Both TILMA and the SPP are being pushed by big business interests. The NDP opposes the SPP. The Birchers are right everything is done in secret. However, I think that the Canadian cops will be able to control the perimeter which is quite far from Montebello itself --and it is being enforced. A demonstration by the Council of Canadians was not allowed because it was within the security perimeter.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: "Bill Hahn" <bhahn at jbs.org>
> Date: August 16, 2007 5:42:40 PM EDT
> To: "Bill Hahn" <bhahn at jbs.org>
> Subject: What's happening at the closed SPP meeting?
>
> In light of President Bush's Security and Prosperity
> Partnership (SPP)
> meeting this weekend in Montebello, Quebec, The John
> Birch Society (JBS)
> offers an opportunity to interview John McManus,
> President of JBS.
> He'll help listeners understand the North American
> Union (NAU) and the
> SPP connection. John will be visiting Montebello
> this weekend and will
> attend meetings with various groups opposed to the
> NAU, including the
> U.S.-based Coalition to Block the North American
> Union, of which JBS is
> a member.
>
> Contact me today to schedule an interview upon
> John's return next week.
> More info about the NAU follows below or also at
> www.jbs.org/nau.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Bill
>
> Bill Hahn
> Public Relations Manager
> The John Birch Society
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> What's happening at the closed SPP meeting?
>
> President Bush is attending a meeting of the
> Security and Prosperity
> Partnership with the Canadian Prime Minister and the
> Mexican President
> this weekend in Montebello, Quebec. Suspicions have
> been raised
> regarding what is being discussed, since it is a
> closed meeting and
> since the SPP seeks to merge systems of the three
> countries. Rumor has
> it that the U.S. military will be on hand to enforce
> a border around the
> town. What's happening at the closed SPP meeting?
> This is the third
> SPP meeting in the last three years. All we are
> told is that security
> and trade issues are being discussed.
>
> But if you visit the U.S. Commerce Department's
> official SPP web site
> (www.SPP.gov) and look to see all that it wants to
> accomplish, there's
> no way to achieve these goals without harmonizing
> the laws and
> regulations of the three countries...meaning a loss
> of sovereignty and
> eventually individual freedoms, much like what the
> European Union is
> undergoing.
>
> The SPP was born out of the North American Free
> Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
> which is documented to have cost more than a million
> American jobs. As
> many as 40 million more jobs could be lost in the
> next decade or two,
> due to free trade, of which NAFTA is a part. Work
> has already begun on
> highways (Trans Texas Corridor) that would link the
> three countries
> under the guise of free trade.
>
> But don't take our word for it. Consider these
> statements from North
> American leaders:
> "As to what kind of [North American] union might
> there be, I see one
> based upon free trade, that would then entail
> commitment to markets and
> democracy, transparency, rule of law."-President
> George Bush (3/23/05)
>
> "We are determined to forge the next generation of
> our continent's
> success.... The security and prosperity partnership
> that we are
> launching today is the road map to getting
> there."-Former Canadian Prime
> Minister Paul Martin, (3/23/05)
>
> "Eventually our long-range objective is to establish
> with the United
> States, but also with Canada, our other regional
> partner, an ensemble of
> connections and institutions similar to those
> created by the European
> Union."-Former Mexican President Vicente Fox
> (5/16/02)
>
> The Coalition to Block the NAU will hold a press
> conference Monday,
> August 20 at 11:00 am ET, at the Marriott Ottawa
> Hotel. John will be
> participating with Howard Phillips and Jerome Corsi
> (author of the
> bestseller The Late Great USA).
>
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