Thread: Canadian Council challenges continental integration plan

[08-May-06] Council challenges Ambassador Wilkins on continental integration plan


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May 8, 2006

Council challenges Ambassador Wilkins on continental integration plan

Ottawa - The Council of Canadians has a message for Ambassador David Wilkins who will be speaking today to Canadian businesses involved in the security industry about the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership. The organization plans to present the Ambassador with a letter expressing its strong opposition to the deal negotiated in Cancun by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, President Bush and Vincente Fox.

“The Canadian public was not consulted and there has been no parliamentary debate on this plan developed by our governments behind closed doors,” says Brent Patterson, director of organizing at the Council of Canadians. In Cancun, only representatives of large corporations were allowed to sit at the table with the three leaders. “We are taking this opportunity to let the American government know how Canadians outside the big business community feel,” says Patterson.

The organization is part of a larger movement of civil society organizations across Canada who have expressed concerns about the harmonization of Canadian domestic and foreign policies with those of the United States. From November 2004 to March 2005, the Council of Canadians toured the country to consult Canadians of all walks of life on the issue of continental integration. A report of their findings was released in October 2005.

“Increasing public disapproval of foreign policy initiatives such as the mission in Afghanistan shows that the majority of Canadians, unlike Stephen Harper, do not want our country engaged in the so-called war on terror,” says Patterson. “We do not share Bush’s vision of global security and the Canadian government has failed to represent the interests of the general Canadian public in its meetings with the U.S. government.”

The public advocacy group hopes Ambassador Wilkins will take its message to Washington.
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Hope they keep it up too!

The Canadian public was not consulted and there has been no parliamentary debate on this plan developed by our governments behind closed doors,” says Brent Patterson, director of organizing at the Council of Canadians. In Cancun, only representatives of large corporations were allowed to sit at the table with the three leaders. “We are taking this opportunity to let the American government know how Canadians outside the big business community feel,” says Patterson

And friends, the majority of Americans and LEGAL immigrants agree with you! We weren't consulted either.

Originally Posted by curiouspat

The Canadian public was not consulted and there has been no parliamentary debate on this plan developed by our governments behind closed doors,” says Brent Patterson, director of organizing at the Council of Canadians. In Cancun, only representatives of large corporations were allowed to sit at the table with the three leaders. “We are taking this opportunity to let the American government know how Canadians outside the big business community feel,” says Patterson

And friends, the majority of Americans and LEGAL immigrants agree with you! We weren't consulted either.

EXACTLY!!!

We are taking this opportunity to let the American government know how Canadians outside the big business community feel,” says Patterson.

Hope our government listens to the Canadians because they don't listen to us their loyal subjects!

The Canadian people are beginning to see the crap Americans have had to put up with from an administration characterized by miserablly failed foreign and domestic policies that is attempting North American hegemony. They see first hand the effects on the U.S. caused by unchecked immigration from an economically depressed third world toilet of a nation that is still routed in the 19th century and whose population hasn't graduated from high schooi and has a collective intelligence no higher than the fruits and vegetables they pick. Canadians see we are importing filthy, diseased, poverty and crime ridden people who are far more of a burden on society than they are contributors. Our neighbors to the north see our once clean and safe neighborhoods being transformed into third world barrios replete with guns, gangs, drugs and crime with Americans being victimized by the thousands. If our Canadian neighbors know what is good for them they will tell Harper to tell our jackass administration to leave them out or they will face the same fate as we are now.

Looking at the photos of that prime minister of Canada in Cancun, he did not look like he was going for it, he did not have the look of confidence that Bush and Fox did on his face. He looked like he was being railroaded into something he did not want to do. That may work for us.

My only concern is that Canadians are also dancing to the tune of the Globalists!

Go Canadian people

I do not know about the government (probably not listening much like our own) but if the Canadian people are going to jump on the bandwagon to stop this insanity I am all for it.

Well they are on the web as well, some of them may be looking at this website and seeing what we are dealing with as that is what will happen to them if this goes through.

How come we don't hear of some group like that (how about a Council of Americans?) in the U.S. saying that? Who are the Council of Canadians?