These issues are not on the radar at all and as we head into a week of All Candidates forums & debates and a final week before we go to the ballot box, this has become one of the pressing issues of this election.
Ask the candidates where do their parties stand on the Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP)? Anything less than scrapping it will not do.
Where do the parties stand on Canada's "Deep Integration" with the European Union?
Parties must push for the draft of this agreement to be released by the Harper government and must fight against this Canada-EU agreement.
Where do the parties stand on Canada's "Deep Integration" with the United States of America, the North American Union?
What is at stake?
~ Canadian sovereignty forever
~ Canadian natural and human resources & capital
~ Canadian water, electricity & hydro
~ Canadian ownership and decision-making of our health care system & services
~ Canadians being sued in our own courts by foreign corporations for protecting Canadian businesses and domestic ownership of our industries and systems. Canada is already being sued under NAFTA by American corporations that want to expand private health clinics, turning our national health care system into a for-profit industry for American corporations. Ask yourself, do you want American-style health care here in Canada?
These agreements will affect every facet of Canadians lives - work, employment & income, water, energy, security, military, more involvement in more American wars, civil & human rights & liberty, safety, regulations & inspection standards, transportation & border mobility & costs, identification & freedom of Canadian citizens.
Integrate This: Challenging the Security & Prosperity Partnership
Integrate This! is about challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), an executive-level pact between the governments and corporate sectors of Canada, the United States and Mexico, which has never been debated publicly or voted on in any of the three countries. There are over 300 initiatives in the SPP aimed at harmonizing North American policies on:
work, employment & income, water, energy, security, military, more involvement in more American wars, civil & human rights & liberty, safety, regulations & inspection standards, transportation & border mobility & costs, drugs/pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, trade, immigration, the environment, standards & industry regulation, personal identification & freedom
Behind Closed Doors: What they're not telling us about the Security And Prosperity Partnership (PDF 10.7 MB)
Deep Integration
Canada and the European Union (EU) are set to begin preliminary discussions on deeper economic integration a mere three days after the election. It has been reported that the proposed trade deal will far exceed NAFTA. Some see this as an opportunity to possibly update the 15 year-old accord. Stephen Harper is busy telling Canadians that only a Conservative majority government will be able to bring confidence back and stabilize the economy. That is why I find it a little strange that this has not become a pillar of the Conservatives economic platform. Harper has decided not to release the full text of the draft proposal until after the election on October 14. The reality is that such an agreement with the EU will be no different than NAFTA in the sense that it will be used to further advance corporate interests.
Canada-EU trade proposal rivals scope of NAFTA
DOUG SAUNDERS. On-line 18/09/08 02:00 AM
LONDON — Canadian and European officials say they plan to begin negotiating a massive agreement to integrate Canada's economy with the 27 nations of the European Union, with preliminary talks to be launched at an Oct. 17 summit in Montreal three days after the federal election.
A newly completed study of the proposed deal, which European officials said Prime Minister Stephen Harper decided not to release until after the election, concludes that the pact would increase bilateral trade and investment by at least $40-billion a year, mainly in trade in services.
Ottawa officials say they have overcome what they see as their biggest hurdle: the resistance of provincial governments to an agreement that would force them to allow European corporations to provide their government services, if their bids are the lowest.
Although Ottawa’s current list of foreign-policy priorities does not include European issues, European and Canadian officials say Mr. Harper has been heavily engaged with the proposed trade pact.
Europe to Canada: Get your act together
DOUG SAUNDERS (dsaunders@globeandmail.com)
October 4, 2008
Excerpt:
BRUSSELS -- The two presidents of the European Union will arrive in Montreal on the Friday after Canada's Oct. 14 federal election for a meeting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has studiously avoided mentioning.
That night, the three of them will announce the economic and political engagement of the two federations. They still haven't agreed on the name of the thing, though they are leaning toward Economic Partnership Agreement.
It will just be the preliminaries, but many people hope it will result, after a period of talks, in the consummation of a complex and potent marriage between Europe and Canada.
Two weeks ago, when I revealed that there had been months of secret meetings, led by Quebec officials and involving serious engagement by Mr. Harper and Mr. Sarkozy, to arrange what some European officials call "deep integration" talks, the idea proved to be enormously popular with Canadians.
"Deep Integration": Timeline of the Progress Toward a North American Union
by Vive le Canada. Global Research, December 20, 2006.
North American Union (NAU)
The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical continental union of Canada, Mexico and the United States similar in structure to the European Union, sometimes including a common currency called the Amero.
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ACTION ALERT: Release the Canada-EU 'deep economic integration' text!
September 18, 2008
As reported in the Globe and Mail on September 18, "Canadian and European officials say they plan to begin negotiating a massive agreement to integrate Canada's economy with the 27 nations of the European Union, with preliminary talks to be launched at an Oct. 17 summit in Montreal three days after the federal election." The article continues, "...a senior EU official involved in the talks described (them) as 'deep economic integration negotiations.'”
DEAL WOULD EXCEED SCOPE OF NAFTA
The article states, "The proposed pact would far exceed the scope of older agreements such as NAFTA by encompassing not only unrestricted trade in goods, services and investment and the removal of tariffs, but also the free movement of skilled people and an open market in government services and procurement – which would require that Canadian governments allow European companies to bid as equals on government contracts for both goods and services and end the favouring of local or national providers of public-sector services."
TEXT OF THE DEAL WON'T BE RELEASED DURING THE ELECTION
The Globe reports, “Because of the election, Mr. Harper appears to have decided not to unveil a full text of the proposed agreement, but instead to use the summit to inaugurate the trade talks with the launch of a 'scoping exercise' that will quickly set the goals of the pact and lead to formal 'comprehensive trade and investment negotiations' to begin in 'early 2009,' according to communications between senior Canadian and European officials examined by The Globe and Mail…The two governments have completed a detailed study of the proposed agreement that will be unveiled shortly after the election, should the Conservatives win. Both Ottawa and Brussels have had staff work on a draft text for a deal they had hoped would be introduced at a Canada-EU summit, to be attended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Mr. Harper in Montreal on Oct. 17.”
BIG BUSINESS BACKS THE DEAL
While the public has not been allowed to see the study or the draft text, apparently large corporations have. The article notes, "Proponents, including all of Canada's major business-lobby organizations, are in favour of the deal..."
TAKE ACTION
E-mail Prime Minister Stephen Harper at pm@pm.gc.ca today and demand that the full text of the proposed agreement and the detailed study of it be released immediately.
cc.Stephane Dion, Liberal Party of Canada, Dion.S@parl.gc.ca; Jack Layton, New Democratic Party of Canada, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca; Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Québécois, Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca; Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada, leader@greenparty.ca.
The full article can be read here.
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Layton would reopen NAFTA negotiations
Title: Layton would reopen NAFTA negotiations
Topic: Globalisation and Trade
Written By: NAUWATCH
Date: Sunday, September 28 at 09:47
An NDP government would fight to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement to enhance protection for Canadian jobs, NDP leader Jack Layton said yesterday in Hamilton, Ont.
"We want a new NAFTA. We want a North American fair trade agreement," Layton told supporters. "We want a fair deal, not a sellout."
With the prospect of the reopening of NAFTA if the Democrats win the U.S. election, Layton said his party, among other things, would fight to add "meaningful" labour and environmental standards to the deal - and reform the energy provisions, which require the export of fossil fuels to the United States.
Layton's plan would remove NAFTA's contentious "Chapter 11" provision that permits foreign investors to legally challenge Canadian policies if it threatens their investments.
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Please consider all of this as we prepare to vote.
Our current Prime Minister, Stephen Harper & his (neo)Conservative minions have been having secret meetings for months to create this agreement with the European Union. We go to the ballot box in one week (some have already voted in advanced polls) & THE MAN WHO LEADS OUR NATION HAS NOT AND DOES NOT PLAN TO MENTION, OR RELEASE THE DRAFT AGREEMENT FOR DEEP INTEGRATION OF CANADA INTO THE EUROPEAN UNION. IS THIS THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP CANADA NEEDS? THIS IS NO LITTLE OVERSIGHT, OUR PRIME MINISTER IS LITERALLY HANDING CANADA OVER TO OTHER NATIONS ON A PLATTER, BOTH THE UNITED STATES & THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. I'VE GOT A FEW CHOICE ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS TO ME, HOW ABOUT YOU?
PLEASE DON'T LET STEPHEN HARPER GET AWAY WITH THIS, HELP KEEP CANADA A SOVEREIGN NATION.
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