A merger between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico would be a direct threat to the national independence of the U.S. and an eventual end to national borders," says Val Stevens, a Washington state senator who recently filed a resolution opposing the pact.
Officials on both sides of the border strongly deny the charges that they're engineering a North American Union.
"All three governments are sovereign democracies, and the SPP work is the kind of standard intergovernmental diplomacy and co-ordination that occurs all the time on various issues," says U.S. Department of Commerce spokesman Matt Englehart.
Any steps that would require legal changes will be vetted by Congress, Mr. Englehart adds.
The pact aims simply to "promote the safe and efficient movement of people and goods" among the three trading partners, he says.
"That's nice government bureaucratese," scoffs Jerome Corsi, an author and outspoken critic of the pact, pointing to the sheer scale of the project, which involves scores of officials in all three countries.
"You don't need trilateral working groups that report directly to three cabinet secretaries, the National Security Council and the president" to do housekeeping tasks such as cleaning up Lake Erie, he says.


Jean Sansnom a écrit:If you search the good raison for making independance of Quebec, the new project for the union of North America it a good raison for that.
You not believe that?
My name is Jean not John!


Jean Sansnom a écrit:The Americans have no choice. The country of Quebec is inescapable for them, we have the essential energy and the water, two elements in their future. They will quickly accept our entrance(entry) to the American union, as they quickly agreed to finance Lévesque and Parizeau in 1964 when the gouvernment Lesage NATIONALIZED the electricity.
My name is Jean not John!

EtreDroite a écrit:HIM666 a écrit:President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Erasing borders with Mexico?
And you believe this?
"There ought to be limits to freedom." Dubya Bush
dirt-bob a écrit:Jean Sansnom a écrit:The Americans have no choice. The country of Quebec is inescapable for them, we have the essential energy and the water, two elements in their future. They will quickly accept our entrance(entry) to the American union, as they quickly agreed to finance Lévesque and Parizeau in 1964 when the gouvernment Lesage NATIONALIZED the electricity.
My name is Jean not John!
You guys with the water complexHere's news for ya, the planet is covered with water! So deep we can't even go there yet.
Someone will pump that stuff some day and it will be cheap.

Gamma a écrit:dirt-bob a écrit:Jean Sansnom a écrit:The Americans have no choice. The country of Quebec is inescapable for them, we have the essential energy and the water, two elements in their future. They will quickly accept our entrance(entry) to the American union, as they quickly agreed to finance Lévesque and Parizeau in 1964 when the gouvernment Lesage NATIONALIZED the electricity.
My name is Jean not John!
You guys with the water complexHere's news for ya, the planet is covered with water! So deep we can't even go there yet.
Someone will pump that stuff some day and it will be cheap.
It's already being done. And guess what, you have to put a lot of energy in there to make salt water drinkable. Or is it you didn't know we take water to drink it? Either way, you don't make sense at all.
And it's already cheap, pal.

dirt-bob a écrit:Gamma a écrit:dirt-bob a écrit:Jean Sansnom a écrit:The Americans have no choice. The country of Quebec is inescapable for them, we have the essential energy and the water, two elements in their future. They will quickly accept our entrance(entry) to the American union, as they quickly agreed to finance Lévesque and Parizeau in 1964 when the gouvernment Lesage NATIONALIZED the electricity.
My name is Jean not John!
You guys with the water complexHere's news for ya, the planet is covered with water! So deep we can't even go there yet.
Someone will pump that stuff some day and it will be cheap.
It's already being done. And guess what, you have to put a lot of energy in there to make salt water drinkable. Or is it you didn't know we take water to drink it? Either way, you don't make sense at all.
And it's already cheap, pal.
So why are you so worried that they will steal our water?
Don't you think it takes energy to move water buddy.


I don't agree skidooman. Americans will buy and believe anything if it is properly marketed to them. Case in point, even today, a vast majority of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein and Iraqis had something to do with 9/11. Don't believe Canadians are immune to this kind of brainwashing either. They are not and neither are Québécers.skidooman a écrit:Lots of Americans are PISSED with illegal immigration, and the latest attempt to resolve the situation died in Congress.
Now, they will accept a customs union with Mexico?
No way, no how.
Not even in Canada.

michou a écrit:I don't agree skidooman. Americans will buy and believe anything if it is properly marketed to them. Case in point, even today, a vast majority of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein and Iraqis had something to do with 9/11.skidooman a écrit:Lots of Americans are PISSED with illegal immigration, and the latest attempt to resolve the situation died in Congress.
Now, they will accept a customs union with Mexico?
No way, no how.
Not even in Canada.
"There ought to be limits to freedom." Dubya Bush
The more reasons for Americans to buy into it then, especially if they are made to believe that living in a "Fortress North America" will protect them from the UN baddies. As for Canadians and Québécers, we have become so goddammed complacent about everything, anyone could basically do anything they wish with us, our resources, our heritage, our nation, as long as it doesn't affect our routine and our bank account too much. Don't know if it's age or what but I'm becoming more and more cynical about "us" North Americans. I once believed Québécers and many Canadians were different, but now I see that we aren't. As long as we are comfortable and that we feel someone else is taking care of our "security", we might as well be wet noodles on a stick, no backbone in sight whatsoever.skidooman a écrit: But selling something like a political union with Mexico is quite another story. Even now, you have plenty of Americans believing that UN choppers are preparing an invasion. Some even want to shoot on sight any Mexican caught crossing the border illegally.

When our politicians start integrating terms and phrases in their speeches such as the "great North American friendship", then we will know that the branding of a new union and the brainwashing of each nation's population has truly begun.

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