NAFTA Superhighway?

I have mentionned, in my introduction blog post, that I am a conservative but am "not a big fan of Mr. Harper", to quote myself. Today I wanted to touch one of the main issues that irritate me with our current Canadian prime minister.

What I am about to talk about may have gone completely unnoticed on your radar but it is a reality and to me is also very serious question that should be debated, or at least brought to the public's attention. What I wish to inform you on today is called, the NAFTA Superhighway. NAFTA, the North-American Free Trade Agreement, is, as it's name implies, a free trade deal passed between Mexico, the United States and Canada. So far, so good, everyone loves free trade. Obviously, the lower the taxes on imported good, the better the prices, therefore giving consumers more purchasing power. Where a problem arises (in my opinion) is when it comes to the Superhighway.

The superhighway project, lobbied for aggressively by groups like NASCO, is a plan to create an International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor (link) using existing highways and roads that would be upgraded as well as brand new infrastructure. To quote the wikipedia article concerning the TTC, the Trans-Texas Corridor, a transportation network being built in Texas that will be part of this Mid-Continent Trade Corridor:

"The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is a transportation network in the planning and early construction stages in the U.S. state of Texas. The network, as planned, would be composed of a 4,000-mile (6,000 km) network of supercorridors up to 1,200 feet (370 m) wide to carry parallel links of tollways, rails, and utility lines.The tollway portion would be divided into two separate elements: truck lanes and lanes for passenger vehicles. Similarly, the rail lines in the corridor would be divided among freight, commuter, and high-speed rail. Services expected to be carried in the utility corridor include water, electricity, natural gas, petroleum, fiber optic lines, and other telecommunications services. The Trans-Texas Corridor will allow passenger vehicular speed limits of up to 85 mph (140 km/h). The network will be funded by private investors and built and expanded as demand warrants."

This sounds like a good idea so far, but then, why would the government deny the existence of these plans?

Wait ... what? The government denies the existence of plans for a NAFTA Superhighway?

Yep. In many occasions have questions been asked to elected officials who had either genuinely never heard of it or simply denied it's existence and tried to ridicule concerns about this. These concerns range from the security risks of having freight travel freely with pre-clearance for international shipping to the loss of control over such multi-national organisations. The corridor's plans also completely disregard property rights and will have to appropriate thousands of acres of private land. It will surely be funded with tax money, at least in part (which will probably be higher in Canada, where we love to tax). Worse, many, including myself, believe there is more to this, seeing how the plans for this have been drafted under the secrecy of SPP meetings.

This partnership (SPP), which many refer to as a precursor to a North American Union (which has been pushed for years by the very powerful Council on Foreign Relations) is, to me, the biggest threat to Canadian sovereignty. Far beyond any of their individual projects, like the Superhighway I have brought to your attention today, the SPP is a U.N. type multinational organisation whose power could very soon rule over national governments, in the same way the European Union does. For a conservative like me, such a loss of our sovereignty is unacceptable. What makes it even worse is that all of this is done behind closed door, by people whose agendas we do not know about. The SPP agreement, for example, was signed without a vote being passed (at least in Canada and the USA, I am not sure about Mexico). This kind of secret deals, in any republic or democracy, are suspicious and certainly appear to me as dishonest.

To illustrate my point and also link all of this with my dislike of Stephen Harper, I shall conclude with this video and a warning that it may make you slightly mad:



**After some feedback from a reader over at RonPaulForums.com, I've decided to post an MSNBC article that he submitted to my attention.

Drivers protest allowing Mexico trucks in U.S.

Teamsters, others say plan giving vehicles nationwide access is unsafe
SAN DIEGO - Dozens of truckers rallied at Mexican border crossings in California and Texas Thursday to protest a pilot program to allow up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to haul their cargo anywhere in the United States.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20625369

And again, thanks to "New Governor Of Alaska" from RPF for sending me this additionnal information, more proof that this is very real and happening right now, while the mainstream media ignores the subject.