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The August 21, 2007 Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec with U.S. President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Mexican President Calderon was held behind closed doors. Nothing of substance has been reported by the press, even though several major media outlets attended the event. To understand what might have happened, we can turn to an August 13 policy conference that was held in Washington, DC. Titled "The Montebello Summit and the Future of North America," the conference presented three panels of global thinkers, including Dr. Robert A. Pastor, to prognosticate on the past, present and future...

MONTEBELLO, Quebec — President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico yesterday ridiculed the notion that their countries are conspiring to create a regional supergovernment similar to the European Union. "I'm amused by the difference between what actually takes place in the meetings and by what some are trying to say takes place," said Mr. Bush, responding to concerns raised by conservative and liberal groups and some U.S. lawmakers. "It's quite comical actually, to realize the difference between reality and what some people on TV are talking about." Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper joked that a superhighway rumored to...

Bush denies superstate rumours August 22, 2007 By Jon Ward - MONTEBELLO, Quebec — President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico yesterday ridiculed the notion that their countries are conspiring to create a regional supergovernment similar to the European Union. "I'm amused by the difference between what actually takes place in the meetings and by what some are trying to say takes place," said Mr. Bush, responding to concerns raised by conservative and liberal groups and some U.S. lawmakers. "It's quite comical actually, to realize the difference between reality and what some people on TV are talking about."...

MONTEBELLO, Quebec – President Bush today sidestepped a direct question about whether he'd be willing to categorically deny there is a plan to create the North American Union. Instead, he ridiculed those who believe that is taking place as conspiracy theorists. The exchange came at a news conference held by Bush, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who met at a resort in the rural woods outside of Ottawa, Quebec, to discuss their latest work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership. After the trio presented their prepared statement about the SPP, several reporters who had been...

Joint Statement by Prime Minister Harper, President Bush, and President Calderón We, the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States, have met in Montebello to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing North America and to establish priorities for our further collaboration. As neighbours, we share a commitment to ensure North America remains a safe, secure and economically dynamic region, and a competitive player in global markets. We also discussed opportunities to cooperate globally and within our own hemisphere. The values and principles we share, in particular democracy, the rule of law and respect for individual rights and freedoms, underpin...

ue Aug 21, 5:46 AM OTTAWA (CBC) - After a day of protests that Prime Minister Stephen Harper dismissed as "sad," many protesters planned to continue their demonstrations in the Quebec resort town of Montebello on the second and final day of the summit meeting of the three North American leaders on Tuesday. Harper will meet with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon for formal trilateral talks Tuesday after one-on-one sessions the previous day. Outside the heavily guarded resort on the banks of the Ottawa River, where the trio was meeting to discuss the Security and...

MONTEBELLO, Quebec — President Bush, tending to relations with two border nations, sought Monday to invigorate his partnership with like-minded leaders of Canada and Mexico. Bush arrived by mid-afternoon in the Canadian countryside, where he will promote North American integration with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Police in riot gear pushed back dozens of protesters marching just outside the gate of the resort compound, where a few hundred people gathered in demonstration. "I heard it's nothing," Harper said, dismissing the protests as Bush arrived at the posh Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello. Bush ducked a question...

Bush listens to neighbors' leaders By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 27 minutes ago MONTEBELLO, Quebec - President Bush's summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico is likely to produce little more than promises of cooperation — and some signs of disunity. Bush came to this resort town on the Ottawa River to strengthen his ties with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. They were poised to announce at least one wrinkle, an effort to clarify border security plans in emergencies. Yet for all the gestures of unity, there were differences that were...

MONTEBELLO, Quebec – Leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico have begun their discussions of the Security and Prosperity Partnership behind closed doors here at the five-star Fairmont Le Chateau resort in Montebello, Quebec. President Bush arrived at mid-afternoon yesterday, with the presidential helicopter landing on the club's golf course, as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was waiting to greet him. As the two met, Harper commented that Bush appeared to travel with his own security army of Secret Service. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon arrived later, and could be the first to depart as forecasters estimated Hurricane Dean is...

As the President boarded AF1 at Waco today I would assume he and the First Lady spent the weekend in Crawford Texas at their ranch. Today the President departed for Ottawa, Canada, to attend a two-day summit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

Crowds of protesters pushing and hurling items at police lines outside the site of the North American Leaders' Summit in Montebello have provoked a limited response of tear gas and pepper spray. After showing considerable restraint in the face of non-stop taunts and insults, pushing and prodding and having anything some protesters can find thrown at them, some officers have fired tear gas canisters and pepper spray into the most volatile of the protesters. Officers fired tear gas at a knot of protesters who had gathered to throw items. Other isolated protesters have been pepper sprayed, some after continually poking...

The leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico will meet Monday for a two-day summit to bolster trilateral trade and security, far from the hostile gaze of demonstrators. In Montebello, a fence three meters (10 feet) high and running 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) around the meeting place has been erected to keep the protestors out.

OTTAWA — President Bush's two-day summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, beginning today in nearby Montebello, is raising fears among some conservatives that the three governments are planning a European Union-style super-government. Concerns about such an agreement and where it could lead started on Web sites and among talk-radio hosts, picked up by CNN commentator Lou Dobbs and gained traction among some of the House Republicans who successfully derailed Mr. Bush's immigration-reform plan, which critics described as an amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens in the United States. "We want you to be aware of serious and...

WASHINGTON — Never fond of interrupting his Texas vacations, President Bush is doing it this year to bolster ties with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, two friendly neighbors and vital partners. Bush joins Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday in Montebello, Quebec, in hopes of expanding cooperation among their countries, which enjoy the largest trading partnership in the world. The two-day North American Leaders’ Summit appears to lack a signature issue, except perhaps a new U.S. push to halt Mexico’s bloody drug wars. Instead, the broad theme is economic prosperity, built around several...

OTTAWA -- The far right and far left will find common ground next week as representatives from both political spectrums protest the summit between Canadian, American and Mexican leaders in Montebello, Que. An ultra-conservative U.S. group calling itself the Coalition to Block the North American Union, made up of politicians and activists, as well as singer Pat Boone, will hold a news conference in Ottawa on Monday to oppose the two-day Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting of U.S. President George Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Felipe Calderon of Mexico. Members of the group also plan on going to...

Never fond of interrupting his Texas vacation, President Bush is doing it this year to bolster ties with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, two friendly neighbors and vital partners. Bush joins Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Montebello, Quebec, on Monday in hopes of expanding cooperation among their countries, which enjoy the largest trading partnership in the world. The two-day North American Leaders' Summit appears to lack a signature issue, except perhaps a new U.S. push to halt Mexico's bloody drug wars. Instead, the broad theme is economic prosperity, built around several topics: border...

Twenty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives – 21 Republicans and a Democrat – are urging President Bush to back off his North American integration efforts when he attends the third summit meeting on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America next week in Montebello, Quebec. They make it clear that continuing any such agenda at this point would be disregarding growing apprehension in Congress about the plans. "As you travel to Montebello, Canada later this month for a summit with your Canadian and Mexican counterparts, we want you to be aware of serious and growing concerns in...

Jerome R. Corsi, a staff reporter for WND whose book, "The Late Great USA," addresses the U.S. government's efforts to create a North American Union with Mexico and Canada, will be discussing the issue on the Laura Ingraham Show. Corsi, who co-authored with John O'Neill the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry," also has on his resume, "Atomic Iran," "Showdown with Nuclear Iran," and "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" with WND columnist Craig R. Smith. In his newest, which has already made...

While protesters will be barred from the grounds of the “three amigos” summit next week, the American and Mexican presidents and their host — Prime Minister Stephen Harper — can watch them on a video feed piped into the resort where they’re meeting.

EXCERPT: (CNSNews.com) - An upcoming meeting among President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon is raising concerns on both sides of the northern border and the political aisle over sovereignty, immigration, natural resources and corporate influence over government. The Aug. 20-21 meeting is the fourth in a series of meetings among the leaders of the three countries as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a "trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity ... through greater cooperation and information sharing." The first meeting took place in 2005 in Waco, Texas.