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Questions about military cooperation pact with U.S. still unanswered May 8, 2008 Since the story broke this February that the Canadian Forces had signed a troop-sharing agreement with the U.S. army for cross-border disasters and other incidents, Canadians have been asking questions of the government but getting little information in response. (more...) “Plan Mexico” counter-productive and militaristic, says new report tying it to the SPP May 6, 2008 While Canada has its own bad security deals with the United States – joint no-fly lists, common biometric ID cards, cooperation with a draconian detention and deportation system for migrants – U.S. Congress is about to authorize a doozy with Mexico that has critics sounding alarm bells. (more...) Nothing new from the Disaster Summit but dangerous SPP initiatives live on April 29, 2008 The media and business consensus following last week’s Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in New Orleans is that the trilateral meeting didn’t produce anything significant. While this is partly correct – no new initiatives were announced – the ones we’re stuck with are bad enough. And while we learned a few new things about the SPP’s progress since Montebello, very few of the details ended up in the news. (more...) Afghan prisoners tortured in U.S. custody… with Canada’s help April 17, 2008 It was one of the earliest scandals of Canada’s war in Afghanistan: Was Canada violating the Geneva Conventions on torture by transferring prisoners in Afghanistan to U.S. forces who were reportedly torturing them? (more...) North American foreign ministers meet in Washington for pre-SPP talks April 8, 2008 Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier met with his counterparts, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa, in Washington, D.C. today “to prepare the work for a leaders meeting that will take place in New Orleans,” according to a statement. (more...)
March 7, 2008 According to an article in the Vancouver weekly 24 Hours, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are planning a joint military exercise to coordinate "to focus on terrorist events that could affect [the] 2010 Olympics." (more...)
February 21, 2008 Do you get the Colorado Springs Gazette? Didn’t think so, but it was the only way you would have found out about a new military pact Canada signed with the United States last week. (more...)
February 11, 2008 If the Harper-appointed Manley panel stacked with pro-integration business types didn’t convince you that the Afghanistan mission is about trade rather than democracy then perhaps Stephen Harper’s new Cabinet Committee and Task Force will do the trick. (more...)
February 1, 2008 The following article by Jon Elmer and Anthony Fenton is reprinted with permission from IPS. The original story ran on January 23, 2008. (more...)
January 23, 2008 In October last year, Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom wrote that the members of Harper's handpicked Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan proved that the war is not about Afghanistan, "It is about the U.S." Four of the five appointees, "have been intimately involved with the problems of Canada-U.S. relations, and in particular with the campaign to convince Americans that Canada is not soft on terror," he wrote. (more...)
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