While I suspect that, to the average reader, none of this sounds terribly momentous, I am of a different view. Examining the NACC in its historical context discloses that it is, in its very structure and composition, an anti-democratic institution...
On the surface, the NACC appears to be an initiative of government. It is not. It was entirely conceived by the private sector. In 2003, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives launched its "North American Security and Prosperity Initiative," a sales pitch designed to convince government to pursue such business-friendly initiatives as "re-inventing" borders, regulatory convergence and energy integration. It is no coincidence that the NACC currently pursues these same objectives.
The NACC's members are drawn almost exclusively from the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Business Roundtable in the U.S. and the Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios, a Mexican business association.
These organizations represent some of the largest corporations in their respective nations; the NACC is a means for them to influence government policy in the interests of the companies they work for. No other group in society — labour, consumers, small business — has been invited to join.
[Editor's note: Thanks for the link, I've been looking for it since you first posted this story! DrC]
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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)
After googling Paul BIGIONI and reading some of what is there I may have to be not so all inclusive about my bias with regard to lawyers.<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=Paul+Bigioni&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8">http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=Paul+Bigioni&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8</a><br />
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Damn! I hate it when I must do that! Fair is fair though and I wouldn’t want to be such an individualist that I could not come around to changing my thinking once presented with evidence hither unbeknownst* to me. <br />
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I see the internet (while we have it) as a crucial tool allowing communications at our finger tips to present, exchange and discuss rationally ideas and news that is changing and will change perceptions a tool the Levellers didn’t have available to them and yet a tool that can be used for the same purposes as their pamphleteering and orations did for them. I further see the possibilities of a strong grass-roots bottom up structure of democracy to counter what Paul Bigioni writes about.<br />
It is my understanding the Canadian Action Party, although working with almost no budget and being all but totally shut out of the democratic process is striving for.<br />
It irks me when I see the stumbling blocks of implanted belief state the Canadian Action Party are unelectable. It is bad enough we must battle corporate personhood must we also be self-defeating? <br />
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*Yes, pretentiousness will on occasion rear its head in the words I choose to express mysself<br />
<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
Personally I thought it was a mistake, with this he puts himself in the "conspiracy" group which will end up undermining his message, imo. Don't get me wrong, the article is well researched, but sensationizing the circumstances may not be in the anti-globalist/anti-north amercican union, best interests. At a time when it is very important to try to get the message out about the SPP and organizations like NACC, legitmacy holds a lot of power.
By Paul Bigioni including factual data of those times can in no honest way be construed as being partnership with the now slanderous label of ‘conspiracy theorist’
To illustrate my point I will direct the reader’s attention to the fact there are several documentary makers dispelling wild accusations of so-called conspiracy “groups”.
No, in my observation Paul Bigioni has joined an ever growing awareness there are conspiracies as there were right from the high water mark of creation a so call “Federal” Reserve in the USA in 1913.
And notice please as momentum builds in calling the conspirators on their game the conspirator’s ramp up the “conspiracy theorist” rhetoric
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
George W. Bush quote
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States. — Spike Milligan
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Diogenes said:
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."