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SPP resources

SPP Summit - New Orleans
April 21-22, 2008

SPP Summit - Montebello
August 19-21, 2007

Teach-in
March 31 to April 1, 2007

 

Backgrounders & factsheets

SPP Handbill - SPP: Do Not Resuscitate, August 2009

SPP update - Obama, Calderón, Harper: Abandon the SPP and Renegotiate NAFTA to Protect Jobs, the Environment and Civil Liberties, August 2009

Deep Integration: A Timeline, Council of Canadians, August 2009

Bill C-51 and the SPP: Not a healthy choice for Canada, May 8, 2008

Not Counting CanadiansNot Counting Canadians: The Security and Prosperity Partnership and public opinion, April 16, 2008

Surveying Canadian attitudes towards trade issues and the SPP, April 15, 2008

The SPP Makes You Sick: Harmonization of environmental standards directly impacts Canadians’ health, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2008

From NAFTA to the SPP: Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but what security and whose prosperity, an article by Katherine Sciacchitano in the January/February 2008 edition of Dollars and Sense magazine.

Why Foreign Ownership Still Matters, January 22, 2008, Mel Watkins

NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Disputes, January 1, 2008, Scott Sinclair

Beyond NAFTA: The Security and Prosperity Partnership (PDF), John W. Foster, 2008

Interview with Professor Alberto Arroyo, member of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC), from Summer 2007.

On the Streets and Behind the Gates: A special 8-page supplement Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2007

More power, please: The North American Competitiveness Council’s 2007 Report to SPP Leaders, By Stuart Trew, October 1, 2007

Behind Closed Doors: What they're not telling us about the Security and Prosperity Partnership

SPP handbills - download (PDF) and distribute in your community!

More Than Jellybeans: The SPP Regulatory Framework Agreement and Its Impact on Chemicals Regulation, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, By Bruce Campbell, September 2007

The North American Competitiveness Council and the SPP: Les agents provocateurs at the Montebello Leaders' Summit, by Teresa Healy, Social and Economic Policy, Canadian Labour Congress, September 2007

On August 18, 2007, representatives of energy workers unions, social justice networks and civil society organizations from Mexico, Canada and the United States, met in Montreal to discuss alternatives to the energy provisions in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Here is the final declaration from the meeting.

Integrate This! Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, Council of Canadians, Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007 - 12 page supplement

High Stakes and Big Ideas: Teach-in draws hundreds to Ottawa to challenge the Security and Prosperity Partnership, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2007

What I was Trying to Say... The presentation on Canada's energy that sent the Harper government scrambling, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2007

Putting our food at risk: The Security and Prosperity Partnership is lowering food standards in Canada, Council of Canadians, July 2007

Leaked document: North American Future 2025 Project (PDF format)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Backgrounder: The North American Future 2025 Project (PDF format)
The Council of Canadians’ analysis

Notes on energy policy and the SPP for presentation to the International Trade Committee (PDF), Gordon Laxer, director of Parkland Institute and Board Member of The Council of Canadians, May 10, 2007

Presentation on the SPP to the International Trade Committee (PDF),
Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, The Council of Canadians, May 1, 2007

The North American Competitiveness Council: The corporate driving force behind deep integration, Council of Canadians, (PDF) Backgrounder, September 2007

Get to the truth about the SPP: A series of downloadable, educational Fact Sheets
Common Frontiers

Deep Integration in North America: Security and Prosperity for Whom? Research paper by Teresa Healy, Canadian Labour Congress, February 20, 2007

SPP report calls for fivefold increase in tar sands production: "The fivefold expansion anticipated for oil sands products in a relatively short time span will represent many challenges for the pipeline industry. New and expanded pipelines will move more volume into existing and expanding interior U.S. markets, and offer shipments to California via the Canadian West Coast." Read the full report here. 2006

Harper gets by with a little help from his (corporate) friends: Cancun summit welcomes CEOs to the table, Council of Canadians, Canadian perspectives, Summer 2006

Threats to Our Water: NAFTA, SPP, Atlantica, Super-Corridors (PDF) - by Dr. Janet M. Eaton for Sierra Club's Water Privatization Task Force. Alarming new developments that will promote the sale of bulk water between the three NAFTA countries, particularly from Canada to the U.S

Why the Waco pact is, well, wacko: Five things you should know about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, Council of Canadians, Canadian Perspectives, Spring/Summer 2005

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