Thread: Connie Fogal sets the record straight about the SPP

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Connie Fogal sets the record straight about the SPP
by Connie Fogal Friday January 26, 2007 at 05:56 PM


The NAU and SPP are treacherous

Connie Fogal sets the record straight about the SPP

Here is a copy of an excellent and informative letter to the Editor written by Connie Fogal, the leader of the Canadian Action Party, in response to a column in the Vancouver Sun by Barbara Yaffe. Let us see if they are fair and responsible enough to print it.

Letter to the Editor, January 24, 2007 Re: Barbara Yaffe, Tuesday January 23, 2007, Conspiracy Theorists Given a Free Reign at Continental Pact.

Dear Editor:

I write as the Leader of the Canadian Action Party which was dismissed in the above article along with the Council of Canadians as being a Conspiracy Theorist.

Signed agreements such as NAFTA and the S.P.P. (Security and Prosperity Agreement), the Canada -U.S. Smart Border Declaration, the Competitiveness Council and the Binational Military Planning Group are real policies and agreements, not conspiracies.

The SPP was signed by Prime Minister Martin, President Bush and President Fox in March 2005. It was reaffirmed in April of 2006 by Prime Minister Harper. The S.P.P sanctioned the recommendations of the North American Task force released in May of 2005.

John Manley, a former Liberal Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, now heads the Canada, USA, Mexico Task Force which released its recommendations for a North American continent wide union on May 17/18, 2005. Manley was quoted in All Patriot News in the USA, May 17, 2005. He said, "We are asking the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to be the architects of a new community of North America, not mere custodians of the status quo."

The North American Task Force is comprised of prominent former officials, businessmen, and academics from the three countries; in particular, they are from the U.S.'s Council on Foreign Relations, Canada's Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and Mexico's Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales. These are real people with real names, such as Thomas Axworthy, Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc.,Thomas P. d'Aquino, Professor Wendy K. Dobson, Dr. Robert Pastor (described as the Father of the North American Union by The Free Republic.com), Allan Gotleib, Pierre Marc Johnson, Heenan Blaikie, McCarthy Tetrault, Donner Canada Foundation (to name a few).

The Canada-U.S. Smart Border Declaration was signed December 12, 2001 by Liberal Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Tom Ridge, USA Homeland Security Director. This declaration is a 30 point action plan from which flows the new passport rules, the current voluntary (soon to be mandatory) retinal, fingerprint, and RFID requirements for fast cross border movement, the no fly lists, i.e., listing of people who are not allowed to board any airplane within or out of Canada, USA, or Mexico, the arming of Canadian border guards.

From the S.P.P. flows a 30 member Competitiveness Council comprised of North America's most influential CEO's. Prime Minister Harper sanctioned the 10 person Canadian group whose job is to "advise" him. These unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative live real people are part of the structure that supercedes our governments and is already driving the economic and social policies of three countries beyond the reach of our Members of Parliament.

Barbara Yaffe is completely out of touch with the reality when she says, "The checks and balances are in the parliamentary system." It is not our Parliamentary system that is in play here. This is a shadow government of live people who are usurping our Parliament without any check or balance. They are reshaping Canada, Mexico, and the USA under US dominance into a North American entity that is to be governed by unelected panels and tribunals with no accountability to the people. They intend to operate completely outside the reach of national legal systems and national constitutions. There is to be no democratic process and no sovereignty.

The restructuring is being implemented by current cabinet members and the government bureaucracy, not our parliament! Most Members of Parliament either have no clue about the SPP, or if they do, they silently submit their constituents to this modern form of feudalism.

The harm, the "treason", is that individuals who are and were in Cabinet along with our Prime Ministers, military leaders, academics, leading Corporate representatives, Ambassadors and Consuls General are working in secret creating a North American Fortress and Conquering Empire that will harvest and exploit our national resources, our strategic geography, and our labour/military force profitably for themselves. These are real, live, identifiable humans who meet behind closed doors to decide how the citizens of three proud sovereign countries will be stripped of their constitutional rights and liberties, and made to serve this elite force.

There is a real basis for our claim. It is the leaked document dated August 31, 2006 titled North American Forum Confirmed Participants which was marked "Internal document, Not for Public Release". It listed the participants in that secret meeting conducted in Banff Alberta. Participants from Canada included Hon. Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, Government of Canada; Col. Peter Atkinson, Special advisor to Chief of Defence Staff; Hon Perrin Beatty, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters; Thomas d'Aquino, Canadian Council of Chief Executives; Dr. Wendy Dobson, Institute for International Business; Hon Gordon O'Connor, Minister of Defence, Government of Canada; Hon. Anne McLellan, Senior Counsel, Bennet Jones; General Rick Hillier, Chief of Defence Staff; Mr. Fred Green, Canadian Pacific Railway; Hon John Manley, McCarthy Tetrault LLP; Hon Greg Melchin, Minister of Energy, Government of Alberta; Richard L George, Suncor Energy Inc.; Hon Peter Lougheed (to name a few).

USA participants included Ms Deborah Bolton, Political Advisor to Commander, US Northcom; admiral Tim Keating, Commander US Northern Command; Dr Robert A Pastor, Director , Centre for North American Studies, American University, Washington DC; Donald R Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defence, US Department of Defence; Gen. Gene Renuart, USAF Senior Military Assist. To Sec Rumsfeld, Dr. James Schlesinger, Former Sec of Energy and Defence; Sec Clay Sell, Deputy Secretary of Energy, US Deputy of Energy.

Topics included: A Vision for North America, Toward a North American Energy Strategy, Demographic and Social Dimension of North American Integration, Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity, Military to Military Cooperation.

Our elected Members of Parliament apparently are willing to be assigned to the role of lackeys enjoying their pensions, chasing their tails debating whether Quebec is a sovereign nation in an un-sovereign non-nation, sacrificing the people to an ever lowering standard of living, and relegating nationhood and government to irrelevancy.

Submission to such a scheme is unconstitutional, and undemocratic. It is a betrayal of our history, our citizenship, our tradition, our values, and our way of life. It is not what real Canadians call a "worthy project".

Yours truly,

Connie Fogal

CANADIAN ACTION PARTY/ PARTI ACTION CANADIENNE

Thanks for posting this Jean! We really have to keep an eye on what these guys are up to!

USA participants included Ms Deborah Bolton, Political Advisor to Commander, US Northcom; admiral Tim Keating, Commander US Northern Command; Dr Robert A Pastor, Director , Centre for North American Studies, American University, Washington DC; Donald R Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defence, US Department of Defence; Gen. Gene Renuart, USAF Senior Military Assist. To Sec Rumsfeld, Dr. James Schlesinger, Former Sec of Energy and Defence; Sec Clay Sell, Deputy Secretary of Energy, US Deputy of Energy.

Topics included: A Vision for North America, Toward a North American Energy Strategy, Demographic and Social Dimension of North American Integration, Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity, Military to Military Cooperation.

Our elected Members of Parliament apparently are willing to be assigned to the role of lackeys enjoying their pensions, chasing their tails debating whether Quebec is a sovereign nation in an un-sovereign non-nation, sacrificing the people to an ever lowering standard of living, and relegating nationhood and government to irrelevancy.

Submission to such a scheme is unconstitutional, and undemocratic. It is a betrayal of our history, our citizenship, our tradition, our values, and our way of life. It is not what real Canadians call a "worthy project".


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Sounds like the citizens of Canada do not like this any better than we do

Since these people are employed by the people of this country I would call this little side job a conflict of interest.
It is deffinitly a treasonous act as far as I'm concerned, for federal employees to be in coercion with corporate CEO's to plot to change the structure of our nation without the concent of our elected officals or the citizens for which whom this country belongs, It should be a hanging offence.
these are the most arrogant, dangerous people, if they believe they have the right to sieze a whole nation and treat it as though it belongs to a few elites, we must show them they are wrong.
WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT LET YOU UPSERP ARE RIGHT TO OUR NATION.
YOU DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO HOLD COMMITEES AND MEETINGS, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT BRIBE AND MAKE PLANS FOR OUR COUNTRY WITH OUR ELECTED OFFICALS, ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION WITH OUT OUR CONCENT. THEY OUR EMPLOYED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE NOT FOR THE BENIFIT OF CORPORATIONS OR SELF INTEREST. THIS IS GOING OVER THE LINE TO TREASON!!!BY ALL PARTIES, ELECTED OFFICALS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK FOR CORPORATIONS!!OR FOR JUST SELF INTEREST.

The North American Forum is an annual meeting of U.S., Canadian and Mexican government and business representatives to discuss issues related to continental economic and social integration. The Forum is chaired jointly by former U.S. secretary of state George Shultz, former Mexican finance minister Pedro Aspe, and former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed.

History

The inaugural North American Forum took place in October 2005 in Sonoma, California. Though it brought together a wide range of public officials from all three countries, the proceedings and guest list were kept secret. An October 27, 2005 article in the Financial Post contained a partial list of invited guests, which included former Canadian finance minister John Manley, Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Carlos de Icaza, Chevron CEO David O'Reilly, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey, and a host of U.S. policy advisors to President George W. Bush.

The 2006 North American Forum took place from September 12 to 14 at the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada. It was hosted by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives with help from the Canada West Foundation. Under the title, Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment, the Forum included sessions on "North American Energy Strategy," "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration," and "Border Infrastructure," among other topics.

Similar discussions regularly take place among North American government and business representatives through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. And in a speech to the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance on October 10, 2006, U.S. Consul General John Nay referred to the North American Forum as a "sister organization" and "parallel structure" to the SPP. But as in 2005, the 2006 Forum was not announced to the public or the media and there is no official account of the proceedings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_american_forum

American Participants:

Ms. Deborah Bolton, Political Advisor to Commander, US Northcom; Mr. Ron T. Covais, President, The Americas, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Sec. Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor Emeritus of American & Foreign Law and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School; Mr. Dan Fisk, Senior Director, Western Hemisphere, National Security Council; Sec. Ryan Henry, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Ms. Carla A. Hills, Chairman & CEO, Hills & Co.; Ms. Caryn Hollis, DASD (Acting) Western Hemisphere Affairs; Mr. Bill Irwin, Manager - International Government Affairs; Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron Corporation; Mr. Robert G. James, President, Enterprise Asset Management Inc.; Admiral Tim Keating, Commander, United States Northern Command; Mr. Floyd Kvamme, Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology and Director, Centre for Global Security Res.; Dr. Ronald F. Lehman II, Director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Mr. William W. McIlhenny, Policy Planning Council for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Dr. Peter McPherson, President, National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges; Ms. Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute; Dr. George Miller, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Mr. George Nethercutt, Chairman, US Section of the Permanent Joint Board of Defense, US – Canada (Security); Mary O’Grady, Journalist for Wall Street Journal (Area Specialist); Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University, Washington, DC; Dr. William Perry, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project; Lt. Gen. Gene Renuart, USAF Senior Military Assist. to Sec. Rumsfeld; Mr. Eric Ruff, Department of Defense Press Secretary; Sec. Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense; Dr. James Schlesinger, Former Sec. Of Energy & Defense; Mr. William Schneider, President, International Planning Services; Sec. Clay Sell, Deputy Secretary of Energy, US Dept. of Energy; Dr. Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere A; Dr. David G. Victor, Director, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development, Center for Environmental Science & Policy; Maj. Gen. Mark A Volcheff, Director, Plans, Policy & Strategy, NORAD-NORTHCOM; Ms. Jane Wales, President & CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California; Mr. R. James Woolsey, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton.

Check out the attendees, some very recognizable names.
The links are also interesting.
But remember this is myth, a figment of our imaginations.