'Three Amigos' to order new border crisis rules

[CHIMO]

Source: Canadian press

OTTAWA – Stephen Harper and his fellow North American leaders will wrap up their summit Tuesday with a call for a new border disaster protocol to avoid a repeat of the crippling tie-ups that occurred after 9-11, The Canadian Press has learned.

The final communiqué from the two-day summit will include an order from Harper, U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to their respective cabinet ministers to create new border regulations for emergencies, said sources in two countries.

The border announcement is one of several expected at the summit. The leaders also plan to announce that they will recognize the research of each country's food and drug regime in an effort to reduce costs and avoid duplication.

The group comprises leaders from 10 companies in each country and includes corporations like Wal-Mart, General Electric and weapons-maker Lockheed Martin. They advise the three national governments on facilitating trade.



Read more: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/247815

---

That's called executive power or executive privilege.

Doesn't matter, we get screwed either way.

[orleans]

1. .

"OTTAWA — A loud, but peaceful, crowd gathered Sunday on Parliament Hill to oppose talks on continental integration while anarchists claimed responsibility for weekend vandalism against Ottawa businesses connected to the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

"Between 1,000 to 2,000 demonstrators — guarded by a sizable police presence — got a head start on the North American leaders’ summit, which begins Monday in Montebello, Que. with meetings between Stephen Harper, George W. Bush, and Felipe Calderon.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=34d5a1b4-ac95-4f1c-bab3-96b99d4e7086&k=46766

[CHIMO]

2. And Some More

Protests begin before Montebello summit

"These people don't care about you, and they don't care about your quality of life, and they don't care about food safety, and they don't care about true security," Ms. Barlow told the crowd.

"They only care about making money.

"And the only way they could do it was to make an agreement with the Bush government that they would help to spread Bush's war on terror and help to create a Fortress North America."

While both leaders have said they plan to fight greenhouse-gas increases, the group notes that they both oppose the Kyoto accord and both favour oil-sands development.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070819.wmontebello0819/BNStory/National/home

[Proletariatprincess]

3. I hope we get some media coverage of this event.,.....

but I am not hopeful....nor do I expect any coverage to be serious and thoughtful. I have a very bad feeling about all of this.

[Mojorabbit]

4. These advisory leaders

are corporations?

[0007]

7. Good question....but I don't think they're mon & pops shops for America.

'Tis like saying the "Working Class" is the "Middle Class". Everything is always in favor of small business, 'eh? Does Wall Mart...comes to mind?

Big business is what? Small Business talk crammed down our throats, while the politicians pick our pockets in the name of big business.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Canada's Sovereignty in Jeopardy: the Militarization of North America

Montebello SPP Summit: Canada's Sovereignty in Jeopardy: the Militarization of North America

by Michel Chossudovsky

SNIP

Canadian Sovereignty

In August 2006, the US State Department confirmed that a new NORAD Agreement had entered into force, while emphasizing that "the maritime domain awareness component was of 'indefinite duration,' albeit subject to periodic review." (US Federal News, 1 August 2006). In March 2007, the US Senate Armed Services Committee confirmed that the NORAD Agreement had been formally renewed, to include a maritime warning system. In Canada, in contrast, there has been a deafening silence.

In Canada, the renewed NORAD agreement went virtually unnoticed. There was no official pronouncement by the Canadian government of Stephen Harper. There was no analysis or commentary of its significance and implications for Canadian territorial sovereignty. The agreement was barely reported by the Canadian media.

Operating under a "North American" emblem (i.e. a North American Command), the US military would have jurisdiction over Canadian territory from coast to coast; extending from the St Laurence Valley to the Queen Elizabeth archipelago in the Canadian Arctic. The agreement would allow for the establishment of "North American" military bases on Canadian territory. From an economic standpoint, it would also integrate the Canadian North, with its vast resources in energy and raw materials, with Alaska.

Ottawa's Military Facility in Resolute Bay

Ottawa's July 2007 decision to establish a military facility in Resolute Bay in the Northwest Passage was not intended to reassert "Canadian sovereignty. In fact quite the opposite. It was established in consultation with Washington. A deep-water port at Nanisivik, on the northern tip of Baffin Island is also envisaged.

The US administration is firmly behind the Canadian government's decision. The latter does not "reassert Canadian sovereignty". Quite the opposite. It is a means to eventually establish US territorial control over Canada's entire Arctic region including its waterways. This territory would eventually fall under the jurisdiction of US Northern Command (NORTHCOM).

The Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP)

The Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP) signed between the US, Canada and Mexico contemplates the formation of a North American Union (NAU), a territorial dominion, extending from the Caribbean to the Canadian arctic territories.

The SPP is closely related to the Binational Planning Group initiative. An Independent Task Force sponsored by The Council on Foreign Relations calls for the transformation of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) into a "multiservice Defense Command". The CFR document entitled "North American Community" drafted on behalf of the SPP endorses the BPG March 2006 recommendations:

"As recommended in a report of the Canadian-U.S. Joint Planning Group , NORAD should evolve into a multiservice Defense Command that would expand the principle of Canadian-U.S. joint command to land and naval as well as air forces engaged in defending the approaches to North America. In addition, Canada and the United States should reinforce other bilateral defense institutions, including the Permanent Joint Board on Defense and Joint Planning Group, and invite Mexico to send observers.

(North American Community, Task Force documented sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) together with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales)

The accession of Canada to this Multiservice Defense Command, as recommended by the CFR, has already been established, signed and sealed, approved by the Canadian Parliament in May 2006, in the context of the renewal of the NORAD agreement.

In all likelihood, the formal merging of "the renewed NORAD" and US NORTHCOM will be on the agenda at the August Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP) Summit meeting of President Bush, Prime Minister Harper and President Calderon at Montebello, Quebec. This decision would lead to the formation of a US-Canada NORTHCOM, with a new name, but with substantially the same NORTHCOM rhetorical mandate of "defending the Northern American Homeland" against terrorist attacks. The military of both the US and Canada would also be called to play an increasing role in civilian law enforcement activities.

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6572

[jody]

6. It would be ironic if Canada approved marijuana for medicinal purposes. n/t

[arikara]

8. It is legal in Canada

Medical marijuana has been approved and even recreational use has basically been decriminalized for years.

[jody]

9. Thanks. Would that mean under Bush's order that medical marijuana is accepted in the U.S.? n/t