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December 13, 2007 More proof that the Montebello Summit alienated more people than it endeared to the Security and Prosperity Partnership comes from a new survey done by the North American Forum on Integration. NAFI is "a non-profit organization devoted to developing North American dialogue and networks," according to its website. "Since its creation in 2002, NAFI has brought together important decision-makers from political, private, labor and academic sectors from Canada, the United States and Mexico in order to discuss economic and political issues raised by North American integration." The group, which organizes yearly North American Model Parliament sessions called Triumvirate, consulted with 200 Canadians, Mexicans and Americans after Montebello, 95 per cent of whom, "believe that large firms should not have been the only ones consulted during the North American Summit." Among the results of NAFI's survey:
"The respondents are predominately professionals, government officials, academia and students of the three North American countries," writes NAFI, which concludes in a statement that, "Inviting private companies to share their points of view regarding North America’s competitiveness is in itself legitimate only if they are not the sole external actors to submit suggestions and reports," and that, "major companies regard prosperity in terms of their stockholders and executives’ success." Click here to read NAFI's statement on Montebello, "What kind of prosperity lies beyond the closed doors? Why only request major companies’ opinions?"
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