StoopidFly: Unapproved North American Partnership

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Unapproved North American Partnership

World Net Daily:

Mexico, Canada, United States partnership underway with no authorization from Congress.

Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada.
The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
The groups, working under the North American Free Trade Association office in the Department of Commerce, are to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.

Geri Word, who heads the SPP office within the NAFTA office of the U.S. Department of Commerce affirmed to WND last Friday in a telephone interview that the membership of the working groups, as well as their work products, have not been published anywhere, including on the Internet.
Why the secrecy?

"We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public," said Word.

Yeah, good idea. You wouldn't want the people you are supposedly working for to know what you are up to. You wouldn't have enough people to answer all the phone calls from angry citizens.

You can send a coment to the SPP here.

See my original post here.