Secret Canada-US perimeter security plans leaked

he Council of Canadians is demanding that the Harper government immediately release its secret perimeter security deal with the United States, as well as its communications strategy for the deal that names Council chairperson Maude Barlow as a likely critic.

"Canadians have a right to know the security deal Mr. Harper has been secretly negotiating with the United States," says Barlow. "Harmonization, collaboration and information-sharing with the Department of Homeland Security to promote his trade agenda obviously raises sovereignty and privacy concerns."

Media reports suggest that under the perimeter security deal Canada and the US would harmonize rules and practices for screening offshore imports and travellers, and more closely collaborate in the areas of immigration, border protection and law enforcement. It would also involve more information-sharing with US law-enforcement agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security.

"We've gone down this road before -- it was called the Security and Prosperity Partnership -- and North Americans rejected it," says Stuart Trew, trade campaigner with the Council of Canadians.

Though the Security and Prosperity Partnership stalled in 2008, news reports said the Harper government would continue to meet with the Canadian business members of the North American Competitiveness Council. "It appears that yet again Harper is only listening to corporate lobbyists on North American climate, energy, security and economic policy when Canadians clearly oppose this agenda," adds Barlow.

"From the Harper government's hastily passed Anti-Terrorism Act to the controversial 'no-fly' list, harmonization has violated civil liberties while not improving trade between Canada and the United States in the slightest," notes Trew.

The organization is also demanding that opposition parties press the government on this unnecessary and invasive perimeter plan.

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[MtBaker123]

It's clear that the "good old boys" don't just want to control the US & they're not alone, a plan was set many years ago with a specific time line of events and "hand picked" heads of state & country have & are being played like deaf & blind marionettes and "we the people" of all lands, in our despair and our pharmaceutical & street drug induced stupors simply sit back and let our lives, our countries and our planet be manipulated into the biggest slave plantation human existence has ever seen. 

[cwa1984]

@madpuppy1000 You ever thought about replacing your broken record?

[Baseshocks]

I have an idea that will keep both sides happy, you create trade boarder posts that are co-manned by Americans and Canadians for shipping/trade alone to allow it to flow faster, but for average citizen cross boarder procedures they stay the same.

[408Magenta]

You'd better bet your sweat patooti that we are concerned about our sovereignty and the deal we clear with these paranoid americans. These days, when you enter a room with americans and zionists overlords, put one hand on your wallet and the other hand over your crotch.

[408Magenta]

Harper is a Zionist scum liking tool. This man is a danger and he has to go at the very earliest.

[mbonter1]

@cwa1984 .. I doubt it.

[mbonter1]

@cwa1984 No it will lead to exactly what I said it would. While you're at it why don't you search; Obama, Stephen Harper, George Bush, Clinton, Tony Blaire, Gordon Brown, Gorbachev, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller + New World Order speech. These crack pot politicians talk about it all the time. You must be the nut job to not be hearing it.. or are you in denial?

[bodryn]

@Politicimo As an American who doesn't qualify for health care myself, I am well aware that we have overlords - I think the best assessment of who is running our world these days comes from novelist John leCarre, when he mentions that the most money in international banks is coming from unreported organized crime profits, i.e. money laundering. You can google that video and break through the window dressing that passes as news, on to the underlying truth.

[cwa1984]

@mbonter1 I don't have other accounts. You ever consider that maybe...just maybe others agreed with what I stated?

[cwa1984]

@mbonter1 Let me guess the search will lead to some crackpot like Alex Jones ranting about a new world order? I've heard these propaganda spills from conspiracy nutjobs before I'm not in the mood to continue to listen to it. Unless you have a credible academic source, those of a politician still working or retired, ambassador still working or retired, or government official involved in this deal then I'm not go to waste my time listening to a bunch of mindless ranting.

[Girthtax]

Dislike Harper? Watch this?

/watch?v=ceh9_XV_H88