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Posted on 06/16/2006 1:32:19 PM PDT by seastay
Trade officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico said Thursday the nations' economic ties have grown stronger despite strains over immigration and border security.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba and Canadian Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier said the governments of all three countries were working to reduce trade frictions.
As part of that process, the three officials presided over the launch Thursday of the North American Competitiveness Council, a partnership between the government and business executives from the three countries. The panel will meet on a regular basis to deal with problems that are limiting trade.
The effort is being conducted under the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" that President Bush and the leaders of the other two countries launched a year ago.
Gutierrez said increased border security — including construction of a fence to deal with illegal immigrants coming into the United States from Mexico — would not harm the economic ties between the two nations.
He also said that the governments would work to resolve problems that arise from a controversial new requirement that all people coming into the United States after 2007, whether from Canada or Mexico, present a passport or some other tamper-proof document.
Opponents of the proposal contend that it will cause massive traffic backups on the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico, harming tourism and the flow of commerce.
Gutierrez rejected a suggestion that the requirement should be delayed to deal with the potential problems.
"We want to continue to have the movement of goods ... and we want to do it in a way that we have security," he said. "We can do both."
What is so controversial about passports and visas ?
If any thing is controversial it is this North American super-state that is in the works with no democratic oversight and that this partnership underway with no authorization from Congress!!!
The executive branches of these countries have been working this plan two years with no public disclosure or debate by their constituents. Talk about controversial! Where is the outrage??
But no, all we hear about is that it is going to be a problem, and inconvenience, and even implied racist ( e.g. controversial) to check passports on the border, gee like isn't that the least of what is expected???
Also see
Yes, they wear loud ties...........
What could be more treasonous than the deliberate disolving of the United States of America into this corporate backed "American Union?"
I am a senior citizen who may not have more than ten years left, but I strongly fear that it will be long enough to see this great nation disappear.
Who was it that first started talking about the "New World Order?" Wasn't it Bush I, then Clinton and now Bush II?
I have seen America at its greatest. I now fear I will see its death.
What could be more treasonous than the deliberate disolving of the United States of America into this corporate backed "American Union?"
Nothing! I wish everyone one on this board felt the same way.
Bring on the Amero!
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Are you telling me that our former Liberal Prime Minister (Paul Martin),
who really disliked George Bush and was generally anti the current American
Administration, had secret talks to get in bed with Yanks and Amigos for 18
months prior to leaving office???????
Dunno, but that's a bit of a stretch if'n y'alls ask moi...
Thats what they are saying, I am just reporing it, For starters how about :
A North American Community Approach to Security
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8173/north_american_community_approach_to_security.html
"On March 23, 2005, President George Bush, President Vicente Fox, and Prime Minister Paul Martin met in Texas. This was not their first meeting, but the others had been little more than photo-opportunities. The three leaders announced a “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” based on the premise that both security and prosperity are “mutually dependent and complementary.” They declared that the partnership is “trilateral in concept,” but the framework was incremental and dual-bilateral in fact.
or how about : THOMAS P. D'AQUINOIS He was the Chairman of the CCCE's North American Security and Prosperity Initiative launched in 2003. He authored two documents below which describe the plans to get in bed with the Amigos one of which was prepared for Paul Martin specifically in 2003;
Memo to the prime minister: building our country, and shaping Canada's role in the world" by Richard L. George and Thomas P. d'Aquino
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/dec03/george.pdf
Building a North American Community
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html
The 3 Amigos smokin dope in Texas....
You expresssed it for a great number of us. This is more of the Bush NWO.
No one has seen yet what God will have to say and do with this trash that thinks it is so exalted that they can enslave the rest of us. Where are those who can "weep between the porch and the altar"?(Joe 2:17)
And just why would that be? Isn't the flow of commerce and tourism going through checkpoints now?
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