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2007-10-17 "Although many conservatives refuse to accept the reality, George W. Bush is a one-world neo-liberal who drove budget and trade deficits to record heights....President Bush has pressed hard for the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the first step toward a North American Union that will threaten our sovereignty. The administration has permitted American businesses to hire illegal aliens, encouraged the invasion of 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and has given Mexico and corporate America dominion over our borders and our immigration policy....The assault on our national sovereignty continues....The president is urging the Senate to act favorably on our accession to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea....The treaty will submit the United States to international tribunals largely adverse to our interests, and dispute resolution mechanisms are stacked against the United States....The treaty would undermine our national sovereignty and act as a back door for global environmental activists to direct U.S. policy." Fortunately, in Congress, House Concurrent Resolution 40 states: "Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada."
-- Lou Dobbs in his CNN commentary "Beware the Lame Duck"
2007-10-08 Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: "Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency?"

Long term, very long term. What we propose together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all of the Americas. And everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came. He decided to isolate himself. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea...

KING: It's going to be like the euro dollar, you mean?

FOX: Well, that would be long, long term. I think the processes to go, first step into is trading agreement. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.
2007-08-21 In Montebello, Quebec, Canada, at the concluding press conference for the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Fox News reporter Bret Baier asked if the SPP is a prelude to a NAU similar to the European Union (EU), and if there are plans to build some kind of superhighway connecting all 3 countries.
President Bush replied: "If you've been in politics as long as I have, you get used to that kind of technique where you lay out a conspiracy and then force people to try to prove it doesn't exist."
2007-08-20 / 2007-08-21 Bush, Canadiab Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderón met at Château Montebello in Quebec to discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
2007-06 In Canada, a highly critical dialogue on the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) was organized at the University of Ottawa.

The Harper government refused to participate.
2006 According to the then-chairman of American Express, "NAFTA happened, because of the drive Bill Clinton gave it. He stood up against his two prime constituents, labor and environment, to drive it home over their dead bodies."
2006 In all three countries (Canada, United States. Mexico) it was the leaders of the political parties that had historically claimed to represent ordinary people -- the Democrats' Clinton, the Liberal Party's Jean Chrétien and the Institutional Revolutionary Party's Carlos Salinas -- who delivered NAFTA to their global corporate clients, undercutting their own constituencies.
2006 According to Jorge Castañeda, later Mexico's foreign secretary, NAFTA was "an agreement for the rich and powerful in the United States, Mexico and Canada, an agreement effectively excluding ordinary people in all three societies."
2006 NAFTA's 1,000-plus pages give international investors extraordinary rights to override government protections of workers and the environment. It sets up secret panels, rife with conflicts of interest, to judge disputes from which there is no appeal. It makes virtually all nonmilitary government services subject to privatization and systematically undercuts the public sector's ability to regulate business
2006 NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement is conceived under Ronald Reagan, nurtured by George H.W. Bush and delivered by Bill Clinton.

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