Mel Hurtig, book seller, publisher, politician, and author of "The Truth about Canada", speaks at a confernce about privatization, in Parksville, BC, October 4, 2008
This short video highlights some key points that demonstrate why the Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP) between Canada, the United States and Mexico should be the key issue of the 2008 federal election campaign in Canada. The SPP affects every aspect of our lives and if left to continue on its current course could spell the end of Canada as a sovereign, democratic country. For more information visit www.canadians.org and watch the other videos posted on the canadiansnanaimo youtube channel.
Advocates of social justice rallied against the political representatives who together with corporate representatives are planning profitable services without the consent of paying citizens. Video Part 1 - 17 minutes
The stupendous fortunes that were-and still are being extracted by the European and North American investors should remind us that there are very few really poor nations in what today is commonly called the Third World. Brazil is rich; Indonesia is rich; and so are the Philippines, Chile, Bolivia, Zaire, Mexico, India, and Malaysia. Only the people are poor. Of course in some areas, as in parts of Africa south of the Sahara, the land has been so ruthlessly plundered that it too is now impoverished, making life all the more desperate for its inhabitants.
... the Third World is not "underdeveloped" but overexploited. The gap between rich and poor nations is not due to the "neglect" of the latter by the former as has been often claimed. For forty years or more we have heard how the nations of the North must help close the poverty gap between themselves and the nations of the South, devoting some portion of their technology and capital to the task. Yet the gap between rich and poor only widens because investments in the Third World are not designed to develop the capital resources of the poor nations but to enrich the Western investors.
This video is about a complete restructuring of Canadian, US and Mexican laws and transportation infrastructure that is taking place behind closed doors - without Canadian Parliament, U.S. or Mexian Congress oversight or approval.
People of Vancouver toppled a statue of Bush as a way of protesting his visit in 2004. They vehemently protested again on August 20, 2007 when Bush, Calderon, and Harper met in Montebello, Quebec for the SPP Summit.
Vision Party councillors "want to support and participate in the negotiations that relate to how British Columbia municipalities will be affected by the BC-Alberta Trade Agreement" TILMA.
NPA majority council wants to "endorse the benefits of TILMA for BC."
Only Clr. David Cadman clearly and enfatically rejects TILMA as a bad deal for all citizens.
The Trade, Investment, and Labour Mobility Agreement between Alberta and BC is revealed, by Lawyer Stephen Shrybman, as the imposing of extreme constraints on what governments can do.
Former Premier
Dave Barrett suggests that politicians abdicating their power to regulate businesses should be recalled.
