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Alison has done more digging on the US/Canadian 'Deep Integration' conference that took place in Banff last week that was apparently visited by Donald Rumsfeld:
First there's this from, as Alison calls them, the 'Fans of the Anschluss':
"We've decided not to recommend any things that would require legislative changes," says (Ron)Covais. "Because we won't get anywhere." "
"The guidance from the ministers was, 'tell us what we need to do and we'll make it happen,' " recalls Covais, who chairs the U.S. section of the council, which includes 10 CEOs of big companies like Wal-Mart, General Motors and Merck."
"Covais figures they've got less than two years of political will to make it happen. That's when the Bush administration exits, and "The clock will stop if the Harper minority government falls or a new government is elected." "
And after that Alison tells us a little more about Mr. Covais:
That's Ron Covais - President of the Americas for Lockheed Martin, a former Pentagon adviser to Dick Cheney and Chair of the US section of the North American Competitiveness Council created during the Harper/Bush Cancun meet in March.
He made these remarks following the last deep integration conference in Washington in June.
The objective of the current Banff conference is to draw up a list of recommendations for ministers of "Canada's New Government" for the reopening of parliament in October.
Stop the clock. Stop it any way you can.
Write to the CBC, national newspapers, your MLA.
I agree.
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Update Sept 19/06: I've been informed offline by someone in the know that there is no evidence that Mr. Rumsfeld actually showed up for the meeting. The thing is, if there was actually some real reporting on this, not to mention less secrecy on an initiative that is in the vital interests of all Canadians, we would be able to make more informed comments.
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