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Canadian CEOs are at it again...
Fifteen years after the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and ten years after the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. and Mexico, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (the CCCE, formerly the Business Council on National Issues) is lobbying the federal government to move beyond NAFTA toward deeper integration with the U.S.
The C.D. Howe Institute calls it the "Big Idea". The CCCE calls it "reinventing the border".
It should be called the "trading away our independence".
Canadian corporate interests are currently peddling ideas such as:
• A Common Security Perimeter and participation in the National Missile Defence program (initiatives that would place Canadian troops under U.S. command);
• A North American Identity Card;
• A customs union with the United States (with similar trade policies and a common front at international trade negotiations);
• A common currency with the U.S. (abandoning the Canadian dollar);
• Harmonization of regulations and standards;
• Immigration and refugee policies subjected to U.S. standards;
• The administration of water through a Continental Water Strategy (which would result in our loss of control over our water);
• The administration of energy through a Continental Energy Strategy (which would result in a similar loss of control over energy);
• A health care system opened up to the American private health care providers.
The Council of Canadians has made the issue of Canada-U.S. Relations a top priority for the upcoming months. This section will feature information related to what the corporate elite is calling "deep or continental integration", obscure terms that hide serious consequences for the future of our country.
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