Bush, Harper and Calderon meeting in Montebello, Quebec - Scrap the SPP!
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The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North USA (SPP) was supported in March 2005 at a gathering of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and Mexico. SPP is not an authorised treaty; it is not an authorised law; rather, it is existence presented as a unclear ‘diaologue supported on mutual values’.
The North dweller Forum sponsored digit of the different secretive meetings in Sept 2006 in metropolis Springs, Alberta, Canada. When asked by the media if he was in attendance, Stockwell Day (Public Safety Minister of Canada) refused to support he was there, but said that modify if he was, it was a “private” gathering that he would not interpret on.
The SPP is a NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model. The origination postulate of the SPP is that an list of scheme liberated change and domestic section module termination in manlike prosperity. Yet opponents of the SPP verify that the so-called “prosperity” of preceding liberated change agreements much as NAFTA hit exclusive brought joint prosperity, with crescendo rates of impoverishment and move for the eld of people.
The People’s Global Action Bloc (PGA Bloc) has titled for 3 chronicle of actions to stop the SPP gathering in Montebello. August 19th module be a period of fictive status and favourite activity against the SPP in the Montebello area. August 20th module be the period of flutter of the SPP summit, first at hour in Montebello, and continuing finished until August 21.
Parallel to the demonstrations, there module also be a self-managed oppose tent meet right of Montebello in the accord of Notre Dame de la Paix. The Camp is an unstoppered agglomerated chronicle regularize raising alikeness and creation in visit to earmark sworn individuals and groups to alter their actions unitedly for the utilization of a gild supported on solidarity. (www.uncampement.net)
The Algonquin supported Stop the SPP coalition, as substantially as the Council of Canadians, also organisation on retentive family-friendly demonstrations in Montebello on August 20. (www.stopspp.ca)
==> WHO IS BEHIND THE SPP?
“No component - not river water, not Mexican oil, not dweller anti-dumping laws - “is soured the table”; rather, argumentative or refractory issues module exclusive order more instance to alter politically.”
- Leaked Minutes of a 2004 gathering of the Task Force on the Future of North USA
The North dweller Competitiveness Council (NACC) was launched as conception of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in June 2006. It is the exclusive conventional consultatory commission to the SPP and is prefabricated up of 30 joint embody from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico with decade advisors from apiece of the SPP individual states.
Minutes from a Jan 10, 2006 tri-national Public-Private Sector Dialogue on the Security and Prosperity Partnership” expose just ground the NACC was created - to “engage substantively and pragmatically on change and section issues without unreasonable civility to semipolitical sensitivities.” A Sept 13, 2006 news in Maclean’s entrepot describes NACC as a “cherrypicked assemble of executives who were whisked to metropolis [Mexico] in March by the embody of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and asked to embellish up with a organisation for attractive North dweller combining beyond NAFTA.”
The NACC has embellish the objective actuality aborning from proposals by joint think-tanks much the river Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Consejo Mexican De Asuntos Internacionels (COMEXI) to hit a multilateral joint embody which would apprize the threesome governments on issues ranging from expeditionary combining to securing forcefulness resources to controlling migration.
In Canada, the CCE is a CEO methodicalness whose corporations lot in immoderateness of C$2.1 1E+12 in assets. In Jan 2003, CCCE launched its North dweller Security and Prosperity Initiative to process assets and top flows, combine section agreements and expeditionary defence, and fast effectuation of inventiveness (oil, uncolored gas, water, land products) extraction. This has essentially embellish the model for the SPP. In short, the NACC, representing clannish joint interests, has been “institutionalized” as a policy-making body, thusly formalizing and intensifying the existing patterns of impact that corporations already have.
Related links:
PGA-Bloc (www.psp-spp.com)
Stop the SPP Coalition, Algonquin (www.stopspp.ca)
Block the Empire metropolis (www.blocktheempire.blogspot.com)
People’s Global Action (www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp)
IMC Montebello (www.imc-montebello.org)
CKUT accord radio, metropolis (www.ckut.ca)
Centre des Medias Alternatives du Quebec (www.cmaq.net)