PREMEDITATED MERGER
Bush opens SPP summit
Bush with Mexican, Canadian leaders in New Orleans for 4th annual meeting
Posted: April 21, 2008
10:22 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
 President Bush joins the leaders of Mexico and Canada in New Orleans (WND photo) |
NEW ORLEANS – As the fourth annual summit of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America begins in New Orleans, the White House is engaged in a public relations campaign to reposition the meeting away from the controversial issue of continental integration.
The "North American Leaders Summit,:" as it is called, appears designed to create photo opportunities showing President Bush with Mexico's President Felipe Caldron and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper rather than emphasize the trilateral cooperation that was the centerpiece of previous SPP summit meetings.
As WND reported, the SPP has engendered an increasing number of critics who see the intercontinental group as a North American Free Trade Agreement-plus arrangement that could easily lead to the creation of a North American Union by pursuing the same path of regulatory and bureaucratic integration used in Europe to create the European Union.
A press release on the White House website notes Bush, Caldron and Harper are meeting in New Orleans to "review progress and continued cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership," yet no update for the New Orleans meeting has been put on the SPP homepage, maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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