Harper’s oath of silence?

Needless to say hallowed words like Deep Integration, the Security and Prosperity Partnership and North American Union never cross his lips as this is what the eerie silence is all about. Unfortunately, our esteemed leader’s timing is off as he displays his usual poor political judgment on a very profound issue. This is the worst possible time to be sucking up to the Yanks and here are ten good reasons why: 1. The American economy is in deep trouble. The US dollar is falling and is likely to be replaced by the Euro as the international standard. Economists are describing the US economy as a donut- a big hole at its center. 2. The US has huge trade deficits with its trading partners. 3. The wars the US has been fighting are being financed by running up its national debt and its creditors, namely China, are getting nervous and starting to invest their money elsewhere. 4. The US is now spending 2.2 billion dollars a day in Iraq alone. No economy can afford this cash outflow over an extended period. Wars are inflationary and this is one reason the Vietnam War came to an end when it did. The US takes full credit for the implosion of the USSR by drawing it into excessive military spending. Now the US is falling into exactly the same trap- and Osama bin Laden is the one who set it. 5. The world economy is going through dynamic changes as countries like China, India, and many South American countries are coming to the fore. A group of South Asian countries are forming a trading block from which the US is specifically excluded and they are planning on their own currency. If Canada continues on its present course it is going to be an isolated economic backwater dependant on the benevolence of its Southern neighbour and segregated from a dynamic world economy. 6. In Iraq a coalition nationalist movement is emerging that is insisting the US leave Iraq and that Iraq is for the Iraqis. They are no longer going see their country occupied and ruthlessly exploited. This should be supported. 7. In Afghanistan there is a growing momentum for a negotiated peace. Canada should be supportive of this and quit moving in lockstep with Washington’s every whim. 8. The USA has ruthlessly exploited 9/11 to its own advantage to advance its global domination and coerce its allies, especially Canada and Mexico, into an even more subservient relationship. In the Security and Prosperity Partnership Canada and Mexico are the equivalent of minority shareholders and will be treated as such. 9. The American concern for its national security is largely fraudulent as 9/11 was clearly a failure of its own internal security and other countries should not be scapegoats for this failure. Its tyrannical foreign policy before the attack was a fundamental cause of the attack and its policies since the attack-especially the war on terror- have only made a bad situation worse. 10. Contrary to what the despicable Thomas d’Aquino and his merry band of turncoats at the Canadian Council of Chief Executives might believe the American empire is in descendance not ascendance. The New American Century is in foreclosure. Getting too close now is like buying a deck chair on the Titanic. It is surely time for an election but not on the any of the issues contained in the Speech from the Throne. Canadian sovereignty and North American Union should be the issue. This would require an act of resolute political courage on the part of the opposition parties acting in an informal coalition. They must aggressively make this the central issue and put the quisling Harperites in their place- a feeble rump party warming Opposition back benches.

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