Any threat to public discourse and free speech will not be tolerated in Canada whatever the 3 amigos and cohorts may think about it.
Crucial issues at the heart of this "partnership": the accelerated extraction and delivery of Canadian oil and water resources to the US economy; a deepening of economic partnership with the US conditional to a war-driven foreign policy; the pretext of "national security" to justify the secrecy surrounding the precise nature of the discussions and the deals made.
Guaranteeing and increasing the profits of the largest corporations In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, George W. Bush declared "[E]ither you are with us, or you are with the terrorists". That year, the only directive given to Paul Celluci, as he became US Ambassador to Canada, was to do whatever he could to bring about a major increase in Canadian military spending. And Harper has now made a huge commitment to this.
Harper is not loved in the Canadian press; he has made it so by playing martinette .. making himself PRIME Minister to the demise of his own cabinet. He is not loved, nor charming. His ties to business become clearer day by day.
There is a menacing tone to all this: unless Canada adopted the same "security" agenda as the US, our trade relations would suffer. Thus security trumps trade. Canada is falling quickly into the trumps game in which Bush and Cheney have been the masters …
In August, two unelected Presidents and a minority Prime Minister meet in Quebec (we think, maybe not? maybe Ottawa? the people are being "toyed with") with their royal cortege of business princelings, attended by high level bureaucrats who have decided to remain publically mute will hold court in Quebec.
Who invited THEM anyway ..?
They are about to find out we do not want them HERE.
Letters are being written, phone calls are being made, the media at all locales contacted, plans are laid.
People are learning to work together and the decision has been made to allow ALL forms of protest whatever conditions are handed out. We just do not wish to expose young people to tasars, tear gas and worse.
Stay tuned as the US attempts to highjack and annex Canada ...
See www.yaya.ca to see how we are faring. And edujumacate yourself on the SPP .. it will effect you, too and most of the globe if we let its legacy prevail after 23 May 2005 in Waco ..
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