sovereignty
A nation, like an individual, must nurture its independence in order to maintain control of its destiny. Those that have failed at this task have in the past been colonized, or accepted the lesser status of protectorate or province. In his seminal 1965 work on Canadian nationalism, ‘Lament for a Nation’, philosopher George Grant viewed this independence as contingent upon Canada’s British roots, its past status as colony providing the cultural and ideological differences which had, until that point, set it apart from dreadnought America. Yet sovereignty is as much a function of economic independence as it is of identity, and both of these factors remain under threat. While Canada’s identity has left the crown behind and we now value our status as a peaceable, multicultural nation, successive leaders have accelerated Canada’s headlong dash towards not only a continental integration based upon economics and security, but a global one as well. While it may once have been arguable that balancing this uneasy bilateral relationship provided Canada with a clever opportunity to play these ends against each other, America has been diminished and now, backroom deals and treaties being formed without the knowledge or consent of the Canadian public tilt towards a ‘global governance’ steered by unelected central banks and stateless corporations. Canada, a nation with vast economic resources, must make this a matter of urgent national debate before we wake up one day, dependent and colonized once more by parasitic oligarchies far beyond the reach of democratic processes.
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2010
Future U.S.-Canada Joint Arctic Security and Control | Dollar should be replaced as international standard, UN report says | Global governance fail: National sovereignty stands tall at the G20 | G20 banking reform agreed upon, to be finalized in Seoul | Greece starts putting island land up for sale to save economy | Canada flunks on indigenous rights: G20 native protesters | EU wants control over member budgets | How will democracy fare under the G20’s new world order? | UK may try to stop Iceland joining EU over bank collapse refund | Canadian Forces exercise to be held in High Arctic with American, Danish troops | Strengthening NAFTA Ties and the Push Towards a Common Security Front | G20 agenda named as “global government” by thinktank, Toronto summit set to sit on hands | America would send troops to G8/G20 if required | Can-EU trade talks look good but face 3 potential sticking points: Spanish envoy | Israel to reject UN call for flotilla raid probe, MV Rachel Corrie under steam | Israel to deport all detained aid flotilla activists by end of day | EU trade pact may imperil local control over water | Obama sending 1,200 troops to Mexico border | European Council On Foreign Relations: EU Needs To Use Crisis For Greater Power | Canada’s navy cuts coast patrol fleet in half | EU wants member countries to co-ordinate budgets | Marc Emery, ‘Prince of Pot’ will be extradited | Lewenza: Canada-EU deal will affect more than trade | Fighter jets buzz Toronto, Muskoka in G20 test runs | Canada, EU at loggerheads over bank tax | Greece’s near bankruptcy won’t scuttle Canada-EU trade talks: minister | Harper calls for global economic governance, lauds G20 as ruling forum | Canada offers Michigan $550M loan for NASCO link bridge | Big stakes in Canada-Europe trade talks, but little attention | Flaherty wins delay in decision on global bank tax at interim G20 meeting | U.S. combat jets buzzing Ont. border city | Global bank tax urged by IMF | Oil sands deal gives China crucial voting bloc in bitumen export issue | Obama sets sights on Arctic oil and gas exploration | Clinton’s Arctic comments cheer Inuit | EU ‘Free Trade’ and CETA: Advancing the Transatlantic Agenda | CETA worse than ACTA — EU Trade Negotiators Demand Canada Completely Overhaul Its Intellectual Property Laws | While Government Treats Citizens As Terrorists, Mexican Military Invades U.S. | Pacific North American Regional Integration and Control | Frustrated Icelanders vent rage by voting no in referendum | West coast regionalization rears its head in ‘Cascadia’ | Iceland stares into Icesave abyss | Leaked UN Documents Reveal Plan For “Green World Order” By 2012 | EU executive recommends fast-track membership for Iceland | Inuit group blasts Cannon over summit | Precedent setting meeting called as Canada’s premiers attend Governors Association in Washington DC | Euro currency union shows strains | B.C., 3 US states sign accord for ‘Pacific North America’ hours before Olympic kickoff | Clashes reported as Iranians march on 31st anniversary of revolution | Indigenous groups left out of Arctic leaders’ summit | ACTA Is Called An ‘Executive Agreement’ To Implement Restrictive Copyright With Less Hassle Than A Treaty | A New Generation of ‘North American’ Citizens | EU cautions Greece about its deficit | Canada files ‘continental’ Copenhagen emissions target with UN | No solution in dispute over Iceland deposits | Harper urges G20 to follow economic accords | Iceland sets date for Icesave vote | A North American Security Perimeter Coming Into View | Iceland blocks central bank debt repayment deal
2009
Canada warms to idea of a tougher ‘perimeter’ | Copenhagen climate summit: plan for EU to police countries’ emissions | Copenhagen Accord Establishes Global Government Framework | Canada part of Copenhagen climate deal | Final Copenhagen Text Includes Global Transaction Tax | Beyond ACTA: Proposed EU — Canada Trade Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Leaks | UN Chief: We Will Impose Global Governance | Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak | Bombshell UN Climate Documents Reveal Planned “End Run” Around National Sovereignty | New Leaks of Secret ACTA Copyright Law Reveal Oppressive ‘Global DMCA’ | Building Blocks Towards an Asia-Pacific Union | Canada an ‘energy superpower’ in Arctic, Foreign Minister says | Bilderberg Appointee Van Rompuy Is First EU President | Europe chooses a quiet president | B.C. Nisga’a First Nation approves private property rights | ACTA Threatens Made-in-Canada Copyright Policy | German Chancellor Merkel Calls For A “New Global Order” on Berlin Wall anniversary | BC Native tribe will petition Ottawa to remove its Indian status | Canada commits to continental wilderness deal | Court upholds aboriginal fishing rights on Vancouver Island | Passing on the Mantle of Deep North American Integration | China launches ’strike hard’ crackdown in Xinjiang | Canada’s royal link has rusted out | Final round for UN climate talks open in Barcelona | Copenhagen’s Plans for a New ‘Government’ are Scary | UK: Secret Plan for Euro Income Tax | The time has come for North American monetary union | Iran agrees to draft deal on uranium: diplomats | Thatcher science adviser: Copenhagen goal is world government | Czech president sees EU constitution as creating ’super-state’ but too far gone to block | Interpol and U.N. Back ‘Global Policing Doctrine’ | Embryonic EU security office set up in secret talks under Lisbon Treaty | Ireland votes yes to Lisbon EU constitution | Irish go to polls to decide fate of Lisbon treaty | Blair to be named EU President ‘within weeks’ if Irish ratify Lisbon Treaty | Advance polls open in Irish vote on Lisbon EU constitution | New Czech move to block ratification of EU constitution | Bilderberg Wants Global Currency Now | G20 decides to become world’s new ruling economic council | UN approves nuclear ‘disarmament’ resolution | Gordon Brown urges EU to back new economic order | Harper’s Washington itinerary includes Obama photo-op, private meeting with CFR | Williams says international fish deal erodes Canadian sovereignty | Outcry in South America over US military base pact | Arctic borders will be defended: MacKay | Arctic expert questions Canada’s northern strategy | Northwest Passage surveillance study halted | Think Tank Report: Obama Will “Press The Reset Button” On North American Union Agenda | Akwesasne chief pushes for Mohawk sovereignty | Harper to meet Obama, Calderon in August | Icelandic parliament rolls over, votes for EU membership | Obama should rename the SPP, set up two speeds on integration with Canada and Mexico, says new report | How to fix the mess at the Canada-U.S. border | Temporary Cornwall border post opens, sidestepping native dispute | Yahoo! protects user privacy – and gets fined by Belgium | Medvedev Unveils “World Currency” Coin At G8 | Pope Benedict calls for a ‘true world political authority’ | Western Governments Funding Taliban & Al-Qaeda To Kill U.S. Troops, Destabilize Countries | US FEMA emergency management, Israeli IDF team up for martial law exercises | Happy North America Day? | Iraq Marks Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Cities | Brookings Publication mentions possibility of ‘Horrific Provocation’ to Trigger Iran Invasion | China calls anew for super-sovereign currency | Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated “Color Revolution?” | Ireland to hold second referendum on Lisbon Treaty | EU leaders reassure Irish in latest attempt to revive Lisbon treaty | Netanyahu backs an ‘independent’ Palestinian state for first time | Canada, U.S. will renegotiate Great Lakes water treaty | ‘New world order’ needs better economic grounding: Carney | Mohawk protesters block Ontario bridge over arming of border guards | Vancouver pot activist Marc Emery to plead guilty to U.S. drug charge | Akwesasne natives protest armed border guards, border crossing closed in retaliation | New border rules create ‘invisible Berlin Wall’: mayor | RCMP and US Coast Guard to integrate as Canada signs border pact with Homeland Security | New US border technology directed at insidious threat: Canadians | Quarter of a million Sri Lankans face two years in camps | Clinton defends new border restrictions | Tamil Tiger leader killed, insurgency crushed: officials | Pakistan is ‘abdicating to the Taliban,’ says Clinton | After Three Amigos rendezvous, White House confirms there’s no plan to reopen NAFTA | British Army to Police Medicine Hat During Urban Warfare Drills | Obama Nominates Globalization Advocates to Clinton’s State Department | Harper promotes NAFTA superhighway corridor hub in Manitoba | Moldova’s ‘Twitter Revolution’: Made in America? | G20 deal part of ‘unprecedented’ response to crisis: Harper | UK PM reveals G20 plan to boost IMF by $1 trillion, hails new world order (again) | World Bank President Admits Agenda For Global Government | Will U.S. financial woes lead to new world order? | U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy | US backing for world currency stuns markets | UN & IMF Back Agenda For Global Financial Dictatorship | US military may escalate ‘war on terror’ by striking deeper into Pakistan | UN chief, Obama to discuss closer integration | Canada expects EU free-trade talks soon: Stockwell Day | Volcker sees crisis leading to global regulation | Ignatieff on Obama visit: Crisis an opportunity for continental, global integration | Gordon Brown seeks sweeping reforms to give IMF global ’surveillance role’ | Paul Martin prescribes international regulatory body for ailing fiat economies | Increasing Number of States Declaring Sovereignty | Iceland to be fast-tracked into the EU | EU calls for global carbon trading system to fight climate change | How realistic is a North American currency? | Q&A: Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks with The Post’s John Ivison | UK-Irish travellers to face passport checks | Harper plays down threat to Arctic sovereignty | New policy emphasizes U.S. interests in Northwest Passage | Obama to visit Canada, Tories to propose ‘integrated carbon market’
2008
Detroit granted water extraction exemption due to ‘historical precedent’ | Bush Signs New Unified Command Plan for ‘Synchronized Global Planning’ | Get close to Obama on economy and security, paper says | Irish to vote on EU treaty again as experts warn Britain could be signed up within a year | EU Police to Stream into Kosovo Despite Protests | Press for Truth confronts Paul Martin on Bilderberg and the SPP | Canada backpedals on sharing ID database with U.S. | UK closer to joining euro, EU commission president says | Congressman Warns Of Secret Plans To Create International Central Bank | You’re not doing it right: New Irish vote on EU integration ‘legal’ | Quebec First Nations declare sovereignty, opposition to provincial development plans | U.S. air-security rules cause Canadian turbulence | Rich countries, corporations launch great land grab | John Manley, committed globalist, to chair Munk Centre’s School of International Studies | IMF: G20 meeting underscores need for greater surveillance, changes in global governance | Beijing peasants bullied, beaten off of family farms by state-developer blocs | Flaherty calls for mandatory IMF surveillance | Document Outlining IMF Economic Dictatorship Uncovered/Leaked? | Harper ready to harmonize with U.S. on climate change | Harper Govt. to push North American carbon market plan with Obama | TILMA interprovincial “trade pact” represents further centralization of political power | IMF may need to “print money”, act as “world’s central bank” as crisis spreads | History: How the US Government Was Overthrown In Three Easy Steps | Harper, Sarkozy vow to work toward Canada-EU deal | Behind the panic: Financial warfare over the future of global bank power | US Africom ‘has no hidden agenda’ | Paul Martin calls for ‘global solution’ | CD Howe Institute backs Canada-EU deal, deep integration | Towards a new world order: Canada-EU trade proposal rivals scope of NAFTA | NATO Considers Deploying Rapid-Reaction Force in States Bordering Russia | Architect of North American integration urges reboot | Canada’s made in America energy policy | Canadian ambassador to address fourth annual North American Forum in Washington | “North American Parliament” Meets At Integration Forum | New bridge slated for Windsor-Detroit corridor: sources | Student Mock Parliament to be held in Montreal Parallels Integrationist Aims of SPP | South American union is created | American Border Officers Want to Fingerprint Canadians at SPP Bridge | Business group sets and gets its agenda | Continental Business Lobby Releases List of Priorities for Government to Address at SPP Talks | North American ID card in the works through SPP | CBC-TV’s mini-series Trojan Horse is a very clever warning to Canadians about the North American Union agenda | New Documents Reveal North American Union PR Campaign | Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies
2007
Consider a continental currency: Jarislowsky | Vicente Fox Admits Plan For Single NAFTA Currency | Military To Crackdown On North American Union Protesters | North American Union plan headed to Congress in fall
1999
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