North America conab "undermines" DEMOCRACY

by **darkbeforedawn** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:17 pm

North America confab 'undermines' democracy Attendee of high-level meeting says officials wanted to hide it from public By Jerome R. Corsi A closed-door meeting of high-level government and business leaders that discussed the merger of North America was designed to subvert the democratic process, charged an attendee of the confab in Banff, Canada. Mel Hurtig, a noted Canadian author and publisher who was the elected leader of the National Party of Canada, provided WND the agenda and attendee list of the North American Forum at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Sept. 12-14. Hurtig said the "secret meeting was designed to undermine the democratic process." "What is sinister about this meeting is that it involved high level government officials and some of the top and most powerful business leaders of the three countries and the North American Forum in organizing the meeting intentionally did not inform the press in any of the three countries," he said. "It was clear that the intention was to keep this important meeting about integrating the three countries out of the public eye." As WND reported yesterday, the meeting was closed to the press, and the documents obtained by WND were marked "Internal Document, Not for Public Release." The motive for U.S. participation, according to Hurtig, was "to gain access and control Canada's extensive natural resources, including oil and water." As for Canada, he said, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives "wants to make sure that the 150 Canadian top companies who are their members who gain access to the American market and to American capital." The office of Thomas d'Aquino, president and CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, confirmed d'Aquino attend the Banff meeting. The North American Forum consists of the three individuals who co-chaired the Banff meeting: George Schultz, former secretary of state under President Reagan; Canadian Peter Lougheed, the former Alberta premier and former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta; and Mexico's Pedro Aspe, the former secretary of the Treasury of Mexico. The North American Forum has no business office and no business address. Attendees at the Banff meeting contributed funds to cover the organizational expenses. Attendees, including government officials, were responsible for their own travel, lodging and per diem expenses. A spokesman for the Canadian Council of Chief Executives said the Council of Canadians, which he characterized as a "far left group," was the first to obtain and begin circulating the meeting's agenda and attendee list. Meera Karunananthan, spokeswoman for the Council of Canadians confirmed to WND the group was responsible for obtaining and releasing the meeting agenda and attendee list. She took exception with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, preferring to characterize her organization as "a citizens' advocacy group." Karunananthan said the Council of Canadians released the North American Forum information because it questions the "privacy of a meeting that involves senior ministers of our government meeting with senior government officials in the United States and Mexico." "The Canadian public has not been adequately informed about the on-going North American integration process, and we believe it is wrong for a meeting that involves top North American business executives and government officials to be held in secret behind closed doors," she said. Jean-Yzes LeFort, also a spokesman for the Council of Canadians, told WND the group opposes the effort to create a North American Union because "the NAU represents an elite corporate agenda and to us what is being planned would be an unacceptable loss of sovereignty." Attending the Banff meeting was Robert Pastor, the director of the Center for North American Studies at American University. Pastor is widely known for his extensive writings arguing for the creation of a North American Union, a new super-regional North American government based on the model of the European Union, with the intent of subrogating the sovereignty of the United States. Pastor was co-chair of the Council of Foreign Relations task force that in May 2005 released a report entitled "Building a North American Community." About one-third of the listed members of CFR task force attended the Banff conference. One prominent participant in both was Carla A. Hills, who served as U.S. trade representative from 1989 to 1993 and was the primary U.S. negotiator for NAFTA. On the second day of the conference, a session entitled "A Vision for North America: Issues & Options" was moderated by Thomas A. Shannon, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs. Perrin Beatty, president and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Canada's largest trade and industry association, also confirmed to WND he attended the Banff North American Forum meeting. Beatty described the meeting as "an opportunity for a small group of people from our three North American countries to get together informally and discuss issues of common interest." When asked why the meeting was closed to the press, Beatty responded the meeting was not a "decision forum" but a "discussion forum." Beatty claimed Pastor's views were not universally shared by all attendees. "My interest in attending the meeting was economic," he told WND. "How do we insure we keep pace with the explosion in competition in the North American industry? It's absolutely critical to the economic growth of our three countries that we stay competitive and successful." Among the U.S. government participants listed was Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, though WND was told he did not attend. Also listed were U.S. Department of Defense Lt. General Gene Renuart, USAF Senior Military Assistant to Secretary Rumsfeld, and Major Gen. Mark A. Volcheff, director of Plans, Policy, and Strategy for NORAD-NORTHCAM. In what is apparently intended to be an annual event, the first North American Forum meeting was held last September in Sonoma, Calif., and a meeting for next September is to be held in Mexico.

by **DBtv** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:57 pm

This is the reason for the new huge transport corridors under development. The American taxpayers will pay gigantic dollars to construct a restricted premium transport system through which the golbalist corporate elites will be able to efficiently move sweat shop produced goods to the few of the elite that will have money. The neo-con future sucks for almost all people on earth. The People must wrest the power from the luciferian elites, and, I believe, will. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be, however.

by **Rigorous Intuition** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:14 pm

Top secret: Banff security meeting attracted U.S., Mexico officials  A North American security meeting was secretly held in Banff last week, attracting high-profile officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada. The North American Forum was hosted with the help of the Canada West Foundation and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Among the attendees at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel affair was Stockwell Day, Canada's minister of public safety. The gathering may not have made headlines, but it is still the talk of Banff. Taxi Driver Chris Foote said he first learned of the meeting when he stopped into a submarine shop for a late night snack last week and heard rumours U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was in town. "Here they are talking in my backyard, no media to tell Canadians, Mexicans and Americans about what's going on. [I am] completely outraged," he said. "This is an assault on democracy." John Larson, a spokesperson for the North American Forum, said reporters were not told about the conference. He won't confirm who attended the meeting nor will he give any concrete details about what was discussed. "The participants joined the conference essentially knowing that it would be a private function," said Larson. Mel Hurtig, author and founder of the Council of Canadians, obtained internal documents about the Sept. 12-14 forum revealing that the gathering was called Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment. Rumsfeld was slated to be a keynote speaker and topics on the agenda included North American energy strategy and security co-operation. "We're talking about such an important thing, we're talking about the integration of Canada into the United States. For them to hold this meeting in secret and to make every effort to avoid anybody learning about it, right away you've got to be hugely concerned," Hurtig said. Hurtig says questions should be raised in the House of Commons about why Canadians are being kept in the dark on meetings attended by officials like Day. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2006/09/21/secret-meeting.html">www.cbc.ca</a>

by **postrchild** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:54 pm

So anyone got any ideas how to stop this? I see it manifesting itself in my backyard as we speak.....they are building the supercorridor along a stretch of road that I drive (AND PAY FOR) every day......I am pissed off about this like you wouldnt believe! Not that I woudlnt love to call Jeff my countryman, but I like being an American, bordered by Canadians and Mexicans........WTF is going on here....? Isnt anyone outraged at this? I would have taken to the streetsa a long long time ago, if I thought it would do any good....now I would just get lost amongst the panhandlers with signs.... Is it all lost, like it seems?

by **Rigorous Intuition** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:12 pm

Is it all lost, like it seems? I think to believe it is may be to give in to the lie of the "inevitability" of globalization. But I think, in Canada at least, there's a sad sense of fait accompli because we already fought the battle and lost during the Free Trade election of 1988. However, there is absolutely zero visibility here in the mainstream press for the secret, CEO-led talks on "security" integration.

by **dugoboy** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:25 pm

they want us to believe ignorance is bliss <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"> ___________________________________________ "BushCo aren't incompetent...they are Complicit!" -Me "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell "When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -Mahatma Gandhi

North America conab "undermines" DEMOCRACY

North America conab "undermines" DEMOCRACY

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