"Getting closer to Uncle Sam" {quote above from this article:
http://tinyurl.com/ecpjh
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We are getting closer to being Americans than we know:
- we don't know because the Conservatives are not telling us what their agenda is, and no comment is all we get after these meetings.
- we are getting closer because the Harper government is making moves that are erasing our soveriegnty from the USA.
There are two main groups of corporate heads who are crafting this agenda with the Harper government and the Americans - the Canadian Council of Chief Executives — the élite club of Canada's richest CEOs — and the Canada West Foundation, an Alberta think-tank that promotes, among other things, closer economic integration with the United States.
Please understand that these are "Elites", corporate Elites and some politicians. These people help support Harper and he helps them. Ordinary Canadians are just scum to any and all who were at that meeting, we can count on that { I know one of them personally]. They are planning our future without letting us in on any details.
What really bothers me is the military changes Harper has planned. Make it bigger, ramp up the funding for it, and make it so we can operate within the American forces "wherever they go, whatever they do".
Maybe we will change our legal framework so we can torture people too - even innocent people and then not get charged with any offence against humanity because, well, we are doing what America does.
Here are some points in the Agenda of the CCCE that have to do with Canadian military issues, from the CCCE website [link below]:
# Whatever the country's armed forces are asked to do, they must be equipped and trained to do well. Even assuming a significant increase in the total resources devoted to defence and security, review of defence policy, must specify the roles and missions Canada expects its armed forces to perform in protecting Canadian territory and as an instrument of its foreign policy.
# The imperative of excellence requires choices. Just as the government recently decided to forego replacing Cold War main battle tanks in favour of air transportable lightly armoured gun systems, the equipment and training of land, naval and air forces must be focused on the threats Canada is most likely to face in the years ahead.
# Whatever roles and missions Canada chooses, its military forces must be able to operate effectively in conjunction with those of the United States and other allies, within North America and globally.
http://www.ceocouncil.ca/en/canada/defence.php
They don't tell us much detail there, but we can see the general slant they are on, from their website.
They are telling us that we are facing a THREAT, now and in the future, and we know that means terrorists. I would remind everyone that Canada has yet to be attacked, and the USA has now lost more of its citizens to Bush's response to 9/11 than were killed in the 9/11 attacks themselves.
There is no threat. i don't feel it. The chances of any one of us individually getting killed by a terrorist are so miniscule here in Canada, even in the USA, that there realy is no threat. We don't need stronger military to deal with that.
Do we really want to follow Bush down this path?
Harper does.
Karlin
