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Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP)From August 20-21, 2007, Stephen Harper welcomed his American idol George W. Bush and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon to Montebello, Quebec to review the progress of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The SPP – which is being implemented without any public or parliamentary scrutiny – is about eliminating Canada’s ability to set its own independent regulatory standards, environmental protection measures, energy security, foreign, military, immigration and a frighteningly wide range of other policies. Read the report Behind Closed Doors: What they're not telling us about the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The Council of Canadians was on the ground, both in Ottawa and Montebello, as the leaders met. We brought hundreds of people together at a public forum on Sunday evening, packing an auditorium at the University of Ottawa. Maude Barlow, along with civil society representatives from the U.S. and Mexico, condemned the SPP and promoted a vision of a more just and sustainable North America. We had of course originally planned to hold the forum in Papineauville, Quebec, just 6 kilometres from where the leaders met on Monday and Tuesday, but the RCMP forced the municipality to cancel our reservation at the last minute (see media release). So we made due with a smaller room in Ottawa, and unfortunately had to turn away at least 100 people on Sunday night, as people stood and crouched in the aisles of the auditorium, hungry for more information about the SPP and how to fight it. Follow the links below to watch video highlights, view photos and to download the audio from the forum. More video footage will be posted soon. PHOTOS: AUDIO/VIDEO: Stop the SPP March - Vancouver, BC protest against the SPP with No One is Illegal, August 20, 2007. Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, gives 10 reasons to oppose the SPP at the SPP public forum in Ottawa on August 19, 2007.
Video highlights from the SPP Leaders' Summit. Ottawa-Montebello August 19-21, 2007
AUDIO: Download recordings from the August 19 Public Forum in Ottawa on the SPP. Click on the images below for more information and resources about the SPP.
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