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{| class="wikitable" align="right"|-! Security and Prosperity Partnership
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The
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is a continent-level dialogue, founded on
March 23 2005 by the governments of
Canada, Mexico, and the
United States. The reason given for this agreement is to enhance security and economic cooperation in
North America.
The agreement's stated purpose is to establish a cooperative approach across the continent to advance common security and prosperity.
The initial SPP Working Groups are the Manufacture Goods and Sectoral and Regional Competitiveness Working Group, E-Commerce & ICT Working Group, Energy Working Group, Transportation Working Group, Food & Agriculture Working Group, Environment Working Group, Financial Services Working Group, Business Facilitation Working Group, Movement of Goods Working Group, Health, and Immigration. (Immigration is not currently listed as a working group on the SPP website.) SPP: Prosperity Working Groups
These working groups are tasked with implementing the SPP as initiated by the North American Heads of State on March 23
2005. will consult with stakeholders; set specific, measurable, and achievable goals and implementation dates; and of Government on
June 23 with semi-annual progress reports thereafter. A 24-month agenda is established to serve as a timeline milestone to have the initial framework fully developed.
Stated goals of the SPP
The stated goals of the SPP are cooperation and information sharing, improving productivity, reducing the costs of trade, enhancing the joint stewardship of the environment, facilitating agricultural trade while creating a safer and more reliable food supply, and protecting people from disease.
The SPP is based on the belief that prosperity is dependent on security, and claims that the three nations are bound by a shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions. It is intended to assist, rather than replace, existing bilateral and trilateral institutions like
NAFTA and claims to work towards the three North American countries working cooperatively in the face of common risks and economic competition from low cost comulti-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.
NASCO has received US$2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Superhighway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the
Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. There is huge opposition to this sort of highway development from many members of communities it would potentially displace as well as from many native groups and environmentalists that often oppose high way developments for the damage caused to the environment and the resources used.
The U.S. government is not planning a NAFTA Super Highway. The U.S. government does not have the authority to designate any highway as a NAFTA Super Highway, nor has it sought such authority, nor is it planning to seek such authority. There are private and state level interests planning highway projects which they themselves describe as "NAFTA Corridors," but they have not been revealed to be part of the SPP as of 2007.
North American Facilitation of Transportation, Trade, Reduced Congestion & Security (NAFTRACS) is a three phase pilot project designed to focus on business processes and information as freight is transported from buyers to sellers. The project is intended to create a partnership between businesses and local, state, and federal governments, while claiming to foster cooperation among the same entities.
North American Competitiveness Council
The
North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) is an official tri-national working group of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It was created at the second summit of the SPP in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, in March 2006. Composed of 30 corporate representatives from some of North America's largest companies, the North American Competitiveness Council has been mandated to set priorities for the SPP and to act as a stable driver of the integration process through changes in government in all three countries.
Trilateral Summit Meetings
To date, the following summits have occurred:
A video of the Waco SPP Trilateral Summit News Conference is available online. Trilateral Summit News Conference
Meeting between U.S. President Bush, Mexican President Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Harper. A U.S. White House press release regarding the Cancun SPP Trilateral Summit is available online.
President Bush Meets with President Fox in Cancun, Mexico
The meeting went almost unpublicized by local and national media outlet, and its narrow timeframe of announcement meant it was ignored by a vast majority of the public. It did, however, attract protesters who were concerned about excessive secrecy surrounding the event. Redacted meeting minutes of the meeting have been obtained and posted online.
February 23 2007 Meeting minutes]
The leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico had a major trilateral summit meeting, in relation to the SPP, at the Château Montebello, in Montebello, Quebec. This conference was described as a public relations event with the purpose of promoting the SPP among investors and to reassure the public about the consequences of the plan.
Showdown Montebello! People versus the SPP A protest occurring during the event led to controversy, when labour leaders accused police of disguising themselves as demonstrators in order to incite violence.
Evidence of Deployment of Provocateurs Mounts The Quebec Provincial Police have admitted to the claims of police disguising themselves as demonstrators but denied any attempts to incite violence.
Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest
Criticism
Critics argue that the SPP is a "blueprint for building a European Union-style merger of the three countries of North America", creating a "North American Union".
North American union plan headed to Congress in fall. WorldNetDaily.
May 24 2007 Some see the SPP as part of a larger plan for
world government, wherein currently existing sovereign states are first joined into regions.
ZeitgeistIn
September 2006, United States Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., a Republican from Virginia, introduced resolution H.C.R. 487 which stated, in part, that the United States "should not engage in the construction of a
NAFTA Superhighway or enter into a North American Union (NAU) with Mexico and Canada".
North American Union threat gets attention of congressmen. WorldNetDaily.
October 1 2006.
CNN anchor
Lou Dobbs has called such a North American Union "absolute ignorance... an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value".
Lou Dobbs on the North American UnionOn May 10 2007, Conservative MP
Leon Benoit, chair of the
Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade, prevented University of Alberta professor Gordon Laxer from testifying that SPP would leave Canadians "to freeze in the dark" because "Canada itself – unlike most industrialized nations – has no national plan or reserves to protect its own supplies" by saying Laxer's testimony was not relevant, defying a majority vote to overrule his motion, shutting down the Committee meeting, and leaving with the other three out of four Conservative members; the meeting later continued presided by the Liberal vice-chair. After these disruptions, the
National Post reported on a Conservative party manual to, among other things, usurp Parliamentary committees and cause chaos in unfavorable committees. The
New Democratic Party has also criticized SPP for being undemocratic, not open to Parliament, and opaque ;
New Democratic Party leader
Jack Layton described the process as not simply unconstitutional, but "non-constitutional," held completely outside the usual mechanisms of oversight.
Rumors
According to a statement made by the president of Americans for Legal Immigration, the security hologram featured on the new
North Carolina drivers license About the North Carolina Driver License Hologram is the SPP logo.
North American Union driver's license createdOn
August 31 2007, conspiracy theorist and Internet broadcaster
Hal Turner claimed to have arranged for a United States Government minted
Amero coin to be smuggled out of the Treasury Department by an employee of that organization.
Snopes has assessed Turner's story as "false".
See also
Related infrastructure projects:
References
External links
- Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America: SPP Home
- Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, Canada
- Alianza para la Seguridad y la Prosperidad en América del Norte
- Goode: no union on continent
- US Government Agency SPP Documents
- Global Research
- Update on Hearings at Trade Committee re SPP from NDP MP Peter Julian
Critical
- Action against the SPP
- A Peek Behind Closed Doors
- North American Union
- Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership
- Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership Canada
- Building a North American Community, the Selling of America
- Article from the PRD website, in Spanish
- Articles from various blogs, News sources on SPP, NAU
- information on the destructive nature of the NAU/SPP
- Integrate This! Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership
{| class="wikitable" align="right"|-! Security and Prosperity Partnership
of North America|-| |-| Location map:
|-|Member countries:
|}
The
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is a continent-level dialogue, founded on
March 23 2005 by the governments of Canada,
Mexico, and the
United States. The reason given for this agreement is to enhance security and economic cooperation in
North America.
The agreement's stated purpose is to establish a cooperative approach across the continent to advance common security and prosperity.
The initial SPP Working Groups are the Manufacture Goods and Sectoral and Regional Competitiveness Working Group, E-Commerce & ICT Working Group, Energy Working Group, Transportation Working Group, Food & Agriculture Working Group, Environment Working Group, Financial Services Working Group, Business Facilitation Working Group, Movement of Goods Working Group, Health, and Immigration. (Immigration is not currently listed as a working group on the SPP website.) SPP: Prosperity Working Groups
These working groups are tasked with implementing the SPP as initiated by the North American Heads of State on March 23 2005. will consult with stakeholders; set specific, measurable, and achievable goals and implementation dates; and of Government on
June 23 with semi-annual progress reports thereafter. A 24-month agenda is established to serve as a timeline milestone to have the initial framework fully developed.
Stated goals of the SPP
The stated goals of the SPP are cooperation and information sharing, improving productivity, reducing the costs of trade, enhancing the joint stewardship of the environment, facilitating agricultural trade while creating a safer and more reliable food supply, and protecting people from disease.
The SPP is based on the belief that prosperity is dependent on security, and claims that the three nations are bound by a shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions. It is intended to assist, rather than replace, existing bilateral and trilateral institutions like NAFTA and claims to work towards the three North American countries working cooperatively in the face of common risks and economic competition from low cost comulti-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.
NASCO has received US$2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Superhighway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. There is huge opposition to this sort of highway development from many members of communities it would potentially displace as well as from many native groups and environmentalists that often oppose high way developments for the damage caused to the environment and the resources used.
The U.S. government is not planning a NAFTA Super Highway. The U.S. government does not have the authority to designate any highway as a NAFTA Super Highway, nor has it sought such authority, nor is it planning to seek such authority. There are private and state level interests planning highway projects which they themselves describe as "NAFTA Corridors," but they have not been revealed to be part of the SPP as of 2007.
North American Facilitation of Transportation, Trade, Reduced Congestion & Security (NAFTRACS) is a three phase pilot project designed to focus on business processes and information as freight is transported from buyers to sellers. The project is intended to create a partnership between businesses and local, state, and federal governments, while claiming to foster cooperation among the same entities.
North American Competitiveness Council
The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) is an official tri-national working group of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It was created at the second summit of the SPP in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, in March 2006. Composed of 30 corporate representatives from some of North America's largest companies, the North American Competitiveness Council has been mandated to set priorities for the SPP and to act as a stable driver of the integration process through changes in government in all three countries.
Trilateral Summit Meetings
To date, the following summits have occurred:
A video of the Waco SPP Trilateral Summit News Conference is available online. Trilateral Summit News Conference
Meeting between U.S. President Bush, Mexican President Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Harper. A U.S. White House press release regarding the Cancun SPP Trilateral Summit is available online.
President Bush Meets with President Fox in Cancun, Mexico
The meeting went almost unpublicized by local and national media outlet, and its narrow timeframe of announcement meant it was ignored by a vast majority of the public. It did, however, attract protesters who were concerned about excessive secrecy surrounding the event. Redacted meeting minutes of the meeting have been obtained and posted online.
February 23 2007 Meeting minutes]
The leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico had a major trilateral summit meeting, in relation to the SPP, at the Château Montebello, in
Montebello, Quebec. This conference was described as a public relations event with the purpose of promoting the SPP among investors and to reassure the public about the consequences of the plan.
Showdown Montebello! People versus the SPP A protest occurring during the event led to controversy, when labour leaders accused police of disguising themselves as demonstrators in order to incite violence.
Evidence of Deployment of Provocateurs Mounts The Quebec Provincial Police have admitted to the claims of police disguising themselves as demonstrators but denied any attempts to incite violence.
Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest
Criticism
Critics argue that the SPP is a "blueprint for building a European Union-style merger of the three countries of North America", creating a "North American Union".
North American union plan headed to Congress in fall. WorldNetDaily. May 24 2007 Some see the SPP as part of a larger plan for
world government, wherein currently existing sovereign states are first joined into regions.
ZeitgeistIn September 2006, United States Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., a Republican from Virginia, introduced resolution H.C.R. 487 which stated, in part, that the United States "should not engage in the construction of a
NAFTA Superhighway or enter into a North American Union (NAU) with Mexico and Canada".
North American Union threat gets attention of congressmen.
WorldNetDaily. October 1 2006.
CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has called such a North American Union "absolute ignorance... an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value".
Lou Dobbs on the North American UnionOn
May 10 2007, Conservative MP Leon Benoit, chair of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade, prevented University of Alberta professor Gordon Laxer from testifying that SPP would leave Canadians "to freeze in the dark" because "Canada itself – unlike most industrialized nations – has no national plan or reserves to protect its own supplies" by saying Laxer's testimony was not relevant, defying a majority vote to overrule his motion, shutting down the Committee meeting, and leaving with the other three out of four Conservative members; the meeting later continued presided by the Liberal vice-chair. After these disruptions, the National Post reported on a Conservative party manual to, among other things, usurp Parliamentary committees and cause chaos in unfavorable committees. The
New Democratic Party has also criticized SPP for being undemocratic, not open to Parliament, and opaque ; New Democratic Party leader
Jack Layton described the process as not simply unconstitutional, but "non-constitutional," held completely outside the usual mechanisms of oversight.
Rumors
According to a statement made by the president of Americans for Legal Immigration, the security hologram featured on the new
North Carolina drivers license About the North Carolina Driver License Hologram is the SPP logo.
North American Union driver's license createdOn August 31
2007, conspiracy theorist and Internet broadcaster
Hal Turner claimed to have arranged for a
United States Government minted Amero coin to be smuggled out of the
Treasury Department by an employee of that organization. Snopes has assessed Turner's story as "false".
See also
Related infrastructure projects:
- North American SuperCorridor Coalition - Connecting Mexico City, Central United States, and Several Canadian Provinces
- Trans-Texas Corridor - Connecting Mexico City and Northern Mexico and Texas
References
External links
- Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America: SPP Home
- Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, Canada
- Alianza para la Seguridad y la Prosperidad en América del Norte
- Goode: no union on continent
- US Government Agency SPP Documents
- Global Research
- Update on Hearings at Trade Committee re SPP from NDP MP Peter Julian
Critical
- Action against the SPP
- A Peek Behind Closed Doors
- North American Union
- Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership
- Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership Canada
- Building a North American Community, the Selling of America
- Article from the PRD website, in Spanish
- Articles from various blogs, News sources on SPP, NAU
- information on the destructive nature of the NAU/SPP
- Integrate This! Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership
Fact Sheet: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
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Judicial Watch
Follow the links below to read the recently released documents and learn more about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. JW News Releases
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