So This Is What We’ve Come To
Welcome to life under Canada’s New Government: Quebec Municipality told by Canadian police and the US Army that it cannot rent out its’ own buildings for a public meeting – we’re not even allowed to discuss it anymore.
RCMP, U.S. Army block public forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership
The Council of Canadians has been told it will not be allowed to rent a municipal community centre for a public forum it had planned to coincide with the next Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21.
The Municipality of Papineauville, which is about six kilometres from Montebello, has informed the Council of Canadians that the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the U.S. Army will not allow the municipality to rent the Centre Communautaire de Papineauville for a public forum on Sunday August 19, on the eve of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit.
“It is deplorable that we are being prevented from bringing together a panel of writers, academics and parliamentarians to share their concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Canadians,†said Brent Patterson, director of organizing with the Council of Canadians. “Meanwhile, six kilometres away, corporate leaders from the United States, Mexico and Canada will have unimpeded access to our political leaders.â€
As well as being shut out of Papineauville, the Council of Canadians has been told that the RCMP and the SQ will be enforcing a 25-kilometre security perimeter around the Chateau Montebello, where Stephen Harper will meet with George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón on August 20 and 21. According to officials in Montebello, there will be checkpoints at Thurso and Hawkesbury, and vehicles carrying more than five people will be turned back.
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. The organization works to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, safe food, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.
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Stuart Trew, media contact:
Tel.: (613) 233-4487, ext. 228;
Cell: (613) 292-2218;
strew@canadians.org.For more information about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, visit IntegrateThis.ca.
Much less assemble to engage in Free Speech.
what happened to Good Government?
Gee, I guess that’s to prevent Canadians from another Atlantica-like confrontation? …its for our own good, right?
I still say, CBC should sponsor a Round Table between Activists, Charter or Rights & Freedoms Legal Analysts, Media & EMTs…
You think CBC will cover this protest without vilifying either Cops or Activists? avoiding confrontation by preventing assembly doesn’t aid this issue…
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“As well as being shut out of Papineauville, the Council of Canadians has been told that the RCMP and the SQ will be enforcing a 25-kilometre security perimeter around the Chateau Montebello, where Stephen Harper will meet with George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón on August 20 and 21. According to officials in Montebello, there will be checkpoints at Thurso and Hawkesbury, and vehicles carrying more than five people will be turned back.“?
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They want to build a North American Union. They know the average people will not approve of this. They want to be able to create a supergovernment that overrides all the laws of all 3 nations. If what they were proposing were what the average citizen wanted to hear, they would have no problem with letting people in.
And, like the good litte sheeple the government wants, the majority of Canadians shrug and say what can we do?
The answer of course is to tell them that you’re not interested, a flood of email and calls to talk radio shows across the country would be a good start, as would a few thousand car loads (with 4 people inside) getting as close to them as possible to protest this sort of state suppression of simple individual rights like freedom of association, freedom of expression, and freedom of mobility.
I note that the Blogging Tories are, to a blogger, silent on this type of government action and secrecy. I didn’t expect an ‘en mass coordinated set of posts, but I did expect that at least one or two of them might take issue with their Nu Government telling a Municipality who it can/cannot rent its buildings out to, and the US Army being involved in that order.
Whooee! I ain’t got all the details yet, but this whole SPP thing has got me chewin’ nails an’ fartin’ tacks.
I ain’t sure what authority the RCMP, SQ an’ US Army have over Canajun municipalities. Seems like they got some. What about private meetin’ halls? Church halls? Lion’s Club halls? What about rentin’ a hall 25.1 km away?
Here’s a little experiment I just dreamed up. Over the next while, I’m gonna try to ask everybuddy I get a chance to talk to if they know what SPP stands for. I’m plannin’ on goin’ to a outdoor concert tonight so I reckon I’ll get a chance to hobnob with 20 or 30 or more. I’ll be down in Port Dover this weekend fer part o’ the big Friday the 13th festivities. There’s supposed to be a hunnert thousand showin’ up, so I reckon I’ll find a few to ask.
JB
Whooee! Sorry fer doublin’ up on the comments. In that last comment, I dreamed up a poll. I just now wrote up a boog story on it an’ I’m hopin’ a few Canajun boogers’ll take me up on the challenge.
JB
[...] While I was postin’ a comment over to Stageleft, I got thinkin’ about how SPP has been flyin’ under the radar. I got a boogin’ poll that might help bring this festerin’ boil to a head. [...]