Student Mock Parliament to be held in Montreal Parallels Integrationist Aims of SPP
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
statismwatch.ca
May 7, 2008
From the 25th to the 30th of May, as association styling itself the “North American Forum on Integration“ is hosting a mock parliament for one hundred university students from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In a press release on the site heralding the creation of the ominous-sounding “Triumvirate”, Raymond Chretien, Canadian Ambassador to the US at the time, crowed that “The creation of a North American parliament, such as the one being simulated by these young people, should be considered.”
Those who hadn’t been aware that today’s generation of young leaders were being groomed to participate in a continental government may note with some interest the presence of Robert Pastor on the board of NAFI. Pastor, author of the now famous “Building a North American Community”, published under the auspices of the powerful (and unelected) American policy thinktank, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), has long been a powerhouse advocate for the administrative merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico. In addition to authoring various studies in cooperation with the CFR and similarly placed organizations such as the Trilateral Commission and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Robert Pastor has served on the US National Security Council, is the director for the Centre of North American Studies, and is also a director at the “Centre for Democracy and Election Management”
The Triumvirate agenda for 2008 includes discussions of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (the State Department initiative pushing for harmonization and enhancement of cross-border documents, such as driver’s licenses with integrated biometric data), NAFTA chapter 11 tribunals, and promises “To develop the participants’ sense of belonging to North America.”
The website roguegovernment.org puts the question a bit more bluntly: “What other purpose can be behind this event besides the mass indoctrination of well meaning students?” What indeed. It may be time for Canadians to begin asking themselves the hard questions as well in the interests of this nation’s sovereignty, since it appears that we cannot leave this task in the hands of either our elected leaders or our academic institutions: they have simply passed the ball along to policy thinktanks to do their thinking for them as well.
“For the first time, “North America” is more than just a geographical expression. NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America… ” — Robert Pastor, “North America’s Second Decade” from Foreign Affairs (January/February 2004)