The reincarnation has not yet been given a name, but genetic traits show it to be a clone of this.
Yes, our old pal SPP.
It's Friday night and I'm knackered, so just a few words for now. Alison has a good write-upp on it as does Mentarch, and if I recall correctly, the archives of Good Doctors Pale and Prole, Mentarch, Dr. Dawg, and jj have a fair bit on the SPP.
I can't remember where I read it, but just before the SPP got quiet, someone in the know said they were going quiet for awhile and would come back under a different name because the original one has too many negative connotations.
In other words, the SPP never went away nor disbanded. It has been quietly working away and planning it's big unveiling. Well, partial unveiling, it seems since the agreement has to be sold to Canadians which is scum-bag politico-speak for bull-shit their way into our compliance.
And part of that sales pitch is to make us so afraid of terrorists and attacks from hostile countries that we will come to believe we need this "perimeter security" around all of North America.
But setting that perimeter around the US, Mexico, and Canada will make us bigger targets since we will be taking on US security issues.
Then there's the loss of privacy and civil rights.
And let's not forget the lowest common denominator in quality of goods and in product safety.
Oh, and wages taking a huge dive as barriers are softened allowing cheap, temp labour to cross borders.
And "shared" resources such as water...
More tomorrow. Or less for Canadians, I should say.
Well, it's Friday evening and those pricks won't be doing much tonight, so have a good weekend!
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There's a cache of documents over at Politics'n'Poetry. And I've got some at the regina mom, too. Oh, and the Canadian Dimension website should have a bundle! We did a fair bit of work on it when I was on the collective.
"just before the SPP got quiet, someone in the know said they were going quiet for awhile and would come back under a different name because the original one has too many negative connotations."
You're probably thinking of Christopher Sands of the Hudson Institute and the SPP's North American Competitiveness Council.
In 2007 he wrote a paper evaluating the successes and failures of the SPP : Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership.
It concludes :
"It is possible that cooperation among counterparts in the three governments could continue without the aegis of the SPP hanging overhead ... The taint of past surreptitiousness will still exact a price, however. It may ultimately be necessary to redesign and re-launch a new process to take up the work of the SPP under a new acronym."
It's a pretty frank paper.
"The most important feature of the SPP design is that it is neither intended to produce a treaty nor an executive agreement like the NAFTA that would require congressional ratification or the passage of implementing legislation. The SPP was designed to function fully within existing administrative authority of the executive branch in the US."
Tah for linkies, dahling.
that's the one, thanks, Alison. It's what hits me as well, how it doesn't need to go through legislation.
Thanks for the links, regina mom.
Harper already knows this is a sensitive issue. Hopefully, people can keep exposing it in ways people who aren't usually engaged will understand.
We I had planned to create a post regarding this issue and might still, but for now a comment should suffice. When I was eleven I read Orwells "1984" and I wondered if such regionalization would occur in our world. When I was 15 I began predicting the regionalization of the globe by continent. Through out my educational career I still hold that such regionalization is inevitable. Notice that no where did I say it was ideal, or preferable, or best. I do not feel qualified to make such an assessment, but as the population of the globe becomes larger and more unwieldly governments and/or private industry will keep getting bigger. The question many individuals will ask is what works best for the people. Well I can tell you that big government and big business, not matter what form of government you have will not work in the best interest of the people. Some styles of government and economy will be worse, but for the most part the people always lose. My question returns to one I ask all who seek individual freedom and liberty, how do you govern a mass of unruly people in the numbers that exist today? I expect not to hear stupid answers like, if the government acted in the best interest of its people it could be done, we just need to change the system.
I hate to tell you but if the system sucks then its because we made it suck. The argument I have heard most often that we should punish those committing the white collar crimes, but who would punish them? The other is that we need to better educate the people to think critically, not like drones, but who will take on that responsibility. Do you really think you could find a large group of selfless individuals that could take and maintain power in a selfless way? I do not mean to be so pessimistic, but the only future I see is one of global governance, or one of global population reduction through war, disease, faminin, or mass destruction. If someone sees a brighter future, please tell me what it is and how you think it will come about.
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