Tories storm out of meeting on sharing energy with U.S (Canada)

[jpak]

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=f50ef203-38f7-4714-bde6-313b33ad834b&k=54273

OTTAWA - Amid heated charges of a coverup, Tory MPs on Thursday abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S.

The firestorm erupted within minutes of testimony by University of Alberta professor Gordon Laxer that Canadians will be left "to freeze in the dark" if the government forges ahead with plans to integrate energy supplies across North America.

He was testifying on behalf of the Alberta-based Parkland Institute about concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a 2005 accord by the U.S., Canada and Mexico to streamline economic and security rules across the continent. The deal, which calls North American "energy security" a priority, commits Canada to ensuring American energy supplies even though Canada itself - unlike most industrialized nations - has no national plan or reserves to protect its own supplies, he argued.

At that point, Tory MP Leon Benoit, chair of the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade which was holding the SPP hearings, ordered Laxer to halt his testimony, saying it was not relevant.

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[Deja Q]

1. NAFTA already gives the US oil & gas control, what are they whining about?

Nice to know globalization really is about globalization, and not just the dismantling of a certain country (the US).

[dave_p]

7. Delete me

... Irony bypass emergency operation required.

btw that's not sarcasm, that's me asking to be deleted.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Whoa! Frankly, it's about time that the U.S. Congress started holding

hearings on this 'SPP'. Just the title of it is patent Luntzspeak!

[BlackHawk706867]

3. As far as I am concerned, the Liberals, NDP, and Block better be

fixing to introduce a non confidence vote on this Government very soon! These Tories were scary when elected, and becoming more so every day. The problem is when you get NDP voting with the Tories on issues such as staying in Afghanistan beyond 2009, makes it that much more scary.

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[jwirr]

4. I would like to know just exactly what the bottom line is for the thieves

in the oil industries of the USA. When we get right down to it capitalism has one very big flaw: when we cannot buy it cheap we find a way to steal it. This little idea goes back to the very beginning with the idea of manifest destiny and the natives who we systematically pushed off any land we wanted. They claim to be "Christians" but the means to achieve their goals are anything but Christian.

[The2ndWheel]

5. NAFTA — Toward the Continental "We"

If we have the energy(fairly large variable), it's only a matter of time.

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5182

To an amazing degree, Americans, Canadians and Mexicans still think of themselves as very distant nations. In economic — and increasingly cultural — terms, though, they are building a continental society, argues Jeff Faux, the founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute — and the author of “The Global Class War.”

[damntexdem]

6. Being totally screwed over is not relevant.

All that is relevant is what the Tories want to do.

Sounds like time for Canada to make the Tories irrelevant.

[seafan]

8. All part of the North American Union plan.

More at the link below on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP); Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC), or NAFTA Superhighway; bypassing the California dockworkers by offloading international shipping cargo at Mexico; a single currency, the Amero, etc.


This, if it is not stopped, will have grave consequences for everyone, except the very rich and now very powerful few.



CNN's Lou Dobbs reveals illegal political-military-industrial elite agenda to destroy Canada,US,Mexico, February 23, 2007


Another thread by Redstone, April 29, 2007


Tories storm out of meeting on sharing energy with U.S, May 11, 2007