MURRAY GETS 4 YRS FOR MJ CASE

DR MURRAY GOT 4 YRS IN PRISON BY THE JUDGE.THE JUDGE CALLED HIM A LIER-DECIEVER AND TRICKER OF EVERYONE HE DEALT WITH IN THIS CASE.THE JUDGE ALSO SAID THE TAPE MURRAY MADE OF JACKSON ALL DOPED UP COULD HAVE BEEN BRIBERY AGAINST JACKSON IF MURRAY WAS NOT ABLE TO GET HIS WAY.AFTER THE SENTENCE BY THE JUDGE WAS ANNOUNCED A PERSON ON CIA CNN COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK SAID THAT IN CALIFORNIA THE SENTENCE AUTOMATICALLY WILL BE REDUCED TO 2 YRS AND SINCE CALIFORNIA JAILS ARE OVER CROWDED MURRAY WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ELLIGABLE FOR HOUSE ARREST DO TO NON VIOLENCE OF HIS CASE.

AND ALSO NEXT WEEK THE LEADERS OF CANADA(HARPER) AND OBAMA(USA)WILL MEET TO INTIGRATE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE BORDERS.MEANWHILE THE IMMAGINITIVE WAR ON TERROR BY OUR GOVERNMENTS LEAVE THE BORDERS WIDE OPEN FOR THESE SO CALLED TERRORIST TO CROSS THE BORDER.THIS MEETING WILL PROBABLY BE THE MEETING THAT OFFICIALLY MERGES CANADA,USA AND MEXICO INTO THE NORTH AMERICAN TRADE BLOC TO GO WITH THE OTHER 9 REGION WORLD TRADE BLOCS TO DIVIDE THE WORLD INTO 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS CONTROLLED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMIC CHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY OR SELL WITHOUT THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTED 2,000 PLUS YEARS AGO.

DANIEL 9:26
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (69x7=483 YRS TO THIS POINT, THE FINAL 7 YR TREATY IS IN THE NEXT VERSE TO FULFILL THE 490 YEARS OF DANIELS PROPHECY.
9:27 And he (THE FUTURE ROMAN PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3RD TEMPLE DESECRATED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.(WW3)

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/12/z-end-time-signs.html

New U.S.-Canada border plan raises privacy concerns
28/11/2011 10:57:55 PM CTVNews.ca Staff
http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/new_us-canada_border_plan_raises_privacy_concerns/e4f3a999 (VIDEO)

Canada's new border action plan will feature a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea, CTV News has confirmed.The new, 32-point border action plan will be signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama when the pair meet at the White House in Washington next week.But despite concerns about privacy stemming from personal information that will be shared with American authorities, the federal government insists there is little to worry about.When I go to the United States today, you have to provide your home, your birth date, your passport information, your travel information, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. Whenever we look at security, we keep in mind privacy concerns are tremendously important to Canadians, and that's something we feel very strongly about.But the office of the privacy commissioner has already pointed out that that the federal government has yet to share any details of the new border rules.In past public comments, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has made it clear that Canadian sovereignty and privacy rights must be protected.

Rather than jumping into a newly defined relationship with both feet, we should only do so with both eyes wide open, Stoddart wrote on her blog recently.In exchange for more information about travelers crossing the border from Canada, Washington has responded to a chief Canadian gripe about cross-border traffic: gridlock.Along with security, parts of the new border plan will focus on trade, including pre-screening stations set up on Canadian territory, meaning less congestion at the actual border crossing.The problem today is that we have bottlenecks at the border, said Perrin Beatty, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. You have low-risk cargo, low-risk passengers crossing the border at the same time as high-risk.Beatty said that the new plan will allow Canada and the U.S. to focus resources where it's needed the most.Under the terms of the new deal, the U.S. will move to cut down on traffic at border crossings and allow pre-screenings on certain low-risk cargo trucks. IN an effort to speed the process, U.S. officials will only flag suspicious vehicles at the border rather than doing full inspections that hold up other passengers and cargo.

According to Birgit Matthiesen, from the trade association Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, doing so will be good for the bottom line in both countries.But the 32-point plan also features more than just new border-crossing protocols.In fact, both nations plan to streamline and harmonize regulations in the automotive and food sectors.According to Beatty, the new rules are the result of the integrated nature of the continental economy.In particular, Ottawa has already quietly prepared regulations to adopt U.S. crash-testing standards for seat belts and built-in child booster seats.According to Matthiesen, the harmonized regulations will ensure that business is better integrated on both sides of the border.It will save both Canadian companies, and their U.S. buyers in a highly integrated supply chain, millions of dollars, she said.Some features of the beyond the border plan could be in place within months. Others, including the exit-entry scheme, will take longer to implement, CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Monday.Prepared with a report from CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife

NEWS: What will be in the 32-point Beyond the Border action plan? By Brent Patterson, Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
http://canadians.org/blog/?p=12324

CTV reports, A new, 32-point border action plan will be signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama when the pair meet at the White House in Washington next week. It’s expected this will be December 6 or 7. According to the CTV report:

1-Canada’s new border action plan will feature a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea… The office of the privacy commissioner has already pointed out that that the federal government has yet to share any details of the new border rules.

2-Parts of the new border plan will focus on trade, including pre-screening stations set up on Canadian territory… The U.S. will allow pre-screenings on certain low-risk cargo trucks. In an effort to speed the process, U.S. officials will only flag suspicious vehicles at the border rather than doing full inspections that hold up other passengers and cargo.

3-Both nations plan to streamline and harmonize regulations in the automotive and food sectors (recognizing) the integrated nature of the continental economy. In particular, Ottawa has already quietly prepared regulations to adopt U.S. crash-testing standards for seat belts and built-in child booster seats.

Yesterday, Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson wrote that the plan will include:

1-A new entry-exit system that will track everyone coming into or leaving Canada by land, sea or air. …(This) will enable the federal government to, among other things, ensure that landed immigrants are actually living in Canada. …Many will balk at the iris scans or other biometric measures that doubtless will come with the new entry-exit controls…

2-It will harmonize a plethora of regulations and safety standards in the automobile, food and other industries.

3-It will make it easier to obtain temporary work permits and a trusted-traveller document that will allow frequent crossers to skip the lineup at Customs.

4-Air, land and maritime inspections will be more fully integrated…
5-Both sides will be able to more easily detect and deter cyber threats.

What kind of regulatory alignment might we expect to see as a result of the Beyond the Border action plan? In April, Macleans magazine reported that the Beyond the Border consultation in the United States submission have been received from, Target Corp. …who bemoan conflicting regulations between the US and Canada in areas such as product standards, testing facilities, customs procedures and documentation; …the biotechnology industry association asked that both countries adopt consistent science-based processes that would significantly decrease the time required for authorization of biotech crops and their products; …several US agricultural groups asked for harmonization of the maximum permissible pesticide residue levels for produce; (and) the US Chamber of Commerce…suggested examining wherever possible what can be done to align health care regulatory frameworks between the US and Canada for medical devices and pharmaceuticals. In September, Bloomberg reported, Proposals in the auto industry would implement common rules for safety and emissions standards. Cooperation on energy may lead to a ‘Canada-U.S. regime for permitting oil-and-gas pipelines,’ the report said. Canada’s customs agency said in June it is looking at ways to speed inspection of food products that are imported by companies that qualify as posing little risk.

From both polling, see http://canadians.org/blog/?p=5597, and the federal government’s own consultation, http://canadians.org/blog/?p=10175, it is clear that Canadians are very concerned about the border action plan. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted in February 2011 found that, 91 per cent of Canadians say the negotiations (on perimeter security) should take place in public so that they can see what is on the table. …Canadians want Harper to adopt a much more transparent approach to the…negotiations which are being held in total secrecy.The poll also showed that, (68 per cent) of Canadians fear Prime Minister Stephen Harper will compromise by giving up too much power over immigration, privacy and security to get a deal with the United States on border controls…

Deep Integration: A Timeline
UPDATE: Deep Integration Timeline (abridged) August 2009. PDF

September 11, 2001
The Canada-U.S. border closes temporarily after terrorists attack the World Trade Center buildings in New York City.

September 25, 2001
Citing 9/11, Thomas d’Aquino, president of the Business Council on National Issues (now the Canadian Council of Chief Executives), says that Canada should engage in more fundamental harmonization and integration with the U.S. if we are going to keep the border open to trade.

November 26, 2001
Thomas d’Aquino and other unnamed leaders send a letter to Jean Chrétien and George W. Bush calling for a smart border between Canada and the U.S. that would use technology to enhance both security and the flow of goods and people across the border.

December 12, 2001
Without legislative or public debate, Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge sign the Smart Border Declaration, a 30-point plan to harmonize security and anti-terrorism regulations in the two countries, including the creation of a common no-fly list and passenger surveillance system.

April 2002
The C.D. Howe Institute releases a report by University of Toronto professor Wendy Dobson calling for deeper integration with the United States, including a North American customs union, a common market, a resource sharing pact and full participation in the U.S. war on terror.

June 28, 2002
John Manley and Tom Ridge announce progress on the Smart Border Declaration, including stepped up intelligence cooperation and a common approach to screen international air passengers before they arrive in either country and identify those who warrant additional security scrutiny.

September 26, 2002
Canadian citizen Maher Arar is detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and held for 12 days, then deported to Syria where he is imprisoned and tortured for a year. In 2006, a Canadian government commission into the affair blames the hasty sharing of faulty information between Canadian and U.S. security agencies.

January 2003
The CCCE launches the North American Security and Prosperity Initiative, calling on the governments of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to further integrate their three economies through a new deal. The deal would include a comprehensive resource security pact covering agriculture, metal, minerals and energy; sharing the burden of defence and security; and creating a new institutional framework for North American integration.

April 3, 2003
The CCCE establishes a 30-member CEO Action Group on North American Security and Prosperity. Its members include leaders from Canada’s largest corporations, including EnCana, Dofasco, CAE, General Motors, TransCanada Pipeline, BMO, Alcan and SNC Lavalin. North American economic integration is well advanced and irreversible and now, in the face of global terrorism, the economic and physical security of the continent are indivisible, said Tom d'Aquino. Canada and the United States should take the lead, in consultation with Mexico, in developing a new paradigm for North American co-operation.

April 2004
Paul Martin’s Liberal government unveils Canada’s first-ever national security policy, called Securing an Open Society, which is aimed at responding to the new threat environment through a coordinated approach with other key partners – provinces, territories, communities, the private sector and allies.While building on the Smart Border Declaration with the United States, the new security policy contains many elements that will end up in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, including increased cross-border cooperation on intelligence, pandemic preparedness and transportation security.

October 15, 2004
The U.S. Council on Foreign Relations launches a tri-national Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, which is vice-chaired by CCCE President Thomas d’Aquino and co-chaired by John Manley. Task Force members include prominent integrationists like Wendy Dobson, Pedro Aspe, Luis de la Calle Pardo and Carla Hills, all of whom will later participate in a secret North American Forum meeting to discuss continental integration in Calgary, Alberta from September 12 to 14, 2006.

November 30, 2004
Following George W. Bush’s first visit to Canada, then Prime Minister Paul Martin gives birth to the SPP by issuing a joint statement on common security and prosperity called, A new partnership in North America. Security priorities include: improving the coordination of intelligence-sharing, cross-border law enforcement and counter-terrorism; … increasing the security of critical infrastructure, including transportation, energy, and communications networks, and to, pursue joint approaches to partnerships, consensus standards, and smarter regulations that result in greater efficiency and competitiveness, while enhancing the health and safety of our citizens.

February 14, 2005
The Council of Canadians releases leaked minutes from an October 2004 Task Force on the Future of North America meeting that describe bulk water exports as a politically hot long term goal of integration that should be broached at a later date. Also being discussed by the task force are: eliminating current NAFTA exemptions for culture; crafting a North American resource pact that would allow for greater intra-regional trade and investment in certain non-renewable natural resources, such as oil, gas, and fresh water; and a North American brand name to portray North America as a sort of club of privileged members. There are also plans to encourage a North American identity among students in all three countries.

March 14, 2005
The Independent Task Force on the Future of North America releases a preliminary report, calling for the creation of a North American economic and security community by 2010. Although it didn’t include controversial hot suggestions, such as a water-sharing agreement, among the report’s key recommendations are the establishment of a continental security perimeter, a common external tariff, a common border pass for all North Americans, a North American energy and natural resources strategy, and an annual meeting where North American leaders can discuss steps toward economic and security integration.

March 23, 2005
At a meeting in Waco, Texas, George W. Bush, Paul Martin and Vicente Fox issue a joint statement announcing the creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. The tri-national agreement, which essentially brings Mexico into the Canada-U.S. partnership announced in November 2004, contains almost all of the recommendations on continental economic and security integration proposed by the Independent Task Force and the CCCE’s Security and Prosperity Initiative before it.

October 2005
The first North American Forum brings together U.S., Canadian and Mexican government and business representatives to discuss issues related to continental economic and social integration; it is held at a secret location in Sonoma, California. Invitees include John Manley, Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Carlos de Icaza, Chevron CEO David O’Reilly, former head of the CIA James Woolsey, and a host of U.S. policy advisors to George W. Bush. There is one article about the forum in the North American media.

January 10-11, 2006
The Council of the Americas, United Postal Service and the North American Business Committee host a Public-Private Sector Dialogue on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in Louisville, Kentucky. The meeting is attended by 50 government officials and business leaders from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, including members of the Canadian Privy Council Office, the Mexican Presidency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and corporate reps from ExxonMobil, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Tyco, and FedEx. Attendees discussed marrying policy issues with business priorities, musing that, leadership from governments that recognizes the importance of business issues to the overall social welfare empowers the private sector to engage substantively and pragmatically on trade and security issues without undue deference to political sensibilities.A North American Competitiveness Council to drive the SPP process is proposed.

January 23, 2006
The Conservatives take office in Ottawa with a minority government as Prime Minister Stephen Harper promises to make Canada-U.S. relations a top priority despite polling data showing that the issue falls well below health care and the environment for the Canadian public.

March 31, 2006
At the second SPP summit in Cancun, Mexico, President Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and then Mexican President Vicente Fox announce the creation of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). This corporate working group is charged with directing the SPP process and includes at least 10 CEOs from each country, including representatives from Lockheed Martin, Wal-Mart, General Motors, Home Depot Canada, Canfor and Suncor.

June 15, 2006
The NACC is officially launched at a joint press conference held by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba and Canadian Industry Minister Maxime Bernier. According to a report from the Council of the Americas, the purpose of institutionalizing the North American business community's involvement in the SPP process was so that the work will continue through changes in administrations. Furthermore, the NACC is to make sure that, governments look to the private sector to tell them what needs to be done. According to a Canadian government press release, the NACC has a mandate to provide governments with recommendations on broad issues such as border facilitation and regulation, as well as the competitiveness of key sectors including automotive, transportation, manufacturing and services.

August 15, 2006
The NACC meets in Washington, D.C. to hash out priority issues for the SPP. The business leaders decide that the U.S. members will deal with regulatory convergence, the Canadians will handle border facilitation, and the Mexican members will devise a plan for energy integration.

September 12-14, 2006
The North American Forum meets for the second time, in Banff, Alberta, this time to discuss demographic and social dimensions of North American integration, security cooperation, and a North American energy strategy. Once again, the meeting is kept secret, despite the involvement of high-ranking military officials, politicians and top bureaucrats – including Stockwell Day, who refuses to disclose the content of his speech to the media.

November 23, 2006
The Harper government releases a financial outlook document called Advantage Canada: Building a Strong Economy for Canadians. Advantage Canada praises the SPP effort to seek regulatory convergence on border security. It also indicates that the federal government is working with the provinces to speed up and streamline the environmental assessment process, particularly as it affects cross-border infrastructure projects. Furthermore, Advantage Canada emphasizes the importance of huge trade corridors to the economic wellbeing of the country, and looks to the private sector to help with all new infrastructure projects. For its part, Canada’s New Government intends to establish a federal P3 office that will facilitate a broader use of P3s in Canadian infrastructure projects,says the document.The Government will also encourage the development and use of P3 best practices by requiring that P3s be given consideration in larger infrastructure investments that receive federal program funding.Under the SPP’s transportation agenda is an initiative to examine the benefits of an intermodal transportation concept for north America,the goal being to move foreign goods, mostly from Asia, quickly through North America to key markets in the United States.

February 8, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day join a handful of deputy ministers and government policy advisors at a dinner meeting in Ottawa with members of the NACC and CCCE, including Tom d’Aquino. According to information acquired by the NDP, the goal of the meeting was to provide an opportunity, for Canadian members to regroup and focus their planning in advance of the February 23, 2007 SPP ministerial meeting, also in Ottawa.

February 23, 2007
SPP ministers, including Maxime Bernier, David Emerson, Stockwell Day, and their U.S. counterparts Michael Chertoff and Carlos Gutierrez, meet with the NACC to discuss the progress of the integration agenda. The NACC releases a report containing 51 recommendations, including: Complete negotiations, sign a new North American Regulatory Cooperation Framework in 2007, and ensure consistent application of standards and regulatory requirements within each country. The corporate body suggests that, upon signature of the framework, a North American Regulatory Cooperation and Standards Committee, which includes the private sector, should be formed to survey on a regular basis the variety of standards and regulatory differences by industry that impede trade and seek to reduce the identified differences or develop other mechanisms to lessen their impact on the competitiveness of North American industry.

March 19, 2007
The Conservative government releases its 2007 budget – Aspire to a Stronger, Safer, Better Canada – in which it promises to improve Canada’s regulatory framework by moving to finalize a new modern approach to smart regulation, and by working with the United States and Mexico through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America to improve regulatory coordination and cooperation. At the heart of the government’s strategy is the adoption of a new Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation that will come into effect on April 1, 2007. Budget 2007 provides $9 million over two years to implement this initiative.

March 30-April 1, 2007
Over 1,500 people converge on Ottawa for Integrate This! Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a public teach-in on deep integration organized by the Council of Canadians, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Canadian Labour Congress, Common Frontiers and a host of other groups.

April 1, 2007
The Government of Canada’s new Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation comes into effect, requiring that all government departments take into consideration the “cost or savings to government, business, or Canadians and the potential impact on the Canadian economy and its international competitiveness,” as well as the “potential impact on other federal departments or agencies, other governments in Canada, or on Canada's foreign affairs” before moving ahead with new rules on everything from food and drugs to pesticides to the environment and public health. The directive moves regulation in Canada further away from the precautionary principle and more in line with the U.S. focus on risk assessment and voluntary compliance.

April 13, 2007
Leaked documents acquired by the Council of Canadians reveal that bulk water exports from Canada to the United States are in fact being discussed in relation to the SPP. The North American Future 2025 Project, which is led by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Conference Board of Canada and the Mexican Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, involves a series of closed-door meetings on North American integration dealing with a number of highly contentious issues including bulk water exports, a joint security perimeter and a continental resource pact.

April 24, 2007
The Council of Canadians holds an open-door meeting in Calgary to discuss the threat of bulk water exports posed by North American integration and the SPP in light of closed-door meetings of government officials and business reps to discuss continental water management happening that same week.

April 27, 2007
North American transport ministers, including Conservative MP Lawrence Cannon, meet in Arizona for an SPP meeting, in order to confirm and advance our commitment to developing coordinated, compatible and interconnected national transportation systems. Developing an intermodal transportation concept for North America is an SPP initiative. A key milestones under that initiative commits transport ministers to, work toward establishing an intermodal corridor work plan and a Memorandum of Cooperation pilot project. The Arizona meeting, which the ministers describe as the first in a series, appears to be the beginning of this pilot project.

May 1, 2007
Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow addresses the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade regarding the SPP, energy and bulk water exports.

May 7, 2007
CanWest News Service reports that Canada is set to raise its limits on pesticide residues on fruit and vegetables as part of an effort to harmonize Canadian pesticide rules with those of the United States, which allows higher residue levels for 40 per cent of the pesticides it regulates. According to the article, which appeared in papers across the country, the effort is being fast-tracked as an initiative under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a wide-ranging plan to streamline regulatory and security protocols across North America. The article proves that regulatory harmonization as spelled out in NAFTA and the SPP puts downward pressure on regulations and that higher standards are rarely if ever mutually adopted between harmonizing parties.

May 10, 2007
Conservative MPs storm out of parliamentary hearings into the SPP after the Tory chair of the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade interrupts a presentation from Council of Canadians board member Gordon Laxer linking the SPP to tar sands production. Committee chair Leon Benoit can’t see the link between the SPP and energy security for Canada, despite energy integration being a key priority of the SPP and of the NACC. The meeting continues after all but one Conservative MP leaves the room.

June 11, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier, along with his chief of staff and several other policy advisors, meets with the three national NACC secretariats at the Americas Competitiveness Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. According to information acquired by the NDP, the minister received feedback on the NACC’s recommendations and heard its next steps.

June 18, 2007
Transport Canada’s no-fly list, called Passenger Protect, comes into effect. Airlines begin checking passenger names against a list of people deemed so dangerous to the flight that they should not be allowed to board. Passengers who appear on the list may appeal mistakes to an office of reconsideration. Security experts agree that Canada’s list will inevitably merge with the much larger U.S. no-fly list – a key priority of the SPP’s security agenda. Canada’s airlines have already been using the U.S. list, which contains almost 500,000 names, and news reports from late May 2007 indicate they will continue to rely on it rather than Passenger Protect.

July 31, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day attend a working lunch with eight of the 10 Canadian NACC members plus Tom d’Aquino of the CCCE, according to information obtained by the NDP. Topics for discussion include expectations for [the] North American Leaders’ Summit and Canadian priorities, the role of the NACC, and an update on the Prime Minister’s recent visit to Latin America.

August 17, 2007
In a sure sign that opposition to the SPP is making an impact, the Liberal party releases a report called, Strong and Free: The Liberal Blueprint for the North American Leaders Summit at Montebello, Quebec. The report incorporates the Council of Canadians’ demands on the SPP, including disclosing the complete list of SPP working groups, their contact persons and participating membership [and] requiring them to provide opportunities for public input. Liberal party leader Stephane Dion promises, Should the Prime Minister fail to level with Canadians, we will table a resolution calling on the government to inform Canadians of the work and negotiations of the SPP, and to report to the House of Commons to allow for parliamentary scrutiny and a full and informed debate when the Parliament reconvenes.

August 19, 2007
Thousands of people take to the streets of Ottawa to protest the SPP on the eve of the third annual Leaders Summit taking place the following day in Montebello, Quebec. According to later reports by the CBC, the Ottawa Police Service spent $3.7 million on security for the day. Following the protest, the Council of Canadians brings hundreds of people together at a public forum at the University of Ottawa where they hear about deep integration from civil society representatives from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, as well as from representatives of all four major opposition parties.

August 20, 2007
Like the day before, thousands of protesters head to Montebello where they confront almost as many police officers surrounding the Fairmont hotel where Prime Minister Harper is meeting with Presidents Bush and Calderón. News reports several weeks later peg security costs for the Quebec police force alone at over $7 million. Harper refers to the gathering outside as sad, while CCCE President Tom d’Aquino likens the protesters to barbarians at the gates. I do not say to myself, If I don’t get an hour with the prime minister in the next six months, I’m going to go out and protest and reject the system outright,he tells CBC News. I don’t do that because civilized human beings – those who believe in democracy – don’t do that. Later that night, d’Aquino and the CCCE spend another hour or two with Industry Minister Jim Prentice, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge, as well as several other deputy ministers, foreign officials and NACC members, at a dinner in Ottawa, according to information obtained by the NDP. Council of Canadians activist and filmmaker Paul Manley posts a video of the day’s events on YouTube that depicts what look like three rock-wielding undercover police officers – agents provocateurs – in the crowd.

August 21, 2007
The third annual SPP Leaders Summit wraps up in Montebello with a joint statement by Prime Minister Harper on progress and next steps. But the headlines are about the YouTube video depicting agents provocateurs. (The Quebec police force at first denies that there were undercover agents then admits it in an embarrassing flip-flop.) Harper makes light of the protests by claiming the leaders were discussing jellybeans, while at the same time he announces four major new SPP developments: an Intellectual Property Action Plan; the long-anticipated (by the business community) Regulatory Cooperation Framework; a North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza; and a treaty-level Agreement for Cooperation in Energy Science and Technology. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will later release a report on regulatory harmonization with the United States in which it notes that a side-agreement – Regulatory Cooperation in the Area of Chemicals – that appears on the U.S. SPP website was not announced by the Canadian government.

October 12 - 14, 2007
The third annual North American Forum takes place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Like previous years, the guest list and agenda were kept secret but the Canadian Labour Congress receives a copy of the latter. According to the leaked agenda, this year’s forum was called, North American Cooperation and Community.Leonard Edwards, deputy minister of foreign affairs, moderated a session on the Strategic dimensions of the North American security and prosperity partnerships, while Tom d’Aquino spoke on a panel addressing the topic, Investing in competitiveness: new ideas and options for infrastructure, borders and business – Public/private partnerships, municipal bonds and border development.

October 16, 2007
The Munk Centre’s Project on Water Issues releases a report by Andrew Nikiforuk called, On the Table: Water, Energy and North American Integration. Confirming repeated statements by the Council of Canadians, the report states that: There is now a formal framework for discussing Canada’s water as a trade item – the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) – which met most recently in August 2007 at Montebello, Quebec… While this summit focused publicly on other continent-wide issues, the concept of trade in water has remained quietly but persistently present under the larger banner of trade relations.

November 29, 2007
A Federal Court judge rules that Canada must reconsider the Safe Third Country Agreement it signed with the United States in 2004, because, Washington flouts conventions meant to safeguard immigrants against torture in their homelands, according to a Globe and Mail article. The Safe Third Country agreement was a cornerstone of the Smart Border Declaration of 2001 and a major component of the plan to harmonize refugee and immigration policies. The court gives both parties (the Government of Canada and the Canadian Council for Refugees) until January 14 to make and respond to submissions for an appeal.

January 22, 2008
British Columbia becomes the first province to offer an enhanced driver’s licence compatible with licences in Washington State to meet new U.S. security demands amidst widespread public concern with the new technology. Canada’s Federal Privacy Commissioner slams the cards as tamper-prone and unnecessary. RFID technology would make it possible for governments to track individuals carrying enhanced driver’s licenses and access personal information stored on the card, she says in a subsequent press release. The new licence, which requires the sharing and storing of citizenship and other personal information with U.S. authorities, has the potential to become a de facto North American ID card through ongoing initiatives of the SPP.

January 28, 2008
In his final State of the Union address, President Bush announces that the next SPP summit will take place at the end of April in New Orleans. Tonight the armies of compassion continue the march to a new day in the Gulf Coast, said Bush, referring to the record number of charitable and faith-based groups filling in where the U.S. government continues to pull out of social service provision and disaster recovery plans. America honors the strength and resilience of the people of this region. We reaffirm our pledge to help them build stronger and better than before. And tonight I’m pleased to announce that in April we will host this year’s North American Summit of Canada, Mexico, and the United States in the great city of New Orleans. A subsequent White House press release clarifies that the summit will take place April 21 and 22, 2008. The Harper government issues no such press release.

February 8, 2008
Prime Minister Harper creates a Cabinet Committee on Afghanistan and an Afghanistan Task Force based on recommendations from John Manley’s earlier task force on Canada’s role in the ongoing occupation. At the head of the Cabinet Committee is former Liberal and former Canfor CEO David Emerson – hardly a military expert but very tight with Washington. Emerson, a former vice-chair of the CCCE, has been an SPP minister since the beginning, first as Industry Minister with two previous Liberal governments, then as International Trade Minister with the Conservatives since February 2006. His involvement with the Afghanistan file is more proof that the mission has more to do with appeasing the Americans than with helping the Afghani people.

February 14, 2008
Canada Command and U.S. Northern Command sign a joint Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation… during floods, forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and effects of a terrorist attack. The new agreement, which appears to complement the emergency preparedness component of the SPP North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza, is a project of the Bi-National Planning group, a joint Canada-U.S. military think tank that has recommended the two countries sign a Comprehensive Defence and Security Agreement.

February 26, 2008
The Harper Conservatives unveil their 2008 budget, which explicitly includes $29 million in SPP funding, although the actual number is five times higher. Not included in that number is a further $136 million for various SPP-linked security initiatives, such as higher-security electronic passports, an expanded NEXUS program at ports of entry, enhanced driver’s licences, the introduction of biometric data into visas for foreign nationals and a permanent facility to enhance the security of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway region. The Harper budget falls on the same day that U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tell Ohio democrats that they will withdraw from NAFTA if elected president unless the agreement can be altered to better protect workers and the environment. Canadian politicians scramble to defend the free-trade agreement in subsequent media statements.

February 27-28, 2008
Industry Minister Jim Prentice joins his U.S. and Mexican counterparts in Los Cabos, Mexico for the annual closed-doors pre-summit SPP ministerial meeting. After the meeting, which includes an intimate briefing with the CEOs of the North American Competitiveness Council, the three government representatives announce the agenda for the upcoming SPP summit in New Orleans: Continue to implement the strategy to combat piracy and counterfeiting, and build on the Regulatory Cooperation Framework by pursuing collaboration through sectoral initiatives, with an emphasis on the automotive sector; Strengthen cooperation to better identify, assess and manage unsafe food and products before they enter North America, and collaborate to promote the compatibility of our related regulatory and inspection regimes; Develop projects under the newly signed Agreement on Science and Technology, and cooperate on moving new technologies to the marketplace, auto fuel efficiency and energy efficiency standards; Strengthen cooperation protocols and create new mechanisms to secure our common borders while facilitating legitimate travel and trade in the North American region, and; Strengthen emergency management cooperation capacity in the North American region before, during and after disasters.

March 5-6, 2008
Civil society, farmers and fair trade groups, as well as progressive legislators from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, gather in Washington, D.C. to talk about NAFTA’s real impacts on agriculture, labour, development and migration, and to explore NAFTA's evolution through the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and what can be done in the coming year to develop a strong tri-national movement for a more fair, just and equitable trading model on the continent. Following the conference portion on March 5, interested groups, including representatives from a grassroots network in New Orleans, spend the following day planning for the April 21-22 SPP summit.

March 19, 2008
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez gives an off-the-record debriefing to America’s corporate class on the Los Cabos ministerial meeting from February 27 to 28, 2008. According to a U.S. press release, the 1.5-hour meeting, which takes place in Washington, D.C., will include members of the NACC Executive Committee and Advisory Committee and private sector representatives with a stake in the process.

April 21-22, 2008
Fourth annual meeting of North American leaders and CEOs to discuss progress to, and new initiatives for, the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

February 20, 2008
While campaigning for the Democratic party leadership, future President Barack Obama writes in an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News that: Starting my first year in office, I will convene annual meetings with Mr. Calderón and the prime minister of Canada. Unlike similar summits under President Bush, these will be conducted with a level of transparency that represents the close ties among our three countries. We will seek the active and open involvement of citizens, labor, the private sector and non-governmental organizations in setting the agenda and making progress.

February 26, 2008
Both Barack Obama and Democratic leadership rival Hillary Clinton commit on television to renegotiating NAFTA. I've said that I will renegotiate NAFTA, so obviously we'd have to say to Canada and Mexico that that's exactly what we're going to do… we will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it, says Clinton, vowing to eliminate the right of companies to sue the federal government (Chapter 11) for enacting measures to protect workers. I will make sure that we renegotiate in the same way that Senator Clinton talked about, Obama adds. I think, actually, Senator Clinton's answer on this one is right. I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage.

April 21-22, 2008
Fourth annual North American leaders summit takes place in New Orleans. The SPP’s future is questioned when one news columnist refers to the New Orleans meeting as the Siesta Summit and business leaders wonder openly whether there’s enough political will to keep the talks going.

May 2, 2008
Data from the 2006 census shows that the median earnings of full-time Canadian workers increased about $1 per week between 1980 and 2005, from $41,348 to $41,401. At the same time, the incomes of the richest Canadians increased by 16.4 per cent over the same period, while incomes of the poorest fell by 20.6 per cent. The income stagnation and concentration of wealth at the top prove that free trade with the U.S. (1989) and then Mexico through NAFTA (1994) has been only selectively beneficial.

June 10, 2008
Transport ministers from Canada, the United States and Mexico meet in Ottawa and Meech Lake to explore future enhancements to North America's transportation system and shared perspectives on the challenges of infrastructure renewal.

June 17, 2009
Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, addresses the secretive invite-only North American Forum gathering in Washington, D.C.

June 26, 2008
A report from the federal government’s Competition Review Panel, Compete to Win, claims the SPP: has yielded too little progress in improving crossborder flows. Indeed, Canada risks being side-swiped by the preoccupation the U.S. has with its southern border. The most recent SPP Summit confirms that little progress can be expected within a relevant time frame. In this context, the Panel believes that it is imperative to intensify our bilateral effort with the US, focusing on facilitating the flow of goods, services and people across the Canada–US border. If we are forced to choose between trilateral and bilateral efforts, the latter should be chosen.

July 22, 2008
An Angus Reid poll shows that 52 per cent of [Canadian] respondents think their country should do whatever is necessary to renegotiate the terms of the commerce deal, up seven points since March… Conversely, 18 per cent of respondents want Canada to continue to be a member of NAFTA under the current terms, and 11 per cent believe the country should do whatever is necessary to leave the commerce deal.

September 24, 2008
U.S. President Bush meets with leaders and officials from 11 countries in the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, to launch the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas initiative, based on the Security and Prosperity Partnership model.

September 26, 2008
The Council of Canadians releases the results of an Environics poll finding that 61% of Canadians agree with then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama that NAFTA should be renegotiated to include enforceable labour and environmental standards. This was up from 52% support for renegotiation in an Angus Reid poll from July.

February 14, 2009
A week before U.S. President Obama’s first visit to Canada, a coalition of major Canadian organizations sends Prime Minister Stephen Harper a letter urging him to signal Canada’s willingness to renegotiate NAFTA. Among the signatories to the letter are Common Frontiers, the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (Ontario Chapter), OXFAM Canada, the Council of Canadians, Sierra Club of Canada and the Canadian Federation of Students.

February 25, 2009
CCCE President Tom d’Aquino tells the Commons foreign affairs committee that the SPP is probably dead but that something else will inevitably replace the North American dialogue.Why it will be replaced is because the energy, environment, trade, financial regulation, and agriculture, all these things that we do in the form of millions of cross-border transactions everyday are going to have to be co-ordinated, he says.

March 27-28, 2009
A new public-private Standing Committee on North American Prosperity – or NA 2050 – holds its inaugural meeting at the CentroFox in Leon, Mexico. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox and his wife co-host the summit, which is billed as an attempt to fill a perceived vacuum for a North American vision in the wake of the SPP and NAFTA. The group meets for a second time in Atlanta, Georgia from May 11 to 12.

May 26-27, 2009
Following their first border meetings, Napolitano and Van Loan announce they have signed The Shiprider Agreement, which makes permanent a pilot project in which U.S. Homeland Security and RCMP officers staff vessels jointly to skirt jurisdictional issues. The security ministers also agreed to Develop joint threat and risk assessments to assist the two countries in forming a common understanding of the threats and risks we face, and Expand integrated law enforcement operations along our shared border and waterways to prevent criminals and/or terrorists from using the border to evade enforcement or to inflict harm on our two countries.

June 25, 2009
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives announces that its president, Tom d’Aquino, will step down to be replaced by former Liberal deputy prime minister John Manley. A long-time proponent of the SPP and co-author of Building a North American Community, Manley says that as new CCCE president he will build bridges between the corporate sector and government.

July 29, 2009
The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) breaks the news that Health Canada did not assess the human health safety of SmartStax – a new eight-trait genetically modified corn from Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences – before the product was jointly approved for the market in Canada and the United States. The joint approval is proof that SPP-NAFTA regulatory harmonization activities continue at the expense of proper testing and stringent standards.

August 9-10, 2009
Fifth annual North American leaders’ summit takes place in Guadalajara, Mexico amid suggestions U.S. President Obama has dismantled the formal SPP process, though working groups continue.