Subject: Connie Fogal--1: Metamorphosis and Self-Sabotage of Canada .
Summary and Part one: The Metamorphosis and Sabotage of Canada by our Own
Government: North American Union

Corporations and the military are the driving forces towards a stealthy
development of a North American Union of Mexico, Canada and the U$, one
being developed without public discourse.

The ultimate enforcement mechanism for the North American Union is a police
state. The tools for the police state are "anti-terrorist" laws.

Anti Terrorist laws are a ruse to strip the citizens of civil liberties in
order to prevent dissent against the police state. The Orwellian
justification is "security", "safety".

Now read on --

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:39:59 -0700
From: Connie Fogal <conniefogal@telus.net>

Ms. Fogal is a long-time activist lawyer, leader of the Canadian Action
Party / parti action Canadienne. Constance (Connie) Fogal (born 1940) is
the leader of the Canadian Action Party. A lawyer and former teacher,
Fogal lives in Vancouver where her late husband Harry Rankin was a long
time progressive city councillor. She is an anti-globalization activist
and was an opponent of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the
North American Free Trade Agreement. She has also been active with the
"Canadian Liberty Committee".

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Summary and Part one: The Metamorphosis and Sabotage of Canada by our Own
Government: North American Union


The Meta-morphosis and the Sabotage of Canada by our Own Government:


Summary:

The North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign
nations (Canada, USA, Mexico) into one regional corporate power base, the
North American Union. Unlike the creation of the European Union, there is
no public political/ academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of
a North American Union building up to a vote within each nation as to the
wish of the people to join such a union.  Instead the union is being
created by stealth, is already well on its way to fruition, and is being
imposed on us by our own elected representatives and government with no
opposition.

   The driving forces are corporate and military. The Chief Executive
Officers of the most powerful corporations operating in the three countries
want this union and have been working for some time devising their
strategies and goals. Their facilitators are first, unelected officials and
bureaucrats who move easily between corporations and government; second,
former elected officials like John Manley , former Deputy Prime Minister of
Canada; third, the heads of the three nations, Martin, Bush, and Fox; and
finally, the governments and the rest of the elected members who apparently
just rubber stamp what is put in front of them by the unelected officials-
few questions, if any asked.

The ultimate enforcement mechanism for the North American Union is a police
state.

   The tools for the police state are "anti-terrorist" laws.

Anti Terrorist laws are a ruse to strip the citizens of civil liberties in
order to prevent dissent against the police state.

The Orwellian justification is "security", "safety".

Part one deals with the North American Union of Canada USA and Mexico. It
is being created by the corporate side under the North American Task Force,
and the military side by the Binational Military Planning group.

Part Two deals with -Laws Arrangements and Agreements all of which throw
away our sovereignty, independence,  and our civil liberties.

1. The Canada -U.S. Smart Border Declaration with a 30 point action plan
signed Dec 12,2001
2. The Public Safety Act, 2002  with despotic powers to certain Cabinet
Ministers
3. The Anti Terrorism Act currently under review
4. The Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement signed by Bush and
Martin in March of 2005
5. 40 Point Smart Regulation Action Plan announced March 24 2005

Part Three deals with the effect of all this bad law, some history, and
what to do about it.

   I am sending my article  in three parts over time due to its length. Part
one is included in this e mail.  I have included many urls to take you to
sources to substantiate what I am saying.  I continue to be surprised by
the number of people who still refuse to believe that the scenario I
describe  is happening, and who demand to be taken off my broadcast lists.

   This article will also be available in full on the CAP/PAC website.

Connie Fogal


The Metamorphosis and Sabotage of Canada by our Own Government

Part 1- North American Union

                  The Metamorphosis of Canada, USA and Mexico  into the
North American Union

Canadian patriots have been focusing on the wrong threat- annexation to the
U.S.A with no voting rights, only colony status like a  Gibraltar. The real
plan emerges. The fact is that we are now already metamorphosing into
something else- A North American Union comprised of Canada, U.S.A.,and
Mexico.  The goal is an internally  borderless North America rid of the
constitutional structures and rules of the separate nations that created
and protected  the democratic fabric of the respective peoples.

This Union is planned, directed, organized and coordinated by  unelected,
unaccountable people of  the military /industrial complex with a few
academic apologists thrown  in for good measure. It is being facilitated by
all three elected  governments. This is the same military/industrial
complex that General Eisenhower warned against.

This group is creating a despotic regime for the pursuit of their interest
(rapacious greed and power) which is diametrically opposed to the needs and
interests of the citizens in all three countries. Their  plan is to make
all of North America their power base acting in their interest only. Forget
the people

The two bodies (one corporate, one military) which have been  functioning
for some time  to create this treasonous union are well advanced in that
formation.  They are:  the Canada-U.S.A-Mexico  task force and The
Binational Military Planning Group.

   1. The corporate side:  the Canada-U.S.A-Mexico  task force

The Canada-U.S.A-Mexico  Task Force is comprised of the  leading CEOs of
the most powerful corporations from Canada, USA and Mexico, prominent
former officials, businessmen, and academic apologists from all three
countries.  They are: (a.) From  U.S.A. - Council on Foreign Relations;
              (b).  From Mexico- the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos
Internacionales;
               (c.)  From Canada: Canadian Council of Chief Executives-
Founded in 1976, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives is Canada's
premier business association  composed of the chief executives of 150
leading Canadian enterprises. The CCCE was the Canadian private sector
leader in the development and promotion of the Canada-United States Free
Trade Agreement during the 1980s and of the subsequent trilateral North
American Free Trade Agreement.

This task force is currently headed by Canada's own former Liberal Deputy
Prime Minister, John Manley (who allegedly seeks to replace Paul Martin as
Prime Minister).

This task force was sanctioned by the three leaders, Prime Minister Martin,
President Bush and President Fox, in March of 2005 at a special meeting in
Texas at Bush's ranch at which the three leaders  signed the Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America.

   In practice, the elected governments of the three countries are the
willing dupes promulgating laws that impose a police state in order to
enforce rules that enable the new regime. Some would call this treason.

(2) The military side: The Binational Military Planning Group-

Founded in late 2002,its mandate is to lay the groundwork for the
integration of a Canada -US military command structure, and the
militarization of civilian law enforcement, and judicial function in Canada
and the USA. Their stated mandate is first to prepare contingency plans to
respond to land and sea threats, and attacks, and other major emergencies;
and  second,  to plan for coordinated response for military assistance to
civil authorities in the event of  threat  or attack, and  for civil
emergency in Canada and the USA.

Neither of the Task Force nor the Military Planning group  is  accountable
to the US Congress, nor to the Canadian House of Commons, nor to the
Mexican government, and certainly Not to the citizenry.

1. Let's focus first on the corporate side, the Canada- USA- Mexico task
force.

See: Trilateral Task Force Recommendations
http://www.usembassycanada.gov/content/can_usa/northamericancommunity_TF_fin
al.pdf

And: Trilateral Commission website
http://www.trilateral.org/

And: Council on Foreign Relations: Trinational call for a North American
Economic and Security Community by 2010

http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=7914

These Canadian, U.S., and Mexican elites are the same players who gave us
the FTA and the NAFTA. They continue their work creating a North American
union that  integrates our economies and transforms our total policy-making
capacity away from the public interest and away from the public good.

This plan goes by various names:
·       Deep Integration
·       Harmonization
·       NAFTA-plus
·       the "Big Idea" (C.D. Howe Institute)
·       the "North American Security and Prosperity Initiative"
·       Americanization

The plan of this Canada-U.S.-Mexico  task force is to establish a
continent-wide customs union with a common approach to trade, energy,
immigration, law enforcement and security that would virtually eliminate
existing national borders. The task force released its recommendations  for
a common North American in May 17/18 2005.There was minor reference to it
in mainstream media- no headline presentation. The recommendations include:

* *  a common security perimeter by 2010.
* *  a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers.
* *  a unified border  and expanded customs facilities.
** a single economic space: (It is this area that would destroy any
opportunity to bring back the use of our Bank of Canada.)
* * a common external tariff.
* *  seamless movement of goods within North America.
* * Full labor mobility between Canada and the U.S.  (Note: they apparently do not want

the Mexican labourers??)
* * A North American energy strategy -as a regional alternative to Kyoto.
* * Review those sectors of NAFTA that were excluded.
* * A North American regulatory plan that would include "open skies and
open roads" and a unified approach  on food, health, and the environment.
* * Expand temporary worker programs and create a "North American
          preference" for immigration for citizens of North America.
* * A North American Investment Fund to build infrastructure to
          connect Mexico's poorer regions in the south to the market to the north.
* * Restructure and reform Mexico's public finances.
* * Fully develop Mexican energy resources (Mexico wisely kept their energy out of NAFTA)
* * A permanent tribunal for trade and investment disputes.( Here is where any vestige

of democratic government disappears)
* * An annual North American summit meeting.
* * A Tri-national Competition Commission with a common approach to trade remedies.
* * Scholarships for  a network of Centers for North American Studies. (To serve the corporations)

Below is the list of the Members of the Independent Task Force on North America - Many

are members of the Trilateral Commission - a similar corporate interest group from the USA,

Japan and Western Europe )

Minister Pedro Aspe (Mexican co-chair), Protego
Mr. Thomas S. Axworthy, Queen's University
Ms. Heidi S. Cruz, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Mr. Nelson W. Cunningham, Kissinger McLarty Associates
Mr. Thomas P. d'Aquino (Canadian co-vice chair), Canadian Council of Chief Executives
Mr. Alfonso de Angoitia, Grupo Televisa, S.A.
Dr. Luis de La Calle Pardo, De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C.
Professor Wendy K. Dobson, University of Toronto
Dr. Robert A. Pastor (U.S. co-vice chair), American University
Mr. Andréés Rozental, (Mexican co-vice chair), Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales
Dr. Richard A. Falkenrath, The Brookings Institution
Dr. Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Instituto Tecnolóógico Autóónomo de Mééxico
Mr. Ramóón Alberto Garza, Montemedia
The Honorable Gordon D. Giffin, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Mr. Allan Gotlieb, Donner Canadian Foundation
Mr. Michael Hart, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Mr. Carlos Heredia, Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales
The Honorable Carla A. Hills, Hills & Company
Dr. Gary C. Hufbauer, Institute for International Economics
Dr. Luis Rubio, CIDAC
Dr. Jeffrey J. Schott, Institute for International Economics
Mr. Pierre Marc Johnson, Heenan Blaikie
The Honorable James R. Jones, Manatt Jones Global Strategies
Dr. Chappell H. Lawson (Task Force Director), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Honourable John P. Manley (Canadian co-chair), McCarthy Tetrault
Mr. David McD. Mann, Cox Hanson O'Reilly Matheson
Ms. Doris M. Meissner, Migration Policy Institute
The Honorable Thomas M.T. Niles, Institute for International Economics
The Honorable William F. Weld (U.S. co-chair),Leeds Weld & Co.
Mr. Raul H. Yzaguirre


The few media references to the task force parrot the Orwellian double
speak of the task force and politicians. The effect is to trick the people
into believing this process  is something good for us. But if you read
carefully, you can identify  that the regime change is all about the greed
of an elite few. In order to manipulate us into accepting the regime
change, they pretend it will protect us from "terrorists". Terrorism has
become the external threat, the bogey- man replacing Communism, just as
Moslems have replaced Jews as scapegoats..

  From Reuters:

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States, Canada and Mexico should establish
a common security perimeter to guard against terrorism in North America, a
tri-national independent task force said in a report released on Tuesday.

The countries should police their borders together to help border trade,
allow easier movement of citizens and to keep out potential security
threats, the task force said at New York's Council on Foreign Relations.

'If our two borders, the one between Canada and the United States and the
U.S. and Mexico, became a frontline for security the impact that would have
on normal relations and economic relations would be profound,' said
co-chairman John Manley, a former Canadian deputy prime minister and
minister of finance."

  From All American Patriots News:

"May 17, 2005--North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region
faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic
competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home. In
response to these challenges, a tri-national, Independent Task Force on the
Future of North America has developed a roadmap to promote North American
security and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.

Pointing to increased competition from the European Union and rising
economic powers such as India and China in the eleven years since NAFTA
took effect, co-chair Pedro C. Aspe, former Finance Minister of Mexico,
said, 'We need a vision for North America to address the new challenges.'
The Task Force establishes a blueprint for a powerhouse North American
trading area that allows for the seamless movement of goods, increased
labor mobility, and energy security.

John P. Manley, Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Finance said, 'We are asking the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and
Canada to be bold and adopt a vision of the future that is bigger than, and
beyond, the immediate problems of the present,' 'They could be the
architects of a new community of North America, not mere custodians of the
status quo.'" (My underlining.)

In other words, forget Canada; forget the United States of America; forget
the United States of Mexico. Sounds rather treasonous to me!!

Let us be very clear here. What the task force addresses is an
economic/legal system in their interest with a police state to enforce it.

This task force is extrapolating  the globalization process into a North
American unit. Under the mantle of the WTO (an agreement in its own right,)
there is in process a  transformation of the forces of power in the world
from sovereign national control of resources over to the global corporate
control. It is what they call "deregulation" and"privatization".  That is
why they called all the agreements "Free Trade".  They meant free from
regulations and controls that protect consumers and the public generally,
including protections from theft of the commons.

Now the intent is for transfer from global corporate control to regional
corporate control, e.g., European Union,  North American Union; that is,
corporate political control free from government accountability to
electors.  The North American task force seeks to create a unit even freer
from the vestigial citizen involvement that exists in the E.U. (Britain and
Australia are  lackeys of the United States.)

The  FTA, the NAFTA, are well known. The Canadian Action Party and other
concerned Canadians  have been detailing the harm of these agreements for
years. CAP has  steadfastly called for the abrogation of the FTA and NAFTA.
We have always said," Issue the 6 month notice to abrogate!" The most
recent justification for abrogation  is the U.S.'s refusal to pay back $5
billion  they owe our lumber industry for illegal duties the U.S. charged.

Despite years of proof of uneven and unfair use by the USA of the rules of
the FTA and NAFTA, including  the unfair closing of the U.S side of the
border to Canadian beef, the Liberals, Conservatives, the NDP, and the Bloc
Quebecois have refused to call for abrogation.  It is only in the face of
the clarity of this latest U.S. abuse of  Canada that all of them are beginning to

pretend they are not wimps or complicit dupes. Still, none of them is willing to say,

"Abrogate, period!" How much longer are we willing to tolerate these politicians

who not only meekly submit to being stomped on, but then turn to their attacker

and apologize for being victimized?

Why do they do this? It is because all of their most influential leaders
are members of this elite group who seek to remove democracy and entrench
plutocracy. It is not a question of what is good for the citizens of
Canada, U.S.A or Mexico. Note that the United States is turning that $5
billion which has been stolen from the Canadian lumber industry over to
their own lumber barons, not their general body of citizens.

This North American Impetus is a natural political extension and outgrowth
of all these global economic arrangements as the greedy financial elite
look around for the best ways to effect their goals. It has everything to
do with the destruction of democracy and the death of  freedom. These
corporate bodies have  no allegiance to the nation they happen to operate
in, or to its people.

Other harmful international agreements include the General Agreement on
Trade and Services, (GATS), the Financial Services Investment Agreement,
(FSIA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas, (FTAA), the Central American
Free Trade Agreement, (CAFTA). All of these grow out of the World Trade
Organization, (WTO), itself being an agreement that commands an ongoing
deregulation and privatization process.

The eventual goal is to have all of North and South America as one regional
power block stronger than anything in Europe or Asia. Fortunately for human
beings, South America has not been the easy pushover that the corporations
presumed, so they have to settle for  a North American Union for now. (Why
do you think Pat Robertson, a U.S. religious leader, on national U.S.
media, and on Canada's C.B.C., recently called for the Assassination of
Hugo Chavez, the Leader of Venezuela?)


There exists a North America Bureau of the Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade.
See:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/main/front_page/north_american_bureau-en
.asp

The role of the North America Bureau is twofold:

      * to advance, in cooperation with other parts of the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canadian diplomatic missions in
the United States and Mexico, and other Canadian Government departments and
agencies, Canada's wide-ranging interests in its relations with the United
States and Mexico; and

      * to promote Canada's broad foreign policy objectives within and
through the Canada-US and the Canada-Mexico bilateral relationships.

In fulfilling this role, the Bureau is organized into four divisions:

      * the United States Relations Division,
      * the United States Transboundary Division, and
      * the United States Business Development Division and
      * The Mexico Division


2.  Let's now look at the second body, The Binational Military Planning
Group. (Source Michel
Chossudovsky.    http://www.globalresearch.ca
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CH0411C.html

Chossudovsky says the people of NORAD and the Binational Planning Group are
the same .  They operate the same command. NORAD has essentially been
scrapped. It has been integrated into US Northern Command,  and Canada has
become a de facto member of NORTHCOM under the auspices of  the Bi-national
Planning Group. (BPG).

So, when Prime Minister Paul Martin said "no" to Star Wars, he did  not
really say no. He lied to us.

The Binational Planning Group was set up in late 2002 after Prime Minster
Chrétien refused to join NORTHCOM. The creation of Northcom had
been  announced unilaterally in April 2002 by Defence Secretary Donald
Rumsfield who dictated that the US Northern Command would have jurisdiction
over the entire North American region.  Canada and  Mexico were presented
with a fait accompli. US Northern Command's jurisdiction set out in the US
DoD includes the continental US ,all of Canada, Mexico, portions of the
Caribbean, contiguous waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans up to 500 miles

off the Mexican, US and Canadian coastlines, as well as the Canadian arctic.

Northcom was being quietly negotiated with Ottawa's Department of Defence
and the PMO.  Under NORTHCOM  the US military will cross the border and
deploy troops  anywhere in Canada, in our provinces as well as station
American warships in Canadian territorial waters.  The locale for these
discussions is not in Canada, but at the Peterson Air Force base in
Colorado, the headquarters of the US Northern Command(Northcom) .

Chossudovsky reports that Rumsfeld is said to have boasted that "the
NORTHCOM with all of North America as its geographic command 'is part of
the greatest transformation of the Unified Command Plan (UCP) since its
inceptions in 1947'"

When PM Chretien refused to sign on the dotted line, Rumsfield et al, the
military establishment, both US and Canadian, refused to take no for an
answer.  They immediately created a new name to accommodate the concept of
NORTHCOM and called it  the Binational Planning group .  It is still
operating out of the Peterson Air force base.  It was supposed to last only
for two years but its mandate has been renewed to spring of 2006. 

(Note- look for a Canadian  election before the expiry date.

The BPG has a staff  of 50 US and Canadian military planners laying the
groundwork fo the integration of Canada -US military command
structures.  The BPG works in close coordination with the Canada-US
Military Cooperation Committee at the Pentagon- responsible for detailed
joint military planning.

Respecting missile defence, Martin told the press on  February 22,2005:
"[The Americans] were told we will not participate." "It is a firm 'no.'"

Chossudovsky reminds us that simultaneously, Frank McKenna ambassador
designate to the US, in a contradictory statement,  told the media "
Canada's participation in the controversial BMD is a "done deal". It's de
facto. It was part of a negotiation process initiated two years ago.

"We're part of it now and the question is what more do we need?" said
McKenna. "There's no doubt, in looking back, ... that the NORAD amendment
has given, has created part, in fact a great deal, of what the United States means

in terms of being able to get the input for defensive weaponry."

What Ambassador McKenna was hinting at, without revealing the substance of
US-Canada  negotiations (behind closed doors), is that NORAD is a defunct
military body.

So the military side of this treason is waiting for government sanction in
the spring of 2006 after our next election. Once again the arrogant
confidence is at least irritating if not alarming.

Even though there is no official sanction yet, de facto sanctions exist as
Canada  is participating more and more  in the US wars.. Now we have more
troops in Afghanistan, and General Hilliard is warning Canadians to be
prepared for  the body bags  returning to Canada. There is something really
wrong with this picture.

In a comprehensive report prepared shortly before the Bush-Martin talks
November 2004, the BPG made recommendations on: " how the two countries'
militaries can work together more effectively to counter these [terrorist]
threats. ... formalizing cooperation already taking place on an informal
basis." (Statement of BPG spokesman, US Department of Defence Information,
November 3, 2004)

With regard to military negotiations, McKenna knows what is happening
behind the scenes. He was on the board of directors of the Carlyle Group
together with Bush Senior and Frank Carlucci (The bin Laden family were
investors in Carlyle until 9/11).

Carlyle, is the leading private equity investor in the aerospace and
defence industries in the US and Canada. It plays a key role in the
formulation of US defence and foreign policy. It has a vested interest in
Canada's integration into NORTHCOM.
Michel Chossusdovsky points out that "Canada's participation in the
Bilateral Planning Group and hence the Northern Command implies Canada's
acceptance not  only of Star Wars, but of the entire US war agenda,
requiring significant  hikes in Canada's defence spending. The latter are
intended to fuel the  military-industrial complex. Canada's defence
contractors are supportive of this process."

Chossudovsky points to  Canada's February 2005 budget, released on the day
following P.M. Paul Martin's categorical "No" to the Missile Defence Program.

Chossudovsky notes that "an additional $12.8 billion dollars (Cdn) (over the next five years),

has added to Canada's spiralling defence budget. The stated objective is to 'burnish the
country's credibility as a global peacekeeping partner'."

Chossudovsky notes further that the budget  is not meant to refurbish the country's

conventional military hardware, but rather will be channelled to Canadian weapons

producers, many of which are affiliates of US defence conglomerates, upon Canada's

accession to NORTHCOM.. He lists some major players in Canada's defence industry:

General Dynamics (Canada), Bell Helicopter Textron (Canada), General Motors Defense,

CAE Inc, Bombardier, SNC-Lavalin Group, etc.


So we can see that those two bodies, the trilateral task force and the Bilateral Planning group, 

are well entrenched in process.

The fact is that most Canadians oppose this deep economic and military integration.

Now the greedy corporations are  staking out a claim on more and more land
in a region of North America  in order to be bigger, and better and more
profitable  than a group of corporations from another regional block. The
European Union was the first block. There is a rising Asian block. I am not
the first to see the USA attacks on  the middle east as a means of
preventing the Asian blocks from becoming the most  powerful . The third
region is the Americas. South America has not been an easy go for the
globalizers. So the focus is  concentrating for now on North America.)

By examination  of the arrangements and deals happening under our noses but
by stealth, we can see that our worries expressed over the years are coming
to fruition. The globalizers are well  into the  process of implementing a
clear regime run by them, about them, for them, and enforced by
governments. The masses of people do not count except as cannon  fodder in
the wars of conquest and as  slaves for  the production process .

There  is every  intention  of regime change from democracy to tyranny. Our
governments are already the willing whipping boys being the instruments of
social control. They have no shame in removing our civil liberties and
destroying our constitutional protections .This is happening all around the
world with the USA, Britain, Australia and Canada being the most advanced
in the regime change process. It is an outrage and a disgrace that Canada
is now competing with Britain to become the lowliest lick spittle groveling
agent  to the USA led regime change process. There is nothing good in this
regime change process for the citizen.
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Connie Fogal, Leader ,Canadian Action Party/ parti action Canadienne
Tel: (604)872 2128; or (604) 708 3372
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