Deep Integration

And yet in the case of the SPP, we have no master agreement. No one document exists, but rather a mesh of partially-informative and often spin-doctored government web sites. Of greater concern is the rolling nature of this partnership. Ongoing task forces of indeterminate membership, meeting beneath the public radar, and deciding upon changes which are quickly implemented under existing regs. That means no SPP motion or bill has ever come before the House of Commons. No extended debate has even taken place, while MPs spend hours on issues of much less impact on the entire country. There is no standing House of Commons committee on SPP and no extensive, publicized and well-promoted hearings. No questions are heard in QP on SPP, and no ministerial announcements are made when key meetings take place. No summary was ever given by PMSH on his pivotal Cancun SPP conference last spring. No accounting. No words. Nothing. Full text at http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/06/03/deep-integration/ [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on June 4, 2007]

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