Maude Barlow Asks Where The Transparency Is In The SPP

Launched in March of 2005, the SPP is the culmination of an intense campaign by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Canada's influential big business lobby group, to maintain smooth trade relations with the United States in the aftermath of 9/11. The role of the big business community was formalized in March of 2006 through the creation of the North American Competitiveness Council — an advisory body comprised of 30 of North America's richest corporations. In a post-9/11 world where, for the Bush administration, security trumps trade, the Canadian and Mexican governments have agreed to fully integrate their security apparatuses with the U.S. and participate in its "war on terror" in return for vague assurances of continued market access for their largest corporations... Full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070816.wwcomment/BNStory/Front/home

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