Jelly Bean Politics

So Los Tres Amigos were just in Montebello talking about the SPP (see the Council of Canadians Integrate This! resources) ; Daniel Tencer’s overview of media coverage in Maisonneuve provides a good overview…while Maude Barlow is quoted in The Ottawa Citizen, Summit critics ‘vindicated’:

The Council of Canadians and several other groups have demanded greater transparency, painting the NACC (North American Competitivess Council) as a secretive and elite club that uses special access with prime ministers and presidents to push an agenda of continental integration. Ms. Barlow said the “jaw-dropping” report is an admission that the SPP won’t succeed without more public input. “We’ve saying that for three years, and for three years they’ve been having their private meetings with leaders and scoffing at us for criticizing them,” Ms. Barlow said outside a Montebello ice cream stand. “For me, what happened was they got caught. All of a sudden they’re admitting that this executive level of decision-making isn’t going to fly because they forgot about democracy.

And, re the video above, now police deny using their own as provocateurs according to the Toronto Star.

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007, by Lshade and is filed under "SPP ". Both comments and pings are currently closed.