New documents obtained by the Council of Canadians provide damning evidence of how
North American integration is being carried out by stealth. They describe a series of
closed-door meetings with government officials and business leaders from Canada,
Mexico and the United States to discuss everything from bulk water exports to a joint
security perimeter and a continental resource pact, all with the explicit aim of helping
executive-level politicians further integrate our three countries.
Under the title North American Future 2025 Project, the U.S. Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS), in collaboration with the Conference Board of Canada and
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), is currently holding a series of
“closed-door roundtable sessions” with government “practitioners” and private sector
“stakeholders” in order to “strengthen the capacity of Canadian, U.S., and Mexican
administration officials and that of their respective legislatures to analyze, comprehend,
and anticipate North American integration” (emphasis ours).
According to leaked documents obtained by the Council of Canadians:
- Bulk water exports are being discussed: A roundtable on the “Future of the
North American Environment,” planned for Friday April 27, 2007 in Calgary, will
discuss “water consumption, water transfers and artificial diversions of bulk
water” with the aim of achieving “joint optimum utilization of the available water.”
Since water was included as a “good,” a “service,” and an “investment” in
NAFTA, once Canada begins exporting fresh water to the U.S. for commercial
purposes, the tap can’t be turned off.
- The Canadian government is intimately involved: “To adhere to the desired
time line for this project,” the CSIS report will, “derive its assumptions from
existing projection scenarios
relevant future-looking work dealing with each
of the six topics upon which the three governments have agreed—namely, labor
mobility, energy, the environment, competitiveness, and border infrastructure and
logistics” (emphasis ours). These are exactly the same policy areas currently
being integrated between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. through executive level,
closed-door meetings of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
America (SPP), agreed to by the leaders of all three countries in March 2005.
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