MEDIA RELEASE July 11, 2007

The Council of Canadians has been told it will not be allowed to rent a municipal community centre for a public forum it had planned to coincide with the next Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21. The Municipality of Papineauville, which is about six kilometres from Montebello, has informed the Council of Canadians that the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the U.S. Army will not allow the municipality to rent the Centre Communautaire de Papineauville for a public forum on Sunday August 19, on the eve of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit.

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PICKET HOME DEPOT on SUNDAY JULY 1 from 10:30 – noon @ 900 Terminal Avenue

*** EVEN IF YOU CAN’T MAKE THE INFORMATIONAL PICKET:

==> Contact Home Depot and tell them you oppose Home Depot’s participation in the NACC as advisors to the SPP. Advise them that you are considering/ will not be shopping at Home Depot unless they publicly announce that they will not participate in the NACC.

1) Talk to a Home Depot Supervisor at 1(800) 628-0525
2) Send a letter directly to Annette Verschuren, President, Home Depot Canada, 426 Ellesmere Road, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, M1R 4E7. To contact her directly, call 416-609-0852 and follow the prompts to get to her office.

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Learn about the NAFTA-Plus-Homeland Security Model
Thursday July 5 @ 6:30 pm
Rhizome Café, 317 E. Broadway
With films “New World Border”, excerpts from “Fourth World War” and speakers

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was founded in March 2005, in Cancun, at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and Mexico. Broken down, the SPP is NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model. The founding premise of the SPP is that an agenda of economic free trade and national security will result in human prosperity.

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Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP)BUSH–HARPER-CALDERON Meet in Kanada, August 2007. NOII Joins the Call to organize continental resistance to the SPP.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was founded in March 2005, in Cancun, at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and Mexico. Broken down, the SPP is a NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model. The founding premise of the SPP is that an agenda of economic free trade and national security will result in human prosperity. Yet we know that the so-called “prosperity” of previous free trade agreements such as NAFTA have only brought corporate prosperity, with increasing rates of poverty and displacement for the vast majority of people. For example, despite government rhetoric, the Economist Intelligence Unit (affiliated with The Economist) has reported that the implementation of NAFTA in Mexico has “failed to create even one formal job in net terms.” We also know that the “War on Terror” and the beefed-up national security apparatus has exacerbated insecurity and brought terror on the lives of millions of people locally and globally through immigrant raids, border militarization, foreign troop occupations, and repression of civil liberties and resistance movements. A September 2006 report in The Independent found that the “War on Terror” has “directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees, and cost the US more than the sum needed to pay off the debts of every poor nation on earth.”

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NAFTA: Kicked Up a Notch. Laura Carlsen | May 23, 2007. Foreign Policy In Focus

The North American Free Trade Agreement is the world’s most advanced example of the U.S.-led free trade model. It’s not just about economics any more. The expansion of NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership reveals the road ahead for other nations entering into free trade agreements. It is not a road most nations — or the U.S. public — would take if they knew where it led.

The first problem is that very few people know about this next step of “deep integration.” In March 2005, Presidents George Bush, Vicente Fox and Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership with a splash. Although it had few visible results, the Waco meeting of the “Three Amigos” set into motion an underground process that spawned its own working groups, rules, recommendations, and agreements — all below the radar of the legislatures and the public in the three nations. These rules and trinational programs have profound effect on the environment, the daily lives of citizens, and the future of all three countries.

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