Globalism's toll mounting for U.S. citizens

[michaelvail]

It’s not just U.S. ports that are fast slipping into foreign ownership; it’s highways, too. A Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., has bought the right to operate a toll road through Texas and collect tolls for the next 50 years.

The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first leg of what has been dubbed the NAFTA Super Highway to go through heartland America all the way to Canada. This would be a major lifeline of the plan to merge the United States into a North American Community.

http://www.thought-criminal.org/2006/08/22/globalisms-toll-mounting-for-us-citizens/

[Quequeg]

1. Most liberals do not seem concerned about this union, but they should be.

I think part of the problem is that conservatives have jumped on this issue first - like Jerome Corsi of Swift-Boating fame on this website HumanEvents.com... So, many liberals think, "oh, this is a right-wing issue."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965

But I did find one liberal site from Canada that can talk about this issue (they call it "Deep Integration") in a way that can reach a liberal audience:
http://www.canadians.org/browse_categories.htm?COC_token=&step=2&catid=310&iscat=1

Deep integration between Canada and the United States is not a theory or a fear – it is a reality. For several years now, a plethora of task forces, working groups, commissions, coordinating committees and cross-border consultations have been operating to harmonize Canada-U.S. programs and procedures. This has led to an incremental and systematic harmonization of Canadian and American regulations and standards governing health, food safety, and all aspects of the environment.

This harmonization process has been central to the demands of the big-business community in Canada. They contend that the only way to secure trade across the border and continued access to the U.S. market is to merge trade and border policies, including all regulatory, environmental and inspection systems. The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), an organization that lobbies the government on behalf of Canada’s largest corporations, argues that because the economies of the two countries are now so integrated, our domestic laws are essentially redundant.

Those pushing for deep integration are looking at a common customs union, as well as harmonizing existing policies, standards and regulations to a common norm. Combined with joint Canada-U.S. inspection and security procedures, this would essentially wipe out the Canada-U.S. border. This push will lead to the privatization of our health care, the loss of control of our resources, further compromises in trade deals like what we have seen with the softwood lumber dispute.

But there is hope. We can stop the integration of Canada with the United States by demanding that the Canadian government stop working with big business and put a moratorium on deep integration initiatives.

This is not a call to put up borders around Canada. Nor is it an announcement of presumed moral superiority with respect to our neighbours. What I believe, and what The Council of Canadians believes, is that Canada must decide if it is in our interest to forge deeper economic, foreign policy, social and resource ties with the United States under its most aggressive government in modern history, or if we are going to stand with moderate countries and people around the world to form a counterweight.

Here's a description of the Task Force for the Future of North America, which is composed of leaders from the 3 countries: Canada, U.S., and Mexico.
http://www.canadians.org/browse_categories.htm?COC_token=&step=2&catid=374&iscat=1

The Task Force for the Future of North America is composed of mostly people from Big Business... In fact, the name of the organization in Canada that is promoting the union is the "Canadian Council of Chief Executives".
http://www.canadians.org/display_document.htm?COC_token=&id=1087&isdoc=1&catid=374

www.GlobalismScorecard.org

[alvarezadams]

2. Thanx to neoliberalism

and its supporters in the GOP and DLC.