butterbean
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject: Economic Ties to U.S. Riding on Super Highway |
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A month ago, at the luxurious Banff Springs Hotel, Stockwell Day, John P. Manley, Gordon O’Connor, Peter Lougheed, and Anne McLennan — all past and present ministers in Canadian governments — met a couple of dozen high-ranking government and corporate officials from the U.S. and Mexico to discuss the formation of a North American Union.
The three-day meeting — including people as prominent as U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — was about pushing the NAFTA free trade agreement to the next level, the commercial, financial, and monetary integration of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.
Don’t blame this sell-out of Canada on Stephen Harper. On March 23, 2005, in Waco, Texas, then Liberal prime minister Paul Martin, standing beside Presidents George W. Bush of the U.S. and Vincente Fox of Mexico, announced their agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
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http://www.cowichannewsleader.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=9&cat=48&id=757217&more |
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