CANADIANS ~ ARE WE FREE?

Since 1968 Canada has progressively lost her sovereignty and become less free. It's the tale of how 4 men, three Liberals and one Conservative, have effectively gutted a country that survived a depression, helped win two world wars and built a successful and vibrant democracy in the process.

REALITY CHECK: CANADA IS NO LONGER A FREE COUNTRY

Canada of today is not the same country millions of Canadians fought and died for in two world wars. That Canada is largely dead. It has been replaced by an imitation created by elitist nihilists who, in addition to benefitting from the corruption and greed that they supported, cared more about street gangs and criminals than they do about their victims. Make no mistake. This is true. They still do. Just listen to what they're saying.

Now these people, even while sitting in opposition, can't come to terms with the mess they've created. I am fed up to the teeth with these hand-wringing, limp-wristed nihilists and their attitudes. I DON'T CARE HOW OUR LAWMAKERS SOLVE THE PROBLEMS THEY CREATED, JUST SOLVE THEM. BUT DON'T TAKE AWAY *MY* RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN THE PROCESS. I am talking to you Mr. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister. I am not a criminal. My heart cries when I think of what your predecessors have done in the last 38 years.

If you have a problem with terrorism, take it up with the terrorists and those counseling violence and hate in our country. DON'T TAKE AWAY MY RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS. If you have a problem with guns in the streets, find and arrest those street gang members and others who are carrying guns in the streets. DON'T TAKE AWAY MY GUNS. I REPEAT. I AM NOT THE CRIMINAL. I AM THE PERSON WHO ELECTED YOU AND WHO YOU SWORE TO SERVE AND PROTECT. I AM A PEACEFUL CITIZEN.

Since 1968 Canada has become a pacifist, socialist country where judges make law instead of elected legislators; where courts are more concerned about criminals than their victims; where foreign companies can sue Canada for enacting laws that are good for Canada and Canadians; where people are encouraged to get on welfare and discouraged from finding work when on it; where the ability to speak two languages has become all one is required to have to qualify for public office and; I could go on...

Our federal government has become a large and intrusive government that has either forgotten what its core functions are, no longer cares, or, worse yet, has become an instrument for others who want to destroy our sovereignty. CANADA, LIKE AMERICA, IS A COUNTRY ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION.

BETRAYED BY ELITIST, NIHILIST, MORALIST PUPPETS

While Progressive Conservative objectives seemed to be to sell out Canada's sovereignty in the interests of North American Free Trade Agreements that were not about free trade at all, Liberal Party objectives seemed intent on destroying individual rights and freedoms via a Charter which was about anything but rights and freedoms. Both were about more control and power over Canadians. Once again, the lies are in the names.

Remaining in power for the Liberals was largely carried out in the name of "keeping Canada together" by fighting the separation movement in Quebec and selling the benefits of the welfare state.

No matter how pure their motives, socialism makes Canada and its citizens less noble people! To that I would add, less free.

After the Conservatives decisively defeated the Grits in 1958, Lester B. Pearson organized a gathering of academics, writers and politicians in Kingston, Ontario in 1960. This gathering, which became known as the Kingston Conference, was what historians generally credit with shaping Liberal Party policy and their socialist agenda for the better part of a generation.

With his election to Prime Minister on April 20, 1968, Pierre Elliot Trudeau's creeping "dictatorship of relativism" succeeded in embedding his pacifist, Marxist-leaning, socialist philosophy into the Constitution and laws of Canada. Western Canadian columnist Link Byfield wrote in a September 2000 Globe and Mail article that "Parliament annoyed Trudeau, so he bulldozed his Charter of Rights into the Constitution (1982) and surrendered statutory supremacy to the court."

"A new biography [Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944] of the former prime minister, whom Canadians have long been taught to regard as a great liberal politician, reveals that as a youth and young man, Mr. Trudeau was an anti-Semite, admired fascist dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini, promoted revolution and longed for an independent and Catholic Quebec that would be home only to francophones." Young Trudeau: Fascist, anti-Semite, and separatist: Robert Sibley, The Ottawa Citizen, May 31, 2006.

Then along came Brian Mulroney, an Anglo Quebecois, who, just so that everything we despise about today's Canada couldn't be blamed on the Liberals, made an alliance with Quebec separatists, or soon-to-be separatists, and patronage and pork continued to flow into Quebec. This was later to be perfected by the Liberals but Mulroney started it.

Then, showing a total misunderstanding or disregard of the rights and freedoms that already existed under the Constitution of 1867 and Common Law, Mulroney tried his best to entrench the Charter further into the fabric of Canada by attempting to convince Quebec to sign on. This of course failed.

BRIAN MULRONEY WAS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, AND LATER THE NORTH AMERICA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, trade deals which gave up significant chunks of Canadian sovereignty and which were opposed by the majority of Canadians ~ and still are.

THEN CAME THE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX. All in all a devastating two terms for people who value individual freedom and less government. Mulroney learned well the policies of secrecy and diversion that were so perfected by the Liberals under Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

After Mulroney was tossed from 24 Sussex Drive Jean Chretien and Paul Martin continued the selloff of Canada. JEAN CHRETIEN signed NAFTA in December, 1993 and, twelve years later, PAUL MARTIN signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America with President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005".

JEAN CHRETIEN AND PAUL MARTIN THEN CONTINUED THE SLIDE INTO SOCIALISM AND DICTATORSHIP THAT TRUDEAU STARTED and, in the opinion of many, added another disturbing element, a climate ripe for organized crime, both homegrown and immigrant. Still not satisfied, they then brought this corruption into the very halls of government.

WHY DID THESE LEADERS, ALL BRILLIANT MEN, DO THESE THINGS?

Why did the Liberal Party choose socialism and dictatorship for Canada that day in Kingston, Ontario in 1960? The answer is simple. They did it for power. They knew what would buy votes. They didn't care about what was good for Canada. They cared only about what they believed would get them back in power and keep them there. And they were right. They created fear of Quebec separation and then said they were the only party that could deal with it. They created the welfare state and then said they were the only party that would continue to dole out the money. Enough people believed them and voted for them, and the people of Canada got what they deserved.

Why did Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien surrender Canada's future and move her one step closer to a North American super-state that has resulted in a total loss of sovereignty for Canada in several key areas? These include energy, natural resources, transportation, currency, immigration, environment, social policy and national defense, to name a few. All areas of policy should be made in Ottawa, right? By lawmakers we vote for, right? Well, not any more under the future that is NAFTA. Why did they do this? Perhaps they really believed what they were doing was right. Perhaps they were doing the bidding of others. Perhaps they were puppets. WHATEVAH!! Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien sold Canada out and the result will soon be total foreign ownership and multinational corporate control of everything we thought was ours. Take a good look around. Everything you see is now owned or controlled by foreign interests or soon will be.

CANADA'S POLITICIANS HAVE BEEN BOUGHT OFF AND ARE NOW FIRMLY IN THE POCKETS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE WHOSE SOLE OBJECTIVE IS TO TAKE OVER CANADA AND DESTROY CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF HER CITIZENS. UNLESS CANADIANS RISE UP AND STOP THIS, THE RESULT WILL BE ENSLAVEMENT WITHIN A POLICE STATE EXISTENCE FOR US ALL.

IS STEVEN HARPER CONTINUING THE SELLOFF OF CANADA?

Alas, Steven Harper is committed to this selloff of Canada. I knew, when there were no other Liberals in the house, the day I saw a photo of Harper with Bilderberg he would be our next PM and knew even then how dismal his rule would be. So far Harper has exceeded my expectations. Steven Harper is continuing this devastation of a once proud country.

At the Summit of the Americas in Cancun on March 31, 2006, Stephen Harper, along with the US and Mexico, released the Leaders' Joint Statement. The statement presents six action points to insure that the North American Union be in place by 2007. These action points include:

Establishment of a Trilateral Regulatory Cooperative Framework

Establishment of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC)

Provision for North American Emergency Management

Provision for Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza Management

Development of North American Energy Security Assure Smart, Secure Borders

Let's examine what they did.

CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is smoke and mirrors. I challenge anyone to identify one single right or freedom desired by the majority of Canadians that the Charter offers that we did not already have under the existing Constitution Act of 1867 or under Common Law. The Charter was crafted in secret by lawyers, for lawyers, with the specific objective of empowering courts and Cabinet to create laws in secret outside of Parliament. Once again, the lie is in the name. It has nothing to do with individual rights and freedoms. It has everything to do with power and control.

THE DECLINE OF PARLIAMENT AND LEGISLATIVE SUPREMACY

The primary problem of the Charter has not been the empowerment of judicial supremacy, but the further decline of Parliament and provincial legislatures as policy makers at the hands of the political executive in Ottawa. If this statement is correct then it is further proof that the judiciary can be influenced by the political executive which means, of course, that they are doing the implementing of change for the cabinet. If this is indeed true than it is even worse than an activist court. It is closer to a dictatorship wouldn't you say?

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was social engineering by a combination of force and finesse and they enabled the courts to do the dirty work for them.

THE CHARTER AS SEEN BY THE COURTS

When the court finds itself in uncharted charter waters, its role is not to start thinking creatively, but rather, to refer the matter back to Parliament. In not doing so they're violating, essentially, the separation of powers. In myriad ways, the Supreme Court has used the charter to change government policy on an ever-expanding list of controversial issues ~ abortion, aboriginal rights, gay rights, bilingualism, criminal law enforcement and prisoner-voting.

The definition of fraud is: "something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage." The Charter of Rights and Freedoms must either be abolished or reformed and put under the oversight of Parliament and away from Cabinet. In addition, each and every Supreme Court of Canada ruling that was based on interpretations of the Charter, in areas where no law existed, must be reviewed and debated in the Legislature. PARLIAMENT MUST RETURN TO MAKING THE LAWS OF CANADA IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF FULL AND TRANSPARENT DEBATE.

"ONCE THE JUDGES MAKE THE LAW, THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IS AT AN END." ~ ROBERT BORK

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA JUDGES ARE POLITICAL APPOINTEES AND ARE NOT ANSWERABLE TO THE ELECTORATE. THEY ARE NOT EVEN APPOINTED BY PARLIAMENT WHERE EACH APPOINTMENT COULD BE DEBATED. THEY ARE APPOINTED BY THE PRIME MINISTER. ALLOWING COURTS THE POWER TO MAKE LAW IS IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE INTENT OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT OF 1867.

THE FTA AND NAFTA AND SOON NAU

The World Trade Organization is the most powerful legislative and judicial body in the world. By promoting the "free trade" agenda of multinational corporations above the interests of participating countries the WTO has systematically undermined sovereignty around the world. They have orchestrated the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, the North America Free Trade Agreement and are today working on the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. This will effectively put all of North and South America under the direct control of the WTO and the large multinational corporations.

The FTA and NAFTA etc set enforceable global rules on patents, copyrights and trademark. It has gone far beyond its initial scope of protecting original inventions or cultural products and now permits the practice of patenting plants and animal forms as well as seeds. It promotes the private rights of corporations over local communities and their genetic heritage and traditional medicines

As an indication of how bad NAFTA is, consider this: In signing into NAFTA Mulroney agreed to a chapter 11 resolution settlement clause which effectively GAVE FOREIGN CORPORATIONS THE RIGHT TO SUE THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT FOR ANY LOST PROFIT AND ANY FUTURE LOST PROFIT AS A RESULT OF ANY GOVERNMENT ACTION, EVEN IF THE CORPORATION WAS ACTING ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT ACTION WAS TO PROTECT CANADIANS.

A FEW FTA AND NAFTA CHAPTER 11 EXAMPLES

Under Chapter 11, the Ethyl Corporation, an American gasoline additive company, successfully sued the Canadian federal government when it banned MMT in gasoline, even though the additive is illegal in the USA. Canada could not afford the $250 million lawsuit and so caved in and allowed the additive in Canadian gasoline and paid up $13 million for the short time the ban was in effect. To add insult to injury, the settlement required two cabinet ministers to go on TV and lie to the Canadian people that MMT was considered completely safe.

One of the Canadian negotiators of the free trade agreement said that even if a company were putting plutonium in children's food, the company could still sue for lost profit if they were required to stop. Foreign corporations are insured from economic risk, unlike domestic corporations, no matter how irresponsibly they behave. Not only are governments required to compensate them for lost profits, but also for all lost profits indefinitely into the future. Ironically, the worse the foreign corporations behave the more they can extort from governments under Chapter 11.

WHAT THIS ALL MEANS

The FTA and NAFTA were bad enough. But, under the Council on Foreign Relations plan expressed in May 2005 for building NAFTA into a North American Union, the stakes were about to get even higher. A task force report titled "Building a North American Community" was written to provide a blueprint for the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America agreement" signed by President Bush, President Fox and Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. This, as we all know by now after this summer’s Montebello summit, is the master plan to connect Canada, America and Mexico into a borderless North American free trade zone.

This simply must not be allowed to proceed. CANADA MUST DEMAND THAT THE FTA AND NAFTA BE RE-NEGOTIATED UNDER AN ATMOSPHERE OF TRANSPARENT DEBATE VISIBLE TO ALL CANADIANS. Chapter 11 and several other key objectives must be either radically altered or deleted from both agreements. Canada must also back out of any future participation in the NAU

The thing about Chapter 11 is that it can work both ways, but only to the advantage of multinational corporations. If local companies can't compete against foreign corporations locally then why sell locally? If you live in Canada it may be best to sell into the US or Mexico. If their governments stop you from doing so then sue them. The lawyers love it of course. We now have lawyers who specialize in Chapter 11 lawsuits. We will probably be seeing Chartered Accountants and International Business Consultants springing up with specialties like setting up business plans to take advantage of the opportunity to sue a foreign government under Chapter 11. Why work for your money when you can sue?

It may indeed work both ways, but it's not good for local, small businesses when they have to compete with large multinational corporations selling the same products up the street for less than they can buy or produce them. Small businesses that sell locally are at a definite disadvantage under the FTA and NAFTA.

THE FTA AND NAFTA MUST BE RE-NEGOTIATED THE PROVINCES DID NOT SIGN INTO THESE AGREEMENTS. THE PEOPLE OF CANADA DID NOT AGREE TO THEM. They were negotiated in secret by Brian Mulroney, with the help of government bureaucrats and their lawyers in Ottawa. THE FTA, NAFTA AND FTAA MUST BE BROUGHT TO THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT AND REVIEWED IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF FULL AND TRANSPARENT DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATURE. THE CONSTITUTION ACT OF 1867 DEMANDS THIS.

DISARMING CANADIANS, THE LONG GUN REGISTRY FIASCO AND FRAUD

The CPC announced there currently an "amnesty" where firearms owners who had not registered their guns had one year where they could do so without criminal charges being laid. The CPC are still keeping the old registry's requirement to report every transaction with a long gun ~ sell, buy, borrow, lend.

So, when the CPC said they were fulfilling their promise to scrap Bill C-21 they were simply lying. Why are they doing this? Why not keep their promise and abolish it? The reason is crystal clear. The original intent of Bill C-21 was never to reduce crime or gun deaths in Canada as the Liberals told us it was. The reason for Bill C-21 was expressly to disarm the Canadian population and give the police and government a list of all guns that are in the hands of Canadians. Then, at some later date, it would be easy to simply walk into anyone's home that was on the list and confiscate the legally-registered guns.

Do not believe the propaganda about what Bill C-21 has cost Canadians. The figures of $1 billion to $2 billion are ridiculously low. The Attorney General's estimate cost, as most know, was about $1 billion. But according to a study done by the Fraser Institute the real cost is:

• The Department of Justice costs were about $1 billion.
• The cost of all co-operating departments, Agencies, Provinces and Territories was about $1.5 billion.
• Gun owners have paid more than $.55 billion.
• Cost of enforcement $1 billion. And it is unknown how much it will cost to complete owner licensing and firearm registration.
• Cost by RCMP of registering 17 million firearms as projected by the CPC when they went to the RCMP and got the "per transaction" processing cost of a single handgun registration, which turned out to be about $3.7 billion in 2004 dollars.
• Reference PDF slide show: Fraser-Institute22104.ppt.pdf

Total cost estimated by the Fraser Institute as of 2004 was over $7.75 billion.

Since Bill-C21 we have more unreliable/false/incomplete data on guns and owners in the federal database at a cost of 7.75 billion dollars than we did prior to 1995. According to a person who wrote some of the CPC agenda to scrap Bill C-21 here's a brief rundown:

• There are more owners and guns 'outside' the control system than prior to 1995.
• There are more guns unaccounted for than prior to 1995.
• There is less enforcement of firearms control laws than prior to 1995.
• Fewer people are applying for permits than prior to 1995.
• More guns trade hands without federal notice than prior to 1995.
• Firearms systems cost 1000% more for effectively suspended regulatory enforcement compared to pre 1995.
• A federal authorization to buy firearms has less scrutiny (in functional application) than it did before 1995.
• There were more prosecutions of criminals who used firearms in a crime and more sentencing time added for using a gun than prior to 1995.

So, if anyone tells you that Bill C-21 is a good law you can tell them they're showing their ignorance, and perhaps they should educate themselves and not believe all the hype from the gun-control crowd. They have an agenda that does not have your best interests at heart.

Think not? Then you haven't read the history books. Perhaps you should. Start with Mein Kampf and the history of Nazi Germany. The globalist elites who are behind the North American Union are the same families and individuals who helped put Hitler in power. They are trying very hard to wrest all guns from the hands of American citizens as well ~ and not succeeding too well.

Prior to 1995 there was a requisite police background check attached to the 10 dollar FAC which you required to buy a long gun and a sporting long gun for the first time. But you did not have to apply to some bureaucrat sitting behind a desk who knew less than half what most people probably knew about firearm safety and operation. You simply made your request in person at your local RCMP office.

GRAFT AND CORRUPTION MADE IN CANADA

There are FAR TOO MANY examples of Liberal Party corruption over the years. Some recent ones of course are the sponsorship scandal, income trust leak, Kyoto Protocol and Industry Canada/National Research Council grants. There is also the long-gun registry. Two short quotes about the long-gun registry by the National Post pretty well sum up the legacy of the Liberal Party of Canada since 1968.

"The former Liberal government hid more than $60 million in unexpected costs from Parliament, left no written record of important decisions taken by officials, and may have broken numerous contracting rules in its handling of the controversial gun registry, Auditor General Sheila Fraser has found." Death knell for gun registry? - National Post May 16, 2006

"There is no way to deny or minimize the stark reality of what it [the firearms registry] contains: Liberal cabinet ministers colluded in a scheme of deception ~ fraud is another word ~ to hide the mounting costs of the gun registry. They did so, what is more, not to avoid mere embarrassment or criticism, but to defy the will of Parliament. The firearms registry was a deliberate act of deception, a calculated defiance of Parliament, and a fraud upon the public." Why should we ever trust the Liberals again? National Post, May 17, 2006

"If this was about drugs, it would be called money laundering. Don't you agree? Am I mistaken?" Mr. Justice John Gomery to former Chretien aide Jean Carle. "Gomery's reference to money laundering is particularly poignant when one considers the Minister responsible for the program, Alfonso Gagliano, was the former accountant to Augustino Cuntrera, the de facto head of the Caruana/Cuntrera mafia family." Prime Time Crime, Gomery appointment raises conflict questions, Nov. 11, 2005

WE ARE NOW A COUNTRY MADE FOR ORGANIZED CRIME, STREET GANGS AND TERRORISTS

Weak immigration laws and strong refugee protection laws established under the Charter have proven irresistible to criminals and terrorists alike. This is the quiet powder keg that needs to be fixed, soon, before it explodes.

If organized criminals were asked to invent a country, it would look exactly like Canada. The current climate legally in Canada allows us to pretty much do whatever we want. Criminals have free rein in Canada. There's no doubt about it. This is the most awesome place on earth. If you want to run your criminal organization on a global scale, Canada is just perfect. You've got huge borders and you've got lax laws and you've got a cross section of people from all around the world and they are all congregating in Vancouver and Toronto.

International terrorists and terrorist organizations also love Canada. "Terrorists have exploited the "liberal Canadian immigration and asylum policies to enjoy safe haven, raise funds, arrange logistical support and plan terrorist attacks. A good measure of a society is it's handling of organized crime. The succeeding terms of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin and not STEVEN HARPER have almost succeeded in changing Canada into the G7s first Third World kleptocracy."

kleptocrat nation (klep te krat na shen), n. 1. A body of people ruled by thieves. 2. A government characterized by the practice of transferring money and power from the many to the few. 3. A ruling class of moneyed elites that usurps liberty, justice, sovereignty, and other democratic rights from the people. 4. The USA today.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

TALK TO YOUR FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL ELECTIVES. WRITE LETTERS. ENOUGH LETTERS AND EDITORS HAVE TO START TO LISTEN TO THE READERS.

JUST DON'T SIT AROUND AND BE APATHETIC. THAT HAS WHAT HAS GOTTEN US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. YEARS AGO, TRUDEAU AND MULONEY BOTH WERE VERY IN FAVOUR OF MASS MIND CONTROL IN CANADA AND SO IT IS TODAY. WAKE UP AND TAKE PEACEFUL ACTION!

JOIN THE COUNCIL OF CANADIANS.

JOIN WORD WARRIORS.

If you are a social or political activist, you have heard the declaration a hundred times: the media is terrible – how can we win with such a biased media? The problem is that everyone complains about the media but few do anything about it. Word Warriors is designed to help you quit complaining and start acting.

As biased as they are, newspapers are still privately owned public institutions. We must, if we are serious, take advantage where we can. And one place is the letters to the editor pages – the one egalitarian part of the newspaper to which ordinary people have some access.

Letters to the editor are important political tools for two very practical reasons. First, the majority of Canadians share progressive social values, yet most feel they are alone when they read newspapers and watch TV. If people see their values expressed in letters to the editor their values are reinforced – their gut sense that things are terribly wrong is given a voice. People’s values start to become part of a collective consciousness.

Secondly, many if not most reporters are actually on the centre or left of the political spectrum. In many cases, they are simply not permitted to cover the issues they want to write about. Often the story ideas of reporters are rejected with the claim that “No one cares about [poverty] [P3s] [private health care]...” By writing letters about these issues we give reporters the evidence they need to convince their editors that these stories are important.

Word Warriors is a collective letter writing project whereby I send out periodic suggestions for letters to the editor along with data and analysis, and you use these to write letters to your local paper. If there are enough of us writing enough letters we can help change the political landscape.

Welcome to the world of acting – not complaining.

CANADIANS RULE!!!~ AMAZING NEWS!!!

Joan Bryden
Canadian press

OTTAWA – The Mounties and Quebec provincial police deny using agents provocateurs at this week's Montebello summit, despite video evidence that suggests undercover cops tried to incite violence.

The denials Wednesday did nothing to quell mounting outrage over police tactics. Anti-globalization and union activists joined with opposition politicians to demand an independent investigation.

They also questioned whether police were acting on orders from the Prime Minister's Office and called on both Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Jean Charest to denounce the use of agents provocateurs.

"In a free and democratic society, people have the right to peacefully protest something they don't like," said union leader Dave Coles, who confronted the alleged undercover officers outside the summit site Monday.

"Are Canadian citizens going to have to face these kinds of provocateurs just because Stephen Harper seems to think we're some sort of loony-left group?

"Quite frankly, that's insulting and we don't accept it and we want answers from him."

The three alleged provocateurs were caught on camera (view YouTube video) – with bandanas masking their faces and at least one carrying a rock in his hand – approaching a line of Surete du Quebec police in full riot garb. They refused to back away, despite the insistence of Coles and other protest organizers that they leave the area.

As protesters surrounded the men and tried to snatch off their masks, one of the three spoke to an SQ officer. The trio got through the police line, were forced to the ground and handcuffed.

Photos of the men lying on the ground show the three were wearing combat boots with identical markings to the ones worn by an SQ officer kneeling beside them.

Video also shows the three eventually being led quietly away to police vans. By contrast, Coles said four legitimate protesters – whom police say were the only people arrested and charged at the summit – were "roughed up pretty good and dragged away."

A spokesman for Harper denied any role by the prime minister in the fair, saying "the PMO is not involved in security for events." Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day's office referred all questions to the RCMP.

The Mounties and the SQ, the two police forces involved in summit security, continued to refuse specific comment on three alleged undercover officers caught on camera in an apparent bid to incite a confrontation.

But they denied using agents to provoke violence.

"I confirm (to) you that there are no agents provocateurs in the Surete du Quebec. . . It doesn't exist in the Surete du Quebec," said Const. Melanie Larouche.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Luc Bessette said the Mounties do "not use tactics that would encourage confrontation or incite violence."

Bessette said the RCMP cannot discuss details of security measures for major events such as the summit because "to do so could jeopardize the integrity of our operations for future events."

Liberal justice critic Marlene Jennings said the evidence is ``quite incriminating" and called on the two police forces to ``clear this up." She said it's one thing for officers to pose as protesters in a bid to keep an eye on potential trouble-makers, ``but to be instigators is completely unacceptable."

Jennings suggested protest organizers may want to file a complaint with the two forces. Coles said his union has not done so yet but is seeking legal advice.

And then there are the planted news articles.

New Democrat MP Libby Davies, who participated in the summit demonstrations, said the video evidence raises "hugely serious questions" about the role of the police at contentious international meetings.

"It seems like they create this environment, a show of force, that sets it up for a confrontation," she said.

"I think we need to know who authorized this, how high up does this go?"

Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, speculated on two possible motives for the police to try to incite a riot at the summit, where Harper, U.S. President George Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon were discussing the Security and Prosperity Partnership between their three countries.

He said police may have wanted to justify the millions spent on security for the summit by creating an incident they could quell. But he said there may also have been a political motive to discredit the protesters as violent radicals, thereby deflecting attention from the substance of their opposition to the SPP.

"This is the face of (the SPP), where people can't even ask a question without having to face these kinds of goons. It's time that all the secrecy and backroom deals end," said Coles.

"The SPP is a fraud, just like those three so-called activists were."

The first film is the event as captured by one of the protesters. The second is the event as reported by a Canadian reporter.

CANADIANS ~ KEEP THE PEACE

DO NOT PROVOKE THEM THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT VIOLENCE JUSTIFIES THEIR ACTIONS PLEASE KEEP TO THE PEACE BUT WE KNOW THIS IS NOT AN OPTION AGENT PROVOCATEURS WILL LIGHT THE SPARK WHICH WILL SET THE VIOLENCE Arrested protester predicts police 'aggression' at Bush-Harper-Calderon summit
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One of two men charged at a weekend protest in Ottawa says he expects much more "police aggression" at the North American Leaders Summit next week in Montebello, Que. "I think this is just a taste of the police aggression that people who go to Montebello might be facing," Dan Sawyer, who helped organize the protest, told CBC News on Monday.

Arrested protester predicts police 'aggression' at Bush-Harper-Calderon summit

Last Updated: Monday, August 13, 2007 | 4:15 PM ET
CBC News

One of two men charged at a weekend protest in Ottawa says he expects much more "police aggression" at the North American Leaders Summit next week in Montebello, Que.

"I think this is just a taste of the police aggression that people who go to Montebello might be facing," Dan Sawyer, who helped organize the protest, told CBC News on Monday.

Sawyer, 32, and Matthew Morgan-Brown, 31, were arrested and charged with assaulting police after a demonstration by an estimated 50 to 80 people outside the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel on Saturday.

The protest was against the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership pact, which will be discussed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the summit in Quebec on Aug. 20 and 21.

The agreement was signed between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in 2005 to boost co-operation on security, trade and public-health issues, but opponents of the pact fear it will erode Canadian sovereignty in areas such as natural resources, security and military issues.

Protesters 'confrontational and aggressive': police

The Ottawa police said in a news release that the arrests took place because several of the protesters were "confrontational and aggressive."

Ottawa Police Const. Alain Boucher said Sawyer was arrested after an officer tried to stop some graffiti from happening and Sawyer allegedly intervened, ending up in an altercation with the officer. Boucher said he did not know the circumstances of Morgan-Brown's arrest.

But Sawyer said police approached him and about seven others after the protest ended.

"At the time of my arrest, all I was doing was walking home," he said Monday, adding that he has not been told the time or other details of his alleged assault on a police officer.

Sidewalk chalk crackdown was 'overkill': Sawyer

Sawyer said the arrests are not the only action police took Saturday at the protest outside the hotel, which was chosen because it is part of the same chain as the Fairmont Château Montebello where the summit will take place.

"What I saw was police charging the crowd, tackling people, grabbing other individuals, pulling them off to the side, threatening to make arrests, threatening with pepper spray," said Sawyer, who added that police seemed to be responding to protesters who wrote on the sidewalk with chalk.

"Which to me seems definite overkill by the police.… It's just chalk."
Police trying to crack down on organizers: Sawyer

Sawyer accused the police of making the arrests to try to quell dissent by cracking down on protest organizers, arguing that the conditions of his bail were proof.

Both men were released Sunday after agreeing to abide by a list of conditions, which include engaging in good behaviour, keeping the peace and not going within 500 metres of several sites that include the Fairmont Château Laurier and the U.S. Embassy. In Morgan-Brown's case, they ban him from associating with Sawyer.

Sawyer said he plans to appeal conditions that:

* Ban him from the area bounded by Rideau Street, Sussex Drive, the Rideau River and the Ottawa River, an area where he says none of the demonstration took place.
* Prohibit him from participating in or attending any demonstration against the SPP.

"I think that points directly to the reason for the arrests, in that they're trying to get organizers … out of play," said Sawyer, who said the conditions violate his Charter rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

"I really hope that doesn't dissuade people because SPP needs to be opposed."
Police shoved protesters. CBC footage from Saturday showed protesters chanting "So-so-so-solidarité!" as one man was handcuffed and put in a police car.

Fellow protester Shannon Willmott identified the man as Sawyer.

Afterward, the footage shows a male officer approaching some of the other protesters, shoving two of them, then chasing and arresting a protester who shoved back. That man was Morgan-Brown, Willmott said.

As the men were questioned inside a police station, other protesters such as Denis Rancourt stood outside demanding answers about why the men were arrested.

"I think it's a procedure for discouraging organizers [of protests], for intimidating," he told CBC's French-language service Radio-Canada. "I think they're techniques of a police state."

Police have already said they will have a large presence at protests at the summit in Montebello to maintain peace and order.

CANADIANS ~ MEET THE SPP PLAYERS

MY FELLOW PATRIOTS, ALLOW ME TO PLEASE INTRODUCE YOU TO THE BUSINESS MEMBERS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL!

The North American Competitiveness Council, part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, was established by the American, Canadian and Mexican governments at the June 2006 trilateral meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

Comprised of 30 senior private sector representatives, 10 from each country (though there are 13 U.S. members), the council is mandated to provide governments with recommendations on issues including border regulation and competitiveness in the automotive, transportation, manufacturing and services sectors.

The council is expected to meet annually with security and prosperity ministers and will engage with senior government officials on an ongoing basis. They last met in February 2007 in Ottawa and are meeting this weekend at Montebello Chateau in Quebec under their usual secrecy.

BUT HERE IS A BRIEF LIST OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, TRAITORS TO US ALL!

LET'S GIVE THEM ALL A REALLY FRIENDLY CANADIAN RECEPTION!!!

CANADIAN MEMBERS

Dominic D'Alessandro, Manulife Financial ~ Italian-born chartered accountant has been Manulife Financial's president since 1994. Mr. D'Alessandro is a vice chairman of the board of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and a director of the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association. He also co-chairs the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council.

Paul Desmarais, Jr., Power Corporation of Canada ~ In 1984, appointed vice-chairman of Power Financial Corporation, a company he helped set up, becoming chairman of the board in 1990 and chairman of the executive committee in May 2005. He was appointed chairman of the board and co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada in 1996.

David Ganong, Ganong Bros. Ltd. ~ Director of Ganong Bros. since 1977, director of Canadian Council of Chief Executive Officers, and chairman on the University of New Brunswick's board of governors. He is also director of Sun Life Financial, director of the Conference Board of Canada, chairman of the New Brunswick Business Council.

Richard George, Suncor Energy Inc. ~ Originally from Colorado, Mr. George spent 10 years with Sun Company in the U.S. and the UK. Appointed Suncor's president and CEO in 1991. Took Canadian citizenship in 1996. Honourary chair of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and a member of the board of directors of the U.S. offshore and onshore drilling company, Global SantaFe Corporation.

E. Hunter Harrison, CN ~ President and CEO of CN since 2003. Former president and CEO of the Illinois Central Corporation and the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Member of Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Authored the book, How We Work and Why in 2005. Born in Tennessee.

Linda Hasenfratz, Linamar Corporation (NACC chairperson) ~ Ms. Hasenfratz joined Linamar Corporation in 1990 and held many positions, including director, president and chief operating officer. Named CEO in August 2002. Holds an Executive MBA from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Also sits on the board of directors for CIBC and the Royal Ontario Museum.

Michael Sabia, Bell Canada Enterprises ~ President and CEO of BCE, and CEO of Bell Canada, Mr. Sabia has held these same positions and others in both companies as well as Bell Canada International Inc. since 1999. He's also board chairman of Bell Aliant Regional Communications, as well as director of the Thomson Corporation. Previously worked with the CN Railway, the federal Department of Finance and the Privy Council Office.

Jim Shepherd, Canfor Corporation ~ Appointed Canfor Corporation's president and CEO in April 2004, Mr. Shepherd quit his post on March 30. Mr. Shepherd has worked in Ontario and B.C.'s forestry industries for over 25 years, including as Slocan Forest Products's president in 1999. He sits on a number of boards including the Vancouver Board of Trade and the Asia Pacific Trade Council.

Annette Verschuren, The Home Depot ~ Former president and co-owner of arts and crafts chain Michael's of Canada, Ms. Verschuren joined Home Depot in 1996, and is president of Canadian operations. She sits on the boards of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and Habitat for Humanity, and is chancellor to University College of Cape Breton.

Rick Waugh, Scotiabank ~ Appointed president and CEO in 2003, Mr. Waugh has been with Scotiabank since 1970, serving in investment, corporate, international and retail banking areas. He also serves on the board of the Institute for International Finance, is a member of the Chairman's Advisory Council for the Council of the Americas, and the IMF's Capital Markets Consultative Group.

MEXICAN MEMBERS

José Luís Barraza Gonzalez, Consejo Coordinador Empresarial ~ Over 22 years' experience in international commerce, promotion and industrial development. President of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (Enterprise Coordinating Council) since 2004, and of the Council of Administration of Companies. Mr. Barraza is also CEO of Grupo Impulso, Realiza & Asociados, Inmobiliaria Realiza and Optima. He previously served as vice-president for the promotion of economic development in the state of Chihuahua.

Gastón Azcárraga Andrade, Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios ~ President of Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios, a group of Mexico's leading industrialists, and CEO of Mexicana de Aviaci√≥n and Grupo Posadas. In 1989 became CEO of Grupo Posadas, a leading hotel operator in Latin America founded by his father. He is also a member of the board of directors of and is an ING Mexico and Holcim-Apascoadvisor to the National Tourism Council.

César de Anda Molina, president and CEO of Avicar de Occidente ~ Mr. Anda Molina has been involved with Mexico's poultry and farming industry in a variety of capacities, including as president of the National Union of Poultry Producers and vice-president of International Relations of the Farming National Council. (No Photo available)

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Valentín Díez Morodo, Consejo Mexicano de Comercio Exterior ~ As well as being president of the Consejo Mexicano de Comercio Exterior (Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology), Mr. Diez is a member of the Mexican Business Council, president of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness and board president of Iberoamericana University. He sits on a number of boards of directors including Grupo Financiero Banamex, Mexichem and Kimberly Clark de México.

Jaime Yesaki Cavazos, Consejo Nacional Agropecuario ~ Mr. Yesaki is director of the Consejo Nacional Agropecuario (National Agriculture and Livestock Council), the principal agri-business federation in Mexico. He is also the CEO of several poultry companies.

Claudio X. González, Centro de Estudios Económicos del Sector Privado ~ In addition to being president of the Centro de Estudios Económicos del Sector Privado (Center of Economic Studies of the Private Sector), Mr. Gonzalez is also a director of Kellogg Company, The Mexico Fund, Inc., Banco Nacional de Mexico, Grupo Televisa and Telefonos de Mexico, among others. He is has also been board chairman and CEO of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico since 1973.

Guillermo Vogel, vice-president of (Tubos de Acero de México) ~ Mr. Vogel joined TAMSA in 1983 and has been vice chairman since 1997. He is also vice chairman of the American Iron and Steel Institute, vice-chairman of the board of Tenaris and chairman of the North American Steel Council. He is also a board director of Amazonia, Instituto Latinoamericano del Fierro y el Acero, Citibank-Banamex and HSBC Bank Mexico. (No photo available)

Leon Halkin, Confederación de Cámaras Industriales (CONCAMIN) ~ Mr. Halkin was president of the Confederación de Cámaras Industriales (Mexican Federation of Industrial Chambers) until October 2006. He is also chairman of the board and CEO of four companies in the industrial and real estate markets.

Tomás González Sada, president and CEO of Grupo CYDSA ~ Took over as chairman, president and CEO of Grupo Cydsa, a textiles manufacturing firm, in 1994. Involved in a sister enterprise, Vitro Corporativo S.A. de C.V. Mr. Gonzalez Sada is also chairman of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.




Alfredo Moisés Ceja, president of Finca Montegrande ~ Asides from being president of the winery Finca Montegrande, Mr. Moises Ceja is president of the council of the Mexican Association of Coffee Exporters and is vice president of international commerce on Mexico's National Agricultural Council. (No photo available)

U.S. MEMBERS

Lou Schorsch, Mittal Steel USA ~ Named Mittal Steel USA's CEO in 2006 after serving for a year as CEO in 2005. Dr. Schorsch previously served as CEO of Ispat Inland and has over 26 years of experience in consulting and management in the steel industry, as well as the e-commerce sector. He is the co-author of the book Steel: Upheaval in a Basic Industry.

Joseph Gilmour, New York Life ~ Promoted to chief executive of New York Life International in 2006. Served as executive vice president and chief financial officer there since 2003. Worked for 25 years with Canada Life, including role as senior vice president of the international and reinsurance Division. Mr. Gilmour is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries.

Rick Wagoner, General Motors ~ Elected in 2003. He had been GM's chairman and chief executive officerpresident and CEO since 2000. Began career with GM in 1977 and has worked for the firm in Canada, Brazil and Switzerland. Mr. Wagoner is a member of the boards of trustees of Duke University, the Board of Dean's Advisors of the Harvard Business School, and the Board of Directors of Catalyst. He is chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

William Clay Ford Jr., Ford ~ Director since 1988, chairman of the board of directors since 2001 and executive chairman since 2006 of the Ford Motor Company. Mr. Ford has held a number of management positions within Ford. He also is vice chairman of the Detroit Lions, Inc. and chairman of the Detroit Economic Club.

Raymond Gilmartin, Merck ~ Mr. Gilmartin left his role as chairman, president and CEO of pharmaceutical firm Merck in 2005, joining the Harvard Business School's MBA program in 2006, his alma mater. He joined Merck in 1994. He sits on the boards of Microsoft and General Mills Inc. Mr. Gilmartin has been involved in global economic and trade issues that concern the pharmaceutical industry.

David J. O'Reilly, Chevron ~ Born in Ireland, Mr. O'Reilly joined Chevron in 1968 and was elected chairman and CEO in 2000. Mr. O'Reilly is a committee director at the American Petroleum Institute and a director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum's International Business Council, the JPMorgan International Council, the American Society of Corporate Executives and the Trilateral Commission.

Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric ~ Mr. Immelt has been the General Electric Company's CEO since 2001, the latest senior position he's held since joining the corporation in 1982. He has been president since 2000. Mr. Immelt also serves as a director of Catalyst, Robin Hood and The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

H. Lee Scott, Wal-Mart ~ President and CEO since January 2000. Joined Wal-Mart in 1979 and rose through the ranks of the company's logistics operations, including as director of transportation. Mr. Scott also serves on the board of directors for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Mr. Scott is usually accompanied by his evil twins, below.

Robert Stevens, Lockheed Martin ~ Former director of Monsanto Company, he joined Lockheed Martin Corporation in the 1990s and held many senior positions until being appointed the firm's chairman, president and chief executive officer in 2005.

Michael Haverty, Kansas City Southern ~ President and CEO of Kansas City Southern, a transportation holding company that has railroad investments in the United States, Mexico and Panama, since 2000. He is also board chairman and CEO of Kansas City Southern De Mexico. No photo available.

Douglas R. Conant, Campbell's Soup ~ Has been Campbell Soup Company's president, CEO and director since 2001. Over 25 years experience in the food industry, notably with General Mills, Inc., Phillip Morris Companies, Inc. (Kraft), and Nabisco, where he served as president from 1995-2000. Mr. Conant is also a director of Applebee's International, Inc. and a vice-chairman and trustee of The Conference Board.

James M. Kilts, Gillette ~ Retired as Gillette Company CEO in 2005 after helping merge the firm with Procter & Gamble in 2004. Former president and CEO of Nabisco, Kraft Foods, and Altria. Mr. Kilts is a member of the board of directors of The New York Times, the Metropolitan Life Insurance, MeadWestvaco and serves as a member of Citigroup's International Advisory Board.

Herman Cain, Whirlpool ~ A director of Whirlpool Corp. since 1992 and is a member of the board of directors. Mr. Cain is also the CEO and president of THE New Voice, Inc., a business and leadership consulting company. Formerly with The Pillsbury Company, the U.S. Navy and Coca-Cola, Mr. Cain also serves on the boards of AGCO, Inc., Aquila, Inc., Reader's Digest and Hallmark Cards, and is a member of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform.

I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU ABOUT THE ARRIVAL OF THESE, ER, ESTEEMED GUESTS OF OUR DEAR MR. HARPER FOR AWHILE NOW.

NOW YOU SEE THEIR PRETTY FACES.

GIVE THEM A GREAT BIG WELCOME WHEN YOU SEE THEM AT MONTEBELLO THIS WEEKEND WHEN THEY SIT TO CONTINUE THEIR INSIDIOUS "WORK"!

STOP THE SPP EVENTS

Council of Canadians to mobilize in Ottawa, Montebello and across the

country from August 19-20, 2007

700-170 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON, K1P 5V5 CA;

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