Oh Gee...Look At The Goodies

It's campaign time! Vive has a letter here buried on another page - should be on front page or included with the article above. CDM has posted a CAP response with another short piece in the comments.(editor how about combining the Vive efforts today with a link to the CDM letter? - help spur on others!)

Spend a couple of minutes writing the PM or your MP and voice your opinion. It worked for NMD and it will work for this.

I am having a very difficult time understanding how our governments are promoting this; we continually hear about how good this will be for industry, to protect natural resources and so on, but where is the impact on the people aspect? Who are we protecting the natural resouces and reserves from? I like the part about people moving in an orderly fashion! The helping Mexico's economy is really excellent as well, and I'm sure assisting the U.S. economy which is increasingly overburdened with war debt; all of this just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy...well mostly fuzzy!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

In their original document, the tri-lateral group also suggested that freedom of labour movement across the borders is pretty low on the list of priorities or reasonable outcomes. Way below capital/investment movement.

Seems kind of cynical they would boost the "border pass" concept given that it was so sidelined in the original planning. Looks like an attempt to sell the rest of the bundle to Canada and Mexico.

another non-partisan report on that story. Good job CBC.<br />
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/14/tri-national-report050314.html">http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/14/tri-national-report050314.html</a>

Along with the biometrics to go with our 2006 census data. they will know everything about us including your fingerprints, iris capture, where you live, how much you make, who you work for, where you come from, and all that so a few corporations can further increase their profits.

TRAITORS!

Guess who would be the Team captain. How about instead if Canada joins the EU. Lets hear from others about this.
Robert G. Mac Donald.M.D.
Canadian Patriot

A Puerto Rico-style "democracy"? All of the burdens and none of the benefits. What benefits? Being kicked around some more!

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Vera Gottlieb

E.U.? Maybe. Still like the Canuck dollar.

If anyone wants to e-mail the Council on Foreign Relations and chew them out--here's the url:<br />
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<a href="http://www.cfr.org/about/contactus.php">www.cfr.org/about/contactus.php</a><p>---<br>The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.<br />
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- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat

Some of the content of their proposal is actually not so unreasonable, if you accept the irrevesiblity of trends in global trade and the fact that export markets are important to Canada (no matter how much we increase intraprovincial trade).

The hard part to take is the parts that are most fair for Canadians (and even more so for Mexicans), like open labour movement, truly open and fair borders for trade and respect for sovereignty in social policy, are the least likely to make it through round one (if indeed any of this does). This is because it would require the U.S. congress to assent to binding, multilateral dispute resolution--and they won't do this.

Like the U.S. will play nice if they sign NAFTA+. Ha!

Not enough Canadians care about this to mount an effective resistance. Maybe after all this is what most of them want, and those few of us who think otherwise are really the rump and the minority. In any event, we are a long, long way from the critical mass of public sentiment we saw in Ukraine and in Lebanon on both sides of their political divide. We would need something of at least that magnitude to make even a minimal impact, and that's certainly nowhere in sight. A few of us can and will keep trying of course, but I think its really only a matter of a relatively short time before we are effectively colonized if not totally assimilated.

This will not benfefit Mexicans or Canadians! This is only another tool to make the rich richer! Harmonize our laws? Why? Do we really want the Patriot Act, or the death penalty up here? This is just another heat in the race to the bottom!

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Dave Ruston

Before we're assimilated into the USA we need to join Quebec in being separatists.

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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias