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Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

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The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, founded March 23, 2005 by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States, was born in response to the evident necessity for the North American continent to take new steps to address the threat of terrorism and to enhance the security, competitiveness and quality of life of their countries' citizens.

History

President Bush of the USA, President Fox of Mexico, and Prime Minister Martin of Canada announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, United States.

Goals and purpose

Through the SPP, the United States, Canada, and Mexico allegedly seek to:

Establish a cooperative approach to advance in common security and prosperity.

Promote economic growth, competitiveness, and quality of life.

Develop a common security strategy to further secure North America, focusing on:

Securing North America from external threats.

Preventing and responding to threats within North America.

Streamlining the secure and efficient movement of legitimate and low-risk traffic across shared borders.

The stated goals of the SPP are:

cooperation and information sharing
Improving productivity.
Reducing the costs of trade.
Enhancing the joint stewardship of the environment, facilitating agricultural trade while creating a safer and more reliable food supply, and protecting people from disease.
The SPP is based on the principle that prosperity is dependent on security, and recognizes that the three nations are bound by a shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions. It is intended to complement, rather than replace, existing bilateral and trilateral institutions like NAFTA and is a step forward making a blueprint for a further North American Community.

Criticism

The SPP has received some criticism from conservative commentators within the United States, such as Phyllis Schlafly, and Human Events Magazine, on the grounds that they believe it will lead to an erosion of US sovereignty. In particular, they have expressed concern over position papers of the Council on Foreign Relations, which they perceive as advocating policies which would lead to integrated continental court systems and currency. These concerns have not received wide support. However, this could simply be a function of the lack of widespread awareness of the pact as it has not been widely discussed in the major press outlets and general public awareness is therefore limited.

It should be noted that this issue has not been addressed by the United States Congress or the Supreme Court.

In Canada, criticism of the SPP has come from left-wing organizations such as the Council of Canadians and Common Frontiers. Like U.S. conservatives, these groups are concerned with the complete absence of public involvement in trinational discussions whose goal, they say, is the "deep integration" of Canada with the United States. But the Canadian criticism has more to do with the emphasis on deregulation and harmonization of standards implicit in the SPP. The Council of Canadians has argued that this push towards economic union "will lead to the privatization of [Canada's] health care, the loss of control of our resources, further compromises in trade deals like what we have seen with the United States-Canada softwood lumber dispute."

Canadian criticism has also been directed at the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), a committee made up of 10 CEOs each from Mexico, the United States and Canada, which has been asked to reduce the over 300 recommendations in the SPP down to about 30 achievable goals. NACC members include CEOs from Wal-Mart, Chevron, Lockheed Martin, FedEx, General Electric and Ford, among others. Of the ten Canadian CEOs on the NACC, nine are members of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the driving force behind the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Canadian representative on the trinational Task Force on the Future of North America, whose recommendations led to the creation of the SPP.

The NACC members will meet with government representatives from all three countries to discuss their proposals in September 2006.


See also
North American Free Trade Agreement
Independent Task Force On North America
United North America
American currency union

External links
A North American Partnership
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
Alianza para la Seguridad y la Prosperidad en América del Norte
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Criticism
Phyllis Schlafly Article
North American Union to Replace USA?
The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
President Quietly Creating 'NAFTA Plus'
North American Union Already Starting to Replace USA
Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
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Folks, the CEOs of Multi-National Corporations are already running the NAU (North American Union) or UNA (United North America). That makes US..either NAUS or UNAS already in the grasp of Global Corporate Warlords.



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USA NOT UNA!

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Of everything We have done, can do or will do, stopping this is the most important thing we will ever do.