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Council of Canadians
www.canadians.org
Feb. 14, 2005

http://www.canadians.org/news_updates.htm?id=272&step=2&COC_token=23

Confidential task force document
reveals true business agenda for
Canada

OTTAWA - A confidential document from the Task Force
on the Future of North America confirms the Council of
Canadians’ worst fears: Canada’s business elite are
planning to push the country toward deeper integration
with the United States, including abandoning protections
for culture and fresh water.


The task force is a joint project of the Council of Foreign
Relations (CFR) in the U.S., the Mexican Council of
Foreign Relations (MCFR), and the Canadian Council of
Chief Executives (CCCE). It is co-chaired by former
Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Tom d’Aquino,
Chief Executive of the CCCE. The document, reported in
today’s Toronto Star, is a summary of the task force’s first
meeting, which took place in Toronto in October 2004.


"The agenda is a virtual carbon copy of the CCCE’s North
American Security and Prosperity Initiative, which Tom d’
Aquino has been selling since 9/11. If you think this is just
an external task force with little influence, think again. One recommendation, an annual Summit of the three countries’
leaders, has already been implemented," says Maude
Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians.


Among the "contentious" issues discussed in the document
are:

* Eliminating current NAFTA exemptions for culture and
certain sectors of agriculture.

* "Crafting a North American 'resource pact' that would
allow for greater intra-regional trade and investment in
certain non-renewable natural resources, such as oil,
gas, and fresh water."

* Creating an integrated North American electrical grid
that combines freer trade and investment with "some
form of joint oversight and regulation."

The document also calls for:

* A "North American brand name" - one suggestion
is to portray North America as a sort of "club of
privileged members." The North American identity
is also to be reinforced through the education system.

* A "North American security perimeter," extending
from "Mexico's southern frontier to the Arctic Ocean,
incorporating air, land and sea boundaries."

* "Common exclusion lists for people from third
countries."

*A "North American passport."

* "Trilateralized customs and immigration"
procedures.

*A "one inspection, one test and one
certification procedure" for North America.

* "Increased consultation on monetary policy,
with the understanding that some form of North
American currency union could become feasible
in the future."

* "It’s clear that what this task force has in mind is
a North American common market with common
security policies, common immigration and refugee
systems, a harmonized border system so that we
will not be able to have  independent health and
safety standards and a common resource policy
that includes trade in Canada' s water at a
future time when we have been softened up to
accept it," says Barlow.

The task force has also met in New York and Monterrey,
and is expected to release its recommendations in April
2005.

The Council of Canadians has just wrapped up
cross-Canada hearings on Canada-U.S. relations. A
final report from the hearings will be available in March
2005.

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For more information, contact:
Laura Sewell, Media Officer: 613.233.4487 ext 234;
613.795.8685 (cell); lsewell at canadians.org

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