The NAFTA highways are not just highways but would contain water pipelines etc. One concern in Canada is that scarce resources such as water will be subject to US demands as the US itself is unable to supply its own needs. As with oil and gas under NAFTA Canada would be unable to set its own price or even deny resources to the US but is forced by the trade agreement to share equally and at prices not higher than Canadians pay.
The recent meeting at Montebello in Quebec with all its protests was part of the SPP and the NACC were there.
Here is the website for SPP. http://www.spp.gov/
Note that although this is a tripartite process involving Mexico, Canada, and the US only the US flag appears on the home page website.
The Green Party has a TV presentation on the SPP including the superhighways as well as power point presentation by Janet Eaton.
http://www.greenparty.ca/files/Threats_to_our_Water.ppt
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/documents/deeper_look_spp/dr_janet_eaton
Cheers, Ken Hanly --- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> I want to thank B. for an update on the I-35 angle
> on this NAFTA
> superhighway stuff. From what I understood, there
> was an effort to widen
> I-35 from Texas to Canada. I had confused some
> elements of the
> Trans-Texas Corridor with the purported plans being
> pushed by the
> right-wingers.
>
> Here is a recent Nation issue on this topic:
>
> The NAFTA Superhighway
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070827/hayes
>
> And an article from a right-wing think tank:
>
> Miracle on I-35
> Think free trade is hollowing out the economy? Take
> a look at Kansas
> City, one of the nation's newest trading powerhouses
>
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3572957.html
>
> It may be true that there is no concrete (pardon the
> pun) plan to widen
> I-35 from Texas to Canada, but we shouldn't be so
> quick to dismiss this
> all as right wing anti-immigration hysteria.
>
> There may be no plan to widen I-35, but are the
> capitalists creating
> free trade corridors such as I-35 without making it
> official? Perhaps
> this isn't as important as it sounds, but there are
> projects in the
> works like the Kansas City Smart Port
> (http://www.kcsmartport.com/).
> Conspiracy theorists and right wingers are not (for
> the most part)
> building the new intermodal facilities in Kansas
> City and other cities.
> There are capitalists promoting the improvement of
> infrastructure along
> this corridor.
>
> There may not be an evil conspiracy here and this is
> too wrapped up in
> anti-immigration hysteria, but some of these
> projects exist. I guess the
> question for us might be: Is any of this uniquely
> important to warrant
> our interest or is it all just part of the bigger
> globalization picture?
>
> Chuck
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