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On the Road to EU-style Governance
Monday, August 7, 2006
By William F. Jasper
Perhaps you're shaking your head in disbelief, wondering how anything as massive and costly as the NAFTA Super Highway could have progressed so far without your notice? Well, it may be that you don't belong to the right clubs - such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission (TC).
As reported in previous articles in these pages, one of the principal authors of the Security and Prosperity Partnership merger is Dr. Robert Pastor, a vice-chairman of the CFR's Task Force on the Future of North America and author of Toward a North American Community. Pastor's writings and speeches provided the blueprint for the Bush-Fox-Martin SPP merger plan.
In November 2002, Professor Pastor addressed a meeting of David Rockefeller's super-elite Trilateral Commission in Toronto, Canada. He opened his speech, entitled "A North American Community," with the following sentence: "The entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 represented a breath-taking continental opportunity."
Among the many things Pastor proposed was "establishing a single 'North American Customs and Immigration Service,'" to be composed of "officials from the three governments, trained together." He also called on the NAFTA governments (Mexico, Canada, and the United States) to create a North American Commission of "distinguished individuals" (like himself) whose "task would be to help the leaders think continentally." One of the new commission's duties would be to "develop an integrated continental plan for transportation and infrastructure." This should include, he said, "new highway corridors on the Pacific Coast and into Mexico," as well as "a plan that would permit mergers of the railroads and development of high-speed rail corridors."
Pastor cited a World Bank study that had concluded that "Mexico needs $20 billion a year for ten years, just for infrastructure." That's $200 billion, for starters. Where will such sizable sums come from? Pastor proposed the creation of a "North American Development Fund, whose priority would be to connect the U.S.-Mexico border region to central and southern Mexico." This new multi-billion dollar fund, Pastor suggested, could be administered by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. That would be very convenient, since both of these institutions are run by Pastor's fellow CFR members.
In 2004, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a leading proponent of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, introduced S. 2941, the North American Investment Fund Act. The legislation's official title says it is "a bill to authorize the President to negotiate the creation of a North American Investment Fund to promote economic and infrastructure integration among Canada, Mexico, and the United States." Section four says: "The Fund shall make grants for projects … to construct roads in Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada, and Mexico and the United States." Cornyn's bill was introduced on June 29 of this year as S. 2622.
Pastor and other NAFTA/SPP architects have repeatedly cited the European Union (EU) as the model for us to follow. The EU countries have given up control over their borders for a common perimeter; we are expected to follow suit. "Are North Americans prepared to give up their sovereignty?" Pastor asked rhetorically, in his Trilateral speech. "The term 'sovereignty' is one of the most widely used, abused, and least understood in the diplomatic lexicon.... Sovereignty, in brief, is not the issue." Leaders must throw off "aging conceptions of sovereignty," he avers, in favor of continental "integration" and "convergence."
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