Certainly they government and war profiteers weren't gonna to get carte blanche; it is apparent, again, to even the inexperienced eye that Iraq is a dismal and utter failure. The high cost of today's genocidal wars will not be allowed here ... this past week even the TV commentors are having a feast on Harper’s apparent misunderstanding of what the Canadian people will allow. They do not want their tax dollars being spent on military equipment or troops in some international hotspot; they want dollars for social programs. The last budget saw $8 billion dollars paying off the debt, while thousands go without doctors. Big mistake, Mr. Harper. Our cities go down the drain. Big mistake, Mr. Harper. Our tuition to schools of higher learning go way up. Big mistake, Mr. Harper … and further, Canada, which holds a guess-timated 20% of the world's fresh water (the new GOLD), is not Harper's to give away, no matter WHAT the Centre for Strategic and International Affairs (CSIS) in Washington may want to say about it.  (See below SPP timeline for further information on that).  Mr. Harper, people don't like secret documents about water being passed around Calgary especially done in secret!!!

No one is trusting Harper these days .. his recent visit to South America to do Bush’s dirty work blew up in his face as he rationalized doing business with known human rights abusers. It just didn’t work. Meanwhile, on Canadian soil, a US military presence has been detected, just prior to the SPP summit …. Who invited THEM in ..?

 Canada has pressing demands; embracing corporations and the US war machine is not one of them.

See: The Militarization and Annexation of North America

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6359

Please see the copyright on the article posted at the above URL. 

What to do?

The Stop the SPP committee is probably the oddest coalition of groups EVER assembled in Canadian history. Unions, climate activists, the respectable Council of Canadians, rightwingers, a new national party (the Canadian Action Party) opposed to the SPP/NAU, anticapitalists, the usual anarchists, refugee organizations and groups who say no one is illegal, and the list is broadening daily.

Headlines proclaim that no one KNOWS about the SPP; this is not the case, fighting back against it – a big business, government alliance – is not the uphill fight it is made out to be. Getting a coalition to work together is another story. We are doing what Parliament cannot do -- work together.

Although things might have started peacefully enough with activist progressive holding a quiet soiree at a public hall in Papineuville, Quebec the day before, the government, aided and assisted by the US Army has set a 25-km security perimeter around Montebello.

This prevented even the staid/concerned from discussing the SPP and caused headlines. The hall was made unavailable suddenly. Scholars and citizens were prevented from speaking – but the realization that the US Army, in league with the RCMP and the Quebec local police, was calling the shots got people’s dander up. Vehicles with over five people in them are banned from the area. But the rich, the corporations will be inside the security perimeter conducting business as usual.

The numbers who are bussing into Ottawa grows daily. New plans for bike caravans, river launches and canoes up the Ottawa River are proposed. The US government has the feds closing down the river for the duration. No less than 40 other supportive demonstrations around Canada are planned. This has a momentum that can only be understood by reading THIS:

http://canadians.org/integratethis/backgrounders/index.html

which is a timeline on the SPP since 9/11 ... 

Any threat to public discourse and free speech will not be tolerated in Canada whatever the 3 amigos and cohorts may think about it.

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