Canada to sell out military to US?

[reprehensor]

That's the general gist of this article;
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1146174636411&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

Continental integration by stealth

"The BPG is, in actuality, advocating co-operation at the level of a single, U.S.-dominated command for all of Canada's territory and our surrounding seas. Under this plan, the entire Canadian Forces, unless deployed overseas in operations not led by the U.S., could find themselves under American "operational control" with Americans making all key day-to-day decisions...

"The BPG also recommends closer co-operation in security and foreign policy: "Canada and the U.S. must continue to act as partners; indeed ... the partnership must be expanded, to shape the future of North American defence and security, using all of the instruments of diplomatic, economic, informational and military power."...

"Ottawa intends to follow this recommendation when it brings the new NORAD agreement, complete with a provision on maritime surveillance sharing, before Parliament in one or two weeks...

"The fourth, most ambitious alternative involves "a truly integrated approach to continental defence and security through a deliberate melding of defence and security functions." This would be achieved by "establishing a single organization responsible for all-domain, bi-national warning and execution in the realms of defence and security."

This fourth alternative — full integration — is presented as the ultimate goal of improved co-operation."

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May I heartily recommend against this?

Let your MP know, this is bullshit. Just say NO to hegemony.

How low will Harper sink? About eye-level with W's belt-buckle is my guess...

[CanuckAmok]

1. The only difference is the label.

The fact is that the Canadian Forces' role as a defender of Sovereignty has been operating on information filtered and supplied by the US military for decades. With the exception of coastal S&R operations, virtually all CF operations at home and abroad are dictated by intelligence supplied by the US.

The DEW Line and the entire operational arm of NORAD has been under the direct control of the USAF since the early 1950s, despite the fact that most of the physical presence of these systems is on Canadian soil (or in some cases "Canadian ice").

Joint exercises with the US military have always been geared to the Canadians adapting to American procedure.

Most of our military equipment is build by US companies, or European companies owned by US corporations. Even our Army's own rifle, the C7/C8, which is manufactured in Quebec, is licensed from Colt.

Our own "special forces", the JTF2, receive advanced training, including interrogation techniques, from the JFK Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg.

In reality, there's not much of a leap from where we are now to actually being a part of the US Military.

Unfortunately, many of the locals in the regions in which we're deployed already believe we are.