Neo-conservatives reportedly led by Brian Lee Crowley seek an American military presence in Canada's Atlantic Provinces, as a key feature of his well-financed group's support of a U.S. annexation.
Mr. Crowley and AIMS have been the chief architect of the Atlantica concept. AIMS is a well funded big business think tank, with Atlantica Canada's wealthiest families represented on it's Board of Directors, that is based out of Halifax.
In a speech to an APCC meeting in Montague, PEI on May 29, 2004, Crowley laid out his vision of "Atlantica" which contained three central ideas. The first of which is to turn the Atlantic Provinces and New England into a "transport intensive economy". To accomplish this would mean doing two things. Firstly, building a highway from St. Stephen, New Brunswick through New England to Cornwall, Ontario, and Montreal. Secondly, upgrading the Halifax port to accommodate Post-Panamax sized cargo ships. Crowley doesn't take into account the fact that the world is running out of Oil. Also with the trade routes he wants to create a by-pass of Newfoundland and the Francophone regions of New Brunswick.
Former Prime Minsiter John Turner campaigned passionately against "Free Trade" in the 1988 Federal Election against Mr. Mulroney's "Free Trade" Agreement. Mr. Turner accurately predicated in 1988 that so-called "Free Trade" would lead to behind-closed-door plots like "Atlantica", toward the annexation of Canada by United States elite corporate interests. John Turner who was a protégé of former Prime Minister Trudeau.
The second and most alarming central idea to "Atlantica" is Continental Integration. This follows from a report called "Building a North American Community" written by the "Task Force for the Future of North America" which is an ad hoc coalition of the Canadian Council of Chief Executes, the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and their Mexican counterparts the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internationals. The document makes 41 sweeping recommendations that read like a Christmas list for the Neo-Conservative "hawks" that are now in power south of the border. The recommendations centre around, first, creating an integrated North American Military and Law Enforcement Security apparatus that would transcend national boundaries and building a common North American security perimeter. Secondly, they call for an expansion of the NAFTA agreement to include Non-Tariff barriers to Trade (i.e. Public Services and cultural protections) and the "de-Confederation" of Canada, via harmonisation of Government regulations between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
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U.S. Interests With Their Collaborators Seek To Take Over Canada's Atlantic Prov
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RickW
"The Atlantica concept needs to be exposed for what it really is, an attack on Canadian sovereignty, Canada's national identity as a socially progressive society, including vital social programmes and rights for working people and the environment, and a U.S. capitalistocratic big business free-for-all that is aimed at the annexation of Atlantic Canada by the United States."
Yes, let's join a country on the brink of economic collapse not to mention its doomed, let's take of the world mentality. Our business elites and politicians certainly have a narrow view of the world and life in general. These men are so desperate to curry favour with their Yankee counter parts that they just look foolish to me.
Hopefully Canadians will tell them to stick it up their collective asses.
Mike
Winnipeg
Correction: above comment should read "take over the world mentality".
Mike
My very first personal encounter with a bad American representative, and I have had many encounters with many good American representatives too, was with a US-Calgary proponent of the originally free trade agreement and I was really there shocked as to how indifferent he was about Canada's good welfare, and concerns. There are good and bad Americans and good and mad respective actions too.
I still also do not agree to taking any abuse from anyone, even an American or a Canadian quietly too.
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There's no doubt its a big business venture. They want massive spending of transportation infrastructure like railways (now that they've decided they want them after all-sorry you sold it all and dismantled it), ports, and highways (now that its safely paid for by the public again).
THey also 'hint' at wanting to get rid of the minimum wage as well as increase union regulations to make life more difficult for unions. They don't 'exactly' say that, but you get the point.
They want similar taxation levels, but certainly don't want political union. For those familiar with my posts you'll know I am quite active in bringing 'political union' to Canada-namely citizens initiatives and referenda. Vermont is the only state that has successfully integrated Wal Mart into its economy, and its local referenda on a variety of issues makes it something to be emulated. I've written here elsewhere how New Brunswick could have benefitted from Maine's use of statewide referenda, particularly in the Liquified Natural Gas issue.
I'd LOVE to see that come to Canada. Call me a traitor if you like, there are certainly plenty of them in that case. However, AIMS and Crowley certainly don't want to see that in the maritimes. It's true the maritimes are pretty kowtowed by now, so inundated with Irving propaganda and business press and fear that they'd 'probably' vote with big business on everything. But that's by no means certain.
In fact, I'm thinking of joining the Atlantica team simply to get attention on Maine and Vermont's use of citizens initiatives, and Vermonts extremely successful Department of Natural Resources in order to replicate them in Canada. 'Sovereignty' is ideologically fine, but if somebody does something better, I'd say take your sovereignty and shove it where the sovereign don't shine.
Look how we fell for the so-called "free trade deal" thinking that all it meant was an abandonment of tariffs. Did we know what we were accepting?
This idea fits perfectly with the deep integration that is being pushed by the corporations on both sides of the border. If you look at the softwood lumber deal who is the big winner -- not the U.S. consumers but the big lumber companies. Did the voters of Vermont get a say in deciding whether they wanted to pay a higher price for softwood lumber?
Does it make sense to criticize our current system and then seek something that could be so much worse? As the two earlier commentators on this forum said even the Prime Minister would approve of such deep integration as the first stage in the total union that he is working towards as he restructures our system to fit seamlessly with the that of the U.S.
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