Part 2:
Let us start by looking at some of the other incredible
arrangements our government has made, all of which throw
away our sovereignty, independence, and our civil
liberties.
- 1. The Canada -U.S. Smart Border Declaration with
a 30 point action plan signed Dec 12,2001
- 2. The Public Safety Act, 2002 with despotic
powers to certain Cabinet Ministers
- 3. The Anti Terrorism Act currently under review
- 4.The North American Security and Prosperity
Initiative (NASPI)- a report released January 2003 of
the project of the Canadian Council of Chief
Executives (CCCE)
to develop a strategy for shaping Canada's future
within North America and beyond.
- 5. The Security and Prosperity Partnership
Agreement signed by Bush and Martin in March of 2005
- 6. 40 Point Smart Regulation Action Plan
- 7. The Report of Ministers to the Leaders -SPP-
North America June 2005
1. The Canada - U.S. Smart Border Declaration signed
Dec 12,2001. Note John Manley signed this when he was
deputy Prime Minister along with Tom Ridge, US Homeland
Security Director. Manley is now the head of the North
American Union Task Force promoting the end of the
nations of Canada, USA, and Mexico,
as we know them.
The Canada-U.S. Smart Border Declaration has
everything to do with total integration of Canada into
the USA dominated system and control, with total loss of
Canadian
sovereignty and independence. Our government through
one Cabinet Minister and his officials committed
Canadians to arrangements, which had not been discussed
in Parliament, nor presented to the Canadians at large.
It is treasonous to be making, in effect, fundamental
changes to our constitutional structure without taking
this to the citizens.
The arrangements are after the fact being rammed
through Parliament piecemeal without any Member of
Parliament making a fuss about the fact of the
pre-arranged agreement between Manley and Ridge, nor
demanding that Canadians should have a say in this. No
Member of Parliament was elected on any platform to
create or enter a North American Union, which this Smart
Border Declaration is doing. The tragedy for Canadians
is that we appear to have no MP's, nor party with
representatives elected to the House of Common who is
prepared to fight for Canadians, or even to inform us.
In effect, there is no opposition in government. The
opposition to this are those of us outside of
government. This should not have to be!
This declaration outlines a set of initiatives called
the 30-point Action Plan. The Canada Customs and Revenue
agency is working collaboratively with the United States
Customs Service, the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service and Citizenship and Immigration
Canada. The CCRA has the lead responsibility for eight
of the initiatives outlined in the 30 Point Action Plan.
Making those eight happen is the priority for CCRA.
The eight are:
- A Single Alternative Inspection System
- Air Pre-clearance
- Advance Passenger Information/Passenger Name
Record
- Ferry Terminal Reviews
- Harmonized Commercial Processing
- Clearance Away from the Border
- Customs Data Exchange
- In-Transit Container Targeting at Seaports
The 30 points are:
1) Biometric Identifiers - Jointly develop on an
urgent basis common biometric identifiers in
documentation such as (this means in other ways too)
permanent resident cards, NEXUS, and other travel
documents. (That means DNA markers, retinal captures and
fingerprints) (CBC
recently reported that this month our Government will
present to Parliament a bill that will permit "chips"
being placed in our passports. The chips will hold
untold amounts of personal data, even possibly to the
amount of money you have in your bank account. This chip
can be accessed and read by any one or place that has
the existing technology. It has been reported to me that
the Mohawk Indians have been approached by our
government to volunteer to being "chipped" and to have
DNA records of them created for tracking. Chips are
microscopic devices that can be implanted in your skin
as easily as on a card. This is no longer science
fiction folks, it is happening.)
2) Permanent Resident Cards- a secure card that
includes a biometric identifier. (It is the impending
legislation that will require all citizens to be
fingerprinted and eye printed, and to have all their
personal data encrypted on a national card- even human
chip implants to track your location and activity. Many
cell phones already do that. Some clothing
manufacturers, and I am told Wal-Mart is one, already
have microscopic tracking chips that remain in the
clothes after you leave the store with your purchase. If
someone wanted to, they could track you if you wear
Wal-Mart clothing. Who has sanctioned that?
3) Single Alternative Inspection System- Resume NEXUS
for two-way movement of pre-approved travellers at
Sarnia-Port Huron, and expand a single program to other
areas along the land border. Discuss expansion to air
travel.
4) Refugee/Asylum Processing-Review practices and
procedures to ensure that applicants are thoroughly
screened for security risks and take necessary steps to
share information on refugee and asylum claimants.
5) Managing of Refugee/Asylum Claims- Negotiate a
safe third-country agreement to enhance the managing of
refugee claims. (Officials of Canada and the United
States signed the Safe Third Country Agreement on
December 5, 2002. The agreement allows both countries to
manage the flow of refugee claimants. No longer does
Canada make its own
decisions based on our sovereign principles.) Did
you hear any fuss being made by anyone in Parliament
about this destruction of our sovereign capacity? Or by
the media?
6) Visa Policy Coordination- joint respective visa
waiver lists and share look-out lists at visa issuing
offices.
7) Air Pre-clearance- implement the Pre-clearance
Agreement signed in January 2001. Resume in transit
pre-clearance at Vancouver and expand to other airports
per Annex I of the Agreement.
The following url shows the
Bill C22 The Pre-clearance Act. I do not know if the
Act has come into force yet. It clearly allows for the
no fly lists and gives authority to pre-clearance
officers in special setoff areas at airports to do thing
with persons named.
8) Advance Passenger Information/Passenger Name
Record- Share this on flights between Canada and the
United States, including in-transit flights. Identify
risks posed by passengers on international flights
arriving in each other's territory. (These are the "no
fly" lists whereby any of us can be defined as a bad guy
and not allowed to fly. Senator Kennedy was put the no
fly list of the U.S.. It took a while to get his name
removed.)
See what Canada's privacy commissioner
says about the No Fly lists.
See what our
government says.
9) Joint Passenger Analysis Units-Establish joint
units at key international airports in Canada and the
United States.
10) Ferry Terminals- Review customs and immigration
presence and practices at international ferry terminals.
(End of sovereign Canadian only decisions)
11) Compatible Immigration Databases- automated
database, such as Canada's Support System for
Intelligence, for information exchange, and enhance
sharing of intelligence and trend analysis.
12) Immigration Officers Overseas- Increase number of
Canadian and US immigration officers at airports
overseas and enhance joint training of airline
personnel. (More do it the US way when maybe we would
not do it at all if we made our own decision)
13) International Cooperation- technical assistance
to source and transit countries.
14) Harmonized Commercial Processing-complementary
systems for commercial processing, including audit-based
programs and partnerships with industry. Explore the
merits of a common program.
15) Clearance Away from the Border- integrated trade
facilitation through away-from- the-border processing
for truck/rail cargo (and crews), including inland
pre-clearance/post-clearance, international zones and
pre-processing centers at the border, and maritime port
in transit pre-clearance.
16) Joint Facilities- under current legislation and
regulations create small, remote joint border
facilities. Examine the legal and operational issues
associated with the establishment of international zones
and joint facilities, including armed protection or the
arming of law enforcement officers in such zones and
facilities. (An armed border)
17) Customs Data - Sign the Agreement on Sharing Data
Related to Customs Fraud, exchange agreed upon customs
data pursuant to
NAFTA, and discuss what additional commercial and
trade data should be shared for national security
purposes. (By sharing financial data, they can drive
anyone into bankruptcy if they want to. Re-read Orwell's
1984) (Lockheed Martin, a military oriented company has
been given the contract to handle Canadian census data
which means under the USA Patriot Act, all the
information about every Canadian is in the hands of the
US Homeland Security. That body has Orwellian powers
with tentacles now into Canadian homes. At what point
will Canadian outrage emerge?)
18) In-transit Container Targeting at Seaports-
exchange information and analysis. Work in partnership
with the industry to develop advance electronic
commercial manifest data for marine containers arriving
from overseas.
19) Infrastructure Improvements- joint and
coordinated physical and technological improvements to
key border points and trade corridors - dedicated lanes
and border modeling exercises. (Easy movement of troops
into Canada)
20) Intelligent Transportation Systems-Deploy
interoperable technologies in support of other
initiatives to facilitate the secure movement of goods
and people, such as transponder applications and
electronic container seals. (Transponders are devices
that take a picture of you as you drive by and track you
- like on Ontario's highway 407)
21) Critical Infrastructure Protection- Conduct
bi-national threat assessments on trans-border
infrastructure and identify necessary additional
protection measures, and initiate assessments for
transportation networks and other critical
infrastructure.
22) Aviation Security-Finalize Federal Aviation
Administration-Transport Canada agreement on
comparability/equivalence of security and training
standards.
23) Integrated Border and Marine Enforcement
Teams-Expand IBET/IMET to other areas of the border and
enhance communication and coordination.
24) Joint Enforcement Coordination-comprehensive and
permanent coordination of law enforcement, anti-
terrorism efforts and information sharing, such as by
strengthening the Cross-Border Crime Forum and
reinvigorating Project Northstar. (Law enforcement is a
crucial part of sovereignty)
25) Integrated Intelligence - joint teams to analyze
and disseminate information and intelligence, and
produce threat and intelligence assessments. Initiate
discussions regarding a Canadian presence on the U.S.
Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force. (Canada gives up
any semblance of independent policies.) Is this the
source of the bill coming before Parliament this month
that will give increased powers to security forces to
spy on and take action against e-mail and websites and
cell phones and fax communications?
26) Fingerprints-RCMP to access FBI fingerprint data
directly via real-time electronic link (and vice versa).
27) Removal of Deportees- Address legal and
operational challenges to joint removals, and coordinate
initiatives to encourage uncooperative countries to
accept their nationals. (In other words, Canada will
adopt US rules on who is to be deported. That explains
the transition to violation of international human
rights by Canada in the harsh treatment in Canada of the
5 Muslims detained without trial and without defence in
provincial prison without release.)
28) Counter-Terrorism Legislation-Bring into force
legislation on terrorism, including measures for the
designation of terrorist organizations. (This is the
source of our Anti--terrorist legislation - our Bill C
36, and the USA Patriot Act. It was not Canadian
philosophy and policy and tradition that brought this
Orwellian legislation into being. It was the demand from
the US, and Canada's submission to and under this
agreement. Canada promised to deliver this. 9/11 was the
impetus, the excuse, to do what was intended any way. In
both the USA and Canada, the anti-terrorist legislation
is up for review now. The goal is to make the laws in
both countries even more invasive and liberty stripping,
more Orwellian.)
29) Freezing of Terrorist Assets-Exchange advance
information on designated individuals and organizations
in a timely manner.
30) Joint Training and Exercises- joint response to
terrorism- joint counter-terrorism training and
exercises
Read how the U.S. Homeland Security website
explains this agreement.
This Canada -US Smart Border Declaration militarizes
Canada and sets the stage for a police state. It is
responsible for our anti-terrorist law, which emulates
the US Patriot Act. The anti-terrorist laws discriminate
against racial groups, remove habeas corpus, (ie, the
right to be produced before a court rather than
arrested, locked up and the key thrown away), and remove
the right to a fair trial or in some cases to any trial
at all. They are trying to remove the right to defend
ourselves. They criminalize dissent. They revoke civil
liberties. These are Draconian laws sitting there
waiting to pounce on lawful citizens when the right
occasion presents itself. Canada's anti-terrorist law is
already being applied against Canadians of Middle
Eastern heritage- note the 5 Muslims incarcerated in
Toronto upon being accused of being terrorists. Our
judicial history prevented indefinite incarceration
without a trial. We had to be found guilty, not just
accused. That protection is gone now.
2. The Public Safety Act, 2002 (Bill C7) grew out of
Bills C 17, C55, and C42. This act amends 23 existing
acts and implements the
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Act.
The Public Safety Act imposes many terms that
restrict civil liberties. The section dealing with
interim orders grants despotic powers to a number of
Cabinet Ministers such that at their individual, sole
decree without prior Parliamentary oversight, approval
or sanction, they can impose the police state. Eight
parts of the Bill amend various statutes to provide a
new power permitting the responsible Minister to make
interim orders in situations where immediate action is
required (as he alone determines). For example, the
Minister of Health can require mandatory vaccinations
and quarantine.
Interim orders under The Public Safety Act are exempt
from the usual requirements of our law that are in place
to prevent abuse and excess. These orders are
specifically free from checks to avoid abuse or
violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights These orders
avoid examination by government lawyers whose usual job
is to ensure regulations and orders are not an unusual
or unexpected use of authority; and that they do not
trespass unduly on existing rights and freedoms.
The respective Ministers are:
- * Department of Health Act - Minister of Health;
- * Food and Drugs Act- Minister of Health;
- * Hazardous Products Act - Minister of Health;
- * Navigable Waters Protection Act - Minister of
Fisheries and Oceans;
- * Pest Control Products Act - Minister of Health;
- * Quarantine Act - Minister of Health;
- * Radiation Emitting Devices Act - Minister of
Health; and
- * Canada Shipping Act; Canada Shipping Act, 2001
- * Ministers of Transport and Fisheries and Oceans.
Now it is clearer to understand what the gun
registration was all about! Disarm the people from
protecting themselves from their own government, not
protection from criminals. This concept of possibly
needing to protect ourselves from our government is so
foreign to the Canadian psyche that most of us did not
see the malevolence of the gun registry program. We
became unwitting dupes to the police state agenda
because of our antipathy towards violence.
3. The Anti Terrorism Act - (Bill C 36) Currently
under review to
make it even more prohibitive.
4. The North American Security and Prosperity
Initiative (NASPI)- a project of the Canadian Council of
Chief Executives (CCCE)
launched in January 2003 to develop a strategy for
shaping Canada's future within
North America and Beyond.
That previous URL is a must read. It was posted or
updated November 2, 2005 as News and Information. It is
a discussion paper released April 2004. Here you can see
that the chief executives of the 150 leading
corporations of Canada are in the driver's seat setting
out the political agenda to meet its own interests.
Their own language has a flavour of their attitude that
they do rule.
Here is the preface to their discussion paper.
"The Council was the private sector leader in the
development and promotion of the Canada-United States
Free Trade Agreement during the 1980s and of the
subsequent trilateral
North American Free Trade Agreement. North American
economic integration is now well advanced and
irreversible, and in the face of global terrorism, the
economic and physical security of the continent have
become indivisible.
While the Council's fundamental vision for North
America remains trilateral, we believe that to be most
effective in addressing some of the key challenges
facing our continent today, Canada and the United States
must take the lead in developing a new paradigm for
cooperation, one that will increase the security of our
respective citizens and maximize the ability of our
countries to prosper in a world marked by increasingly
intense competition among developed and developing
countries. Given ever-growing international flows of
goods, services, people, investment and ideas, this new
paradigm must be based on respect for sovereignty while
achieving more effective and mutually beneficial
interdependence.
Following more than a year of research and
consultation with academics, business leaders and
government officials in Canada, the United States and
Mexico, we are ready to share some of our thinking. Many
important questions remain to be answered, but we hope
that the 15 specific recommendations we offer in this
discussion paper serve as a point of departure for
debate within Canada and the United States and as a spur
to action on the critical issues that we have
identified.
On behalf of the members of the Council, we are
grateful to our readers for your interest in the shared
challenges facing Canadians and our North American
partners. We look forward to your thoughts and to
working with you to ensure growing security and
prosperity for all North Americans."
Richard L. George
Chairman
Thomas P. d'Aquino
President and Chief Executive
Most important is the CCCE statement that both the
Martin Liberals and the Harper Conservatives support the
CCCE initiative for a North American structure that will
serve the corporate agenda. The CCCE paper states:
"While 2004 will bring elections in both Canada
and the United States, political interest in new
approaches to North America crosses partisan boundaries.
Prime Minister Paul Martin has made clear his intention
to reinvigorate Canada's relationship with the United
States as part of a broader strategy for strengthening
Canada's influence in the world. Stephen Harper, the new
leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, has called
for a continental "strategic partnership", one that
would link freer flows of goods, services, labour,
capital and technology with improvements in continental
security."
So for all those strategists who urged people to vote
Liberal to keep out the Conservatives, and for those
voters who complied, we now can realize the stupidity in
that approach. But most voters did not buy into that
lie. In 2004 Canadians produced a minority government
precisely because the voters knew intuitively that
something very rotten is transpiring.
The report sets out five pillars for a comprehensive
strategy:
"In launching its North American Security and
Prosperity Initiative (NASPI), the CCCE suggested that a
Canadian strategy for managing its future within the
continent should be based on five pillars: reinventing
borders; regulatory efficiency; resource security; the
North American defence alliance; and new institutions.
Over the past year, there has been an explosion of
research and discussion about options for North America.
The intensity of the discussion has been greatest in
Canada, but it has spread into both the United States
and Mexico, across academic, business and government
circles. There is clearly much more to be explored,
tested and eventually negotiated, but the immense amount
of work done over the past year has established a
meaningful foundation for more detailed discussion of
our options.
Based on all of the work by the CCCE and by many
others, this discussion paper builds on the original
framework of the CCCE's North American initiative,
suggests points of emerging consensus and puts forward
15 specific recommendations. From here, the CCCE hopes
to foster further dialogue on the best options for
Canada and on how best to move forward in building a
21st century Canada-United States partnership in North
America.
ELEMENTS OF A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY
Ever since September 11, 2001, there has been no
question that the management of the Canada-United States
border must evolve. The two countries quickly agreed on
the 30-point Smart Border action plan in late 2001, and
much has been and continues to be achieved under this
umbrella. Our two countries have been working closely,
sharing information, developing and deploying new tools
for managing risk, expanding border infrastructure and
experimenting with new ways to speed the flows of
low-risk goods and travellers while improving security
overall.
As the CCCE suggested in launching its North American
initiative, however, much more can and must be done. The
CCCE continues to believe that a comprehensive strategy
must encompass five pillars:
- * First, it must move beyond border management to
the true reinvention of North American borders.
- * Second, efforts to smooth customs processing
must be reinforced by a sweeping effort to reduce the
costs and delays at the border caused by regulatory
differences.
- * Third, and linked to regulatory issues, it must
address issues in the resource sector to ensure that
trade flows respect the twin principles of security of
access and security of supply.
- * Fourth, it must recognize that all of the
progress Canada desires on the economic front depends
on a credible reinvigoration of the North American
defence alliance.
- * Fifth, it must consider the development of a
range of new institutions to manage the deepening of
the Canada-United States relationship
Our government is implementing these suggestions of
the CCCE incrementally. Read the section on North
American Defence carefully if you had any doubts about
the points raised in Part 1 of my paper respecting
Canada's complete integration with the US military
agenda.
5. The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
America signed by Martin (Canada), Bush (USA) and Fox
(Mexico) in March 2005. This is the political arm
complying with its marching orders from the CCCE. Read
this URL to get the full flavour of the
power
unfolding.
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
Established March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas
Below are the highlights of the statement made by the
Leaders setting out the Security Agenda and Prosperity
Agenda, while announcing the establishment of the
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).
The statement was released March 23, 2005 at the
conclusion of Prime Minister Paul Martin's meeting with
United States President George W. Bush and Mexican
President Vicente Fox at Baylor University in Waco,
Texas.
SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH
AMERICA
We, the elected leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the
United States, gather in Texas to announce the
establishment of the Security and Prosperity Partnership
of North America.
Over the past decade, our three nations have taken
important steps to expand economic opportunity for our
people and to create the most vibrant and dynamic trade
relationship in the world. Since September 11, 2001, we
have also taken significant new steps to address the
threat of terrorism and to enhance the security of our
people.
But more needs to be done.
This work will be based on the principle that our
security and prosperity are mutually dependent and
complementary...Also, it will help consolidate our
action into a North American framework to confront
security and economic challenges...
... The Partnership is trilateral in concept;
while allowing any two countries to move forward on an
issue, it will create a path for the third to join
later.
Advancing our Common Security
We will establish a common approach to security to
protect North America from external threats, prevent and
respond to threats within North America, and further
streamline the secure and efficient movement of
legitimate, low-risk traffic across our shared borders.
As part of our efforts, we will:
- * Implement common border security and
bioprotection strategies;
- * Enhance critical infrastructure protection, and
implement a common approach to emergency response;
- * Implement improvements in aviation and maritime
security, combat transnational threats, and enhance
intelligence partnerships; and
- * Implement a border facilitation strategy to
build capacity and improve the legitimate flow of
people and cargo at our shared borders.
Advancing our Common Prosperity...
.... regulatory cooperation
....sectoral collaboration in energy, transportation,
financial services, technology, and other areas to
facilitate business; and invest in our people;
....efficient movement of goods and people; and.....
Next Steps
We will establish Ministerial-led working groups
that will consult with stakeholders in our respective
countries. These working groups will respond to the
priorities of our people ( I do not think the people are
the masses of citizens) and our businesses, and will set
specific, measurable, and achievable goals. They will
identify concrete steps that our governments can take to
meet these goals, and set implementation dates that will
permit a rolling harvest of accomplishments.
Within 90 days, Ministers will report back to us
with their initial report. Following this, the groups
will report on a semi-annual basis. Because the
Partnership will be an ongoing process of cooperation,
new items will be added to the work agenda by mutual
agreement as circumstances warrant.
Through this Partnership, we will ensure that
North America remains the most economically dynamic
region of the world and a secure home for our people in
this and future generations.
SECURITY AGENDA
... Canada, the United States, and Mexico will
work together to ensure the highest continent-wide
security standards and streamlined risk-based border
processes are achieved in the following priority areas:
Secure North America from External Threats
- * Develop and implement a North American
traveler security strategy, and a cargo security
strategy for screening prior to departure from a
foreign port and at the first port of entry to North
America.
- * Develop and implement a North American
bioprotection strategy to assess, prevent, protect,
detect, and respond to intentional, as well as
applicable naturally occurring threats to public
health and the food and agriculture system.
- Prevent and Respond to Threats within North
America
- * Develop and implement a strategy to enhance
North American maritime transportation and port
security.
- * Develop and implement a strategy to establish
equivalent approaches to aviation security for North
America.
- * Develop and implement a comprehensive North
American strategy for combating transnational threats
to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including
terrorism, organized crime, illegal drugs, migrant and
contraband smuggling and trafficking.
- * Enhance partnerships on intelligence related to
North American security.
- * Develop and implement a common approach to
critical infrastructure protection, and response to
cross-border terrorist incidents and, as applicable,
natural disasters.
Further Streamline the Secure Movement of Low-risk
Traffic across our Shared Borders
...... a border facilitation strategy to build capacity
and improve the legitimate flow of people and cargo at
ports of entry within North America.
.....new technologies to advance our shared security
goals and promote the legitimate flow of people and
goods across our borders.
PROSPERITY AGENDA
* Regulatory Cooperation .....compatibility of
regulations and standards and eliminating redundant
testing and certification requirements. Strengthen
regulatory cooperation, including at the onset of the
regulatory process, to minimize barriers.
.......greater cooperation in sectors such as
autos, steel, and other sectors identified through
consultations.
......increase reliable energy supplies for the
region's needs and development, by facilitating
investment in energy infrastructure, technology
improvements, production and reliable delivery of
energy; ..... to streamline and update regulations;
....promoting energy efficiency, conservation, and
technologies such as clean coal, carbon capture and
storage, hydrogen and renewable energy.
.... North America's transportation system by
expanding market access, facilitating multi-modal
corridors, reducing congestion, and alleviating
bottlenecks at the border that inhibit growth and
threaten our quality of life (e.g., expand air services
agreements, increase airspace capacity, initiate an
Aviation Safety Agreement process, pursue smart border
information technology initiatives, ensure compatibility
of regulations and standards in areas such as
statistics, motor carrier and rail safety, and working
with responsible jurisdictions, develop mechanisms for
enhanced road infrastructure planning, including an
inventory of border transportation infrastructure in
major corridors and public-private financing instruments
for border projects).
...... freer flow of capital and the efficient
provision of financial services throughout North America
(e.g., facilitate cross-border electronic access to
stock exchanges ... further collaboration on training
programs for bank, insurance and securities regulators
and supervisors.....improve convenience and cost of
insurance coverage for carriers engaged in cross border
commerce.
.... cross-border technology trade ... preventing
unnecessary barriers from being erected (e.g., agree on
mutual recognition of technical requirements for
telecommunications equipment, tests and certification;
adopt a framework of common principles for e-commerce).
....Lower the transaction costs of trade in goods
by liberalizing the requirements for obtaining duty-free
treatment under NAFTA, including through the reduction
of rules of origin costs on goods traded between our
countries.
....rationalizing minor differences in external
tariffs, consistent with multilateral negotiation
strategies.
..... facilitate further the movement of business
persons within North America and discuss ways to reduce
taxes and other charges residents face when returning
from other North American countries.
Enhance public health cross-border coordination in
infectious diseases surveillance, prevention and control
(e.g., pandemic influenza).
.....Harmonization of Technical Requirements for
Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human
Use....identification and adoption of best practices
relating to the registration of medicinal products.
6. The
40 point Smart Regulation Action Plan - announced
March 24, 2005 at a Newsmaker Breakfast at the National
Press Club. (Globe and Mail March 21).
This plan introduces huge changes to Canada's
regulatory system. This plan is the result of another
corporate "task force". The plan will make it easier and
faster for corporations to get approval for new drugs,
complete environmental assessments, and the like. On
March 21, the Globe and Mail stated that one of the
initiatives is: "A paperwork-burden-reduction task force
with the private sector to reduce the obligations for
business to comply with regulations at all levels of
government"
The Smart Regulation Plan will "harmonize" Canadian
regulations with U.S. regulations, i.e., make Canadian
regulations the same as U.S. regulations, which means
more deregulation and fewer protections for consumers.
Canada often has very different regulations from the U.S
in terms of things like safety and environment. For
example, Bush's U.S. refused to sign on to
Kyoto, and has instituted environmental regulations
that many U.S. citizens believe are a step backward for
the U.S., and
harmful to the environment.
It has been impossible to find an actual list of the
40 points referred to in various media reports. However,
there are many references to the smart regulations in
the various urls presented in this Part 2.
7. The Report of Ministers to the Leaders -SPP-
North
America June 2005, this is an important URL to read.
Three ministers from each of Canada USA and Mexico
signed it. For Canada they are: Anne McLellan, Deputy
Prime Minister, and Minister of Public Safety and
Emergency Preparedness; David Emerson, Minister of
Industry; and Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
They begin their report by saying that the leaders on
March 23, 2005 asked their Ministers to create an
overall architecture to enhance the security of North
America and this report is a response to that request.
Read this and you will be left with no doubt that
these Ministers and the Leaders are complying in spades
to the demands of the CCCE. They are in fact creating
regime changes in all three countries with the
corporation giving the orders. They are in fact
dismantling the constitutional structures of the three
countries.
The report of the CCCE referred to in number 4 of in
this part speaks of the need for involving the other
levels of government, provincial, state and municipal to
fully effect the plan. Reference is made to meetings
with these other levels of government. This fact has a
profoundly serious implication: the other levels of
government are complicit in the violation of the
constitutional rights and entitlements of the citizens
as the constitutional structures of the respective
countries are being dismantled.
Canada has a very clear division of powers between
the federal government and the provincial governments.
The division is of watertight compartments.. Not one of
the provinces is complaining about the restructuring of
this relationship, the emasculation of their sovereign
power, nor of un-elected, unaccountable chief executive
officers dictating what the provinces are to do.
The municipalities are creatures of the Provinces.
Not one municipality is making any objection to the
emasculation of their powers.
The constitution of Canada does not belong to the
legislatures or to Parliament. It belongs to the
citizens. So said our Supreme Court of Canada. These
parliamentarians and legislators have no right to do
what they are doing. But they are arrogant, and they do
not care. Our system has become rotten to the core.
Our federal government is in process of reviewing our
anti-terrorist legislation. It has not been easy to
ascertain just where they are at in the process. The
Canadian Action Party is taking steps to try to make
presentation to that process.
The Canadian federal government has indicated it is
bringing forward legislation imminently to allow
security forces to spy on citizen use of the Internet,
on e-mail, and on cell phones. It has been impossible
for the Canadian Action Party to obtain the draft
legislation.
The US government on October 13, 2005 published its
order made in August 2005, which greatly increased the
scope of legislation regarding the electronic monitoring
of telecommunications providers. The order extends the
legislation to cover broadband Internet access services,
including wireless and voice-over-IP (VOIP) Internet
Telephony services. Universities are required to comply.
See: http://www.lifeboatnews.com Mike Ingram 26 October
2005 "Order Broadens Surveillance of Internet Users"
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