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How come no one in the administration will admit to this :???: If its true Rumsfeld was at the meeting- doesn't this show an administration push?....Are these folks selling out National Sovereignty for the almighty Multinational Corporates dollars. :???:

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Economic ties to U.S. riding super highway



By Don

Cowichan Valley News Leader

Oct 25 2006

Canada



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.



In spite of that announcement corporate and political leaders now deny any agreement at all, it was just an arrangement for continued dialogue.



Mimicking the Liberals, Harper met during March 2006, in Cancun, Mexico, with Bush and Fox to celebrate the still-being-born North American Union which would eliminate borders and strip Canada down to U.S. non-regulation of commerce, non-protection of the environment, less-than-minimal social safety net and health care and a further destruction of union wages and working conditions.



The first massive project being built is the NAFTA Super Highway. A new corporation, Kansas City (Missouri) Smart Port, Inc., will oversee the construction and operation of a super “port” 1,200 kilometres from the ocean.



The NAFTA Super Highway will start at the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas in southern Mexico where the flood of Chinese-made goods will be loaded onto Kansas City Southern Railway de Mexico and shipped non-stop to Kansas City.



Loading Chinese shipping containers onto U.S. rail cars in Mexico will by-pass the expensive longshoremen in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.



A portion of the Kansas City port will be declared Mexican territory and custom inspections will take place there instead of at the border.



Another non-profit corporation, North America’s Super Corridor Coalition, has the job of building an “international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system” from Lazaro Cardenas through Kansas City and up to Winnipeg. This will allow Mexican trucks to haul sealed shipping containers along a 12-lane superhighway through the heartland of North America, from Mexico to Canada.



Canada is plugging its oil and natural gas, its water and grain, minerals and lumber, not to mention Canadian consumers, into the North American distribution system dominated by the U.S.



Our experience with NAFTA judicial panels, meat inspection and Mad Cow disease, the Afghan war, and the softwood lumber deal should convince us that Canada will be on the short end of the NAFTA Super Highway.



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