To put a package together for any US blogs that may be trying to tackle this issue? As we all have found its mostly the Canadian POV, or the *ahem* right wing in the states.

I just changed my sheets, and am not really wanting to get into bed with them. Call me persnickety.

Ill get some Canadian links up here momentarily.

Powers that be, powers of three, keep me strong during this insanity......

besides Maude Barlow, but somehow I think the best start point for the American side of the border is Chet Scoville's bit. That one needs to be presented over and over - repetition seems to work for the 'black hats'.

And Alison at Creekside's series on SPP.

They (US readers) need to know more about the 'North American Competiveness Council' - i.e. the blue-chip CEO group that are prepping the reports. And they need to see who these CEOs represent. It's not difficult to begin connecting dots when it's Lockheed Martin, insurers, communications, transport etc CEOs.. 

Any material directed at the American reader needs to impress over and over that the wing-nutty aspects of the American right's objections needs to be ignored. The focus need to be on the decision-making by corporations out of legislative oversight. No talk about the 'immigration issues'. It has to be about 'Corporate Rights superceding People's Rights'; 'Death by Deregulation'.

The other side is beginning to notice that we're noticing. Just been over to spp.gov and they have just recently updated, since the end of Montebello,  their 'myths vs. facts' page. The message to US readers is - are you really going to take what the White House says, after everything else, at face value?

I'll try to put together a template for a letter to elected representatives. That's maybe two templates since the approach might differ slightly between Canada and the USA.

I 'volunteer' Prole to whip up an LTE.
I've seen her do up a couple (hey, they've been in my local papers). Seems she's good at them. They get published.

As far as time though right now. This is about it. It may be Friday afternoon but I still have 'work' work.

Everything's cheaper than it looks.

Would you possibly have time to get that info on the Chambers of Commerce? Perhaps a press kit? or the nuts and bolts of one?

Pretty please? :)

Just jump right on in! The more the merrier I always say.

Powers that be, powers of three, keep me strong during this insanity......

Basic government page - you can search by postal code or name of MP: Canada.gc.ca

NDP: Find your riding and general party contact info

Liberals: Find your riding and general party contact info

Greens: Find your riding and general party contact info

Republicans of Canada: search for your MP on the front page

Rhino Party: contacts, party invitations

There is no justice in Candy Land.

Dear Newspaper editor,

It seems the controversy surrounding the recent SPP protest in Montebello, Quebec, has somewhat overshadowed the issue at hand - the SPP itself. The working group of the SPP, the NACC, consists of the heads of insurance, energy, and defense industries, among others. I can only surmise, through years of precedent, that these captains of industry care not for the safety and well-being of the citizens of their respective countries, but only their own bottom line, and will act accordingly.

The SPP is a Bush White House initiative. That in and of itself should give anybody pause, since that administration has done absolutely nothing in its existence that has been to the benefit of anybody but the most astronomically wealthy among us. The list of things the Bush administration has either destroyed (whole countries such as Iraq, and soon to be Iran), or bungled (Katrina, Social Security, No Child Left Behind, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) is too extensive to list here.

When considering the SPP, ask yourself this: do you trust the current White House? Have you ever seen the United States want something that it has not simply helped itself to?

Sincerely,

Super smart blogger

There is no justice in Candy Land.

Thank you! Take a bow, Prole!