TRADE-CANADA: Losing Water Through NAFTA

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A few thoughts about how NAFTA has really screwed Canada and Mexico ecologically..

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39365

Canada's water is on the trade negotiating table despite widespread public opposition and assurances by Canadian political leaders, said Adèle Hurley, director of the University of Toronto's Programme on Water Issues at the Munk Centre for International Studies.

A new report released Sep. 11 by the programme reveals that water transfers from Canada to the United States are emerging as an issue under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The SPP -- sometimes called "NAFTA-plus" -- is a forum set up in 2005 in Cancún, by the three partners, Canada, United States and Mexico.

Economic integration as envisioned by the powerful but little-known SPP is slowly changing the lives of Canadians, says Andrew Nikiforuk, author of the report "On the Table: Water Energy and North American Integration".

The SPP is comprised of business leaders and government officials who work behind the scenes and are already responsible for changes to border security, easing of pesticide rules, harmonisation of pipeline regulations and plans to prepare for a potential avian flu outbreak, Nikiforuk writes.

"The SPP is run by corporate leaders; governments are irrelevant," said Ralph Pentland, a water expert and acting chairman of the Canadian Water Issues Council.

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1. Canadians are now going to see what it is like to live under a

neo con govt.

Canadians may think they own their own water. NOT. the neo con corps. own it.

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2. Privitizing human rights

That is the neocon way. And people need to stand up to it... but will they?

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3. K & R (n/t)