Pressure To Export Water To U.S. Could Grow

Posted on Monday, January 02 at 14:40 by jensonj
"It doesn't make any sense to me." It was as close as any high-profile American has come recently to saying what many Canadians have long suspected - Washington wants our water. Officially, the U.S. government says it's not interested in Canadian water. But many believe the issue will soon break into the open. Maclean's magazine recently ran a cover story arguing that Canada should sell its water "before they take it." "This country is in a position to provide a solution that would yield enormous economic and humanitarian benefits for the entire continent, even the world," the magazine wrote. Such viewpoints don't sit well with Peter Lougheed, the former premier of Alberta. In a recent speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Lougheed called for an all-party declaration in the House of Commons confirming Canada's refusal to allow large-scale water transfers to its southern neighbour. "We should not export our fresh water - we need it and we should conserve it," Lougheed said. "And we should communicate to the United States very quickly how firm we are about it." http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060101/export_water_060101/20060101?hub=Canada [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on January 2, 2006]

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  1. by Justme
    Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:20 pm
    but, how many canadians are/were aware paul cellucci, former republican governor of massachusetts, had (has?) a very bad gambling problem? he developed a notorious reputation as governor but it was rarely publicized. he lost large sums on horses for example. the man who made him his lutinant governor, then governor, is bill weld, who's now planning on running for governor of new york. bill weld, a old school republican wealthy yankee lawyer from new york, was united states attorney general in boston during a notorious drug money laundering scandal involving billions being physically transferred out of bank of boston.he was responsible for federal prosecutions and he soft peddaled it. weld also left massachusetts for manhattan (leaving cellucci governor) to be closer to his long time lover and divorce his wife (she's a harvard professor of chinese law.) were canadians aware of this guys reputation and past?

  2. by Justme
    Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:22 pm
    sorry

  3. Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:07 am
    The US government will forge whatever reason to justify its takover of world resources (WMD for example!). What will it be for Canada? There will come a time when the name EARTH will be changed to planet America! And of course, this will be the prophetised Armaggedon when 'Evil' will rule for 2000 years.

  4. Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:43 am
    The Invasion of Canada<br />
    By: Michel Chossudovsky<br />
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    <a href="http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/75357">www.iraq-war.ru/article/75357</a><br />
    <br />

  5. Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:47 am
    Vote Green, NDP or CAP if you want to ensure the Americans keep their filthy little fingers off of our water. If they refuse to protect what water they have now, refuse to conserve what they have now, they don't deserve access to ours.

    Water will be more valuable than oil very shortly. We already sold our oil soul to the U.S. SUV demon, let's not sell our water soul so Americans in the Southern states can keep their pools full, and Texans to keep pushing it under the ground to get out their last drops of oil.

  6. by Justme
    Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:32 am
    "Through the first nine months of 2004, automotive manufacturers in Canada churned out 350,000 SUVs. This surpassed the total of 331,634 SUVs that they produced in the entire year of 2003.

    What it means is that the Canadian automotive industry is benefiting from one of the largest and fastest growing market segments in North America. The nation is also reaping economic benefits, as the motor vehicle industry accounted for nearly 13% of the total manufacturing sales in 2002. Ontario motor vehicle makers alone employed more than 42,000 workers in 2002, or 4.7% of the province&#8217;s employment in manufacturing.

    Despite recent record high prices for crude oil, which began climbing in late 2002, North American consumers have had a big appetite for SUVs which tend to be less economical on gas consumption than passenger cars. Sales reached all-time highs in both Canada and the United States in 2003."

    -- statcan.ca

    you want to have your cake and eat it too? you have alot more in common with your american liberal brethren than you'd like to admit.

    btw: texas is not the kind of place you portray it as. it has a very vibrant liberal democratic party, it has a MINORITY white(anglo) population and it's capital, austin, would make ottawa seen reactionary by comparison.

  7. by Justme
    Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:37 am
    His Canada firm hosted legislators

    By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | December 3, 2005

    "The Florida state Senate has asked former Massachusetts governor Paul Cellucci to testify in a probe of a Canadian gambling company that paid for four Republican legislators to travel to Canada in July while the company was seeking legislative approval for slot machines at a racetrack it owns.

    "Canadian-based Magna Entertainment Corp., where Cellucci is now executive vice president, took the four lawmakers in a private plane to Ontario in July and entertained them at Niagara Falls and one of the firm's casinos. The lawyer for the Senate president this week asked Cellucci and five other executives of Magna to testify in the Senate's inquiry into the trip."

    boston globe

    this the kind of man paul cellucci is.

  8. Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:11 am
    "this the kind of man paul cellucci is."

    We know, we know! You won't find many Celucci supporters here . . .

    But you may notice, the story is about 'Water'. Doesn't even rhyme with 'Celucci'.


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    "If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

  9. by Justme
    Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:30 am
    i'll shut up about cellucci, but it's not entirely off-topic. he's indicative of the type of man and woman who are real powers behind the scenes.

    as for exporting water,why wouldn't canada export some of it? canada is never going to have a large population and it's excess water is a great resource and commonidity, but it's worthless if it's just sitting there. and cellucci is right, it's renewable, so what's the big deal? again,considering the massive trade canada does with the united states it would not at all be in canadas best interests for the 300+ million united states citizens to be starving for water. if the american economy coughs, canada catches the cold. although i think there's alot of hyperbole going on here regarding the need for canadian water. this has more to do with business than politics.

  10. Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:49 am
    Water is NOT a renewable commodity.

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    Vera Gottlieb

  11. by Justme
    Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:49 am
    but apparantly IT IS renewable as long as it's properly recharged.

    btw: earth's largest aquifer, the ogalalla aquifer, is located under the u.s. midwest.

    i see no reason why the upper midwest aerospace consortium and rice university should lie.

  12. Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:59 am
    if the above subject is off topic, so is this. What does water exports have to do with Americans lust for SUVs. By the way, the auto pact only requires the US auto makers to build enough cars to serve the Canadian market, anything more than that is their choice!!! If you have a problem with them building more than that talk to them, not Canada. Your welcome in advance for the education.

  13. Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:12 am
    Straight Goods?

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    Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation

  14. Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:48 pm
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