Comments on: CANADA: Losing Control of Water Through NAFTA and SPP

By: Security And Prosperity Partnership

Security And Prosperity Partnership — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:13:00 +0000

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By: Protecting Canada’s Water from the US « Stephen Leahy Environmental Journalist

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:28:07 +0000

[...] Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada lost control over its energy resources. Now, with “NAFTA-plus”, Canada could also lose control over its freshwater resources, say experts in this Sept 2007 article CANADA: Losing Control of Water Through NAFTA and SPP [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:13:15 +0000

Philip, absolutely right and I’ve added some new info on its

By: Phillip Stephens

Phillip Stephens — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:39:07 +0000

This is amazing and valuable information. It just so happens that I’m the number two organizer of the S.P.P. protest here in Ottawa on Feb 16th. I decided a few days ago that the number issue on the minds of Canadians is the fate of our fresh water supply. The Government needs to come clean about the possibility of bulkwater exports to the U.S.

I am a firm believer that this is not the right course of action. We need to convince the corporations that there is money to be made in investing in better technologies to refine and purify sea water as well as rain water and other sources as well. I also see that above all else, we need to become less wasteful as well. I would be very interested to here your feedback to this post, as I am in need of ideas for the protest. The more I know about the S.P.P. and it’s relation to the Canadian people and U.S. water shortages the better.

I hope life is treating you well:

Phillip Stephens, Activist

By: Virginia

Virginia — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:39:16 +0000

The whole point that is being well covered up is that they think that moving water via conduits out of Canada, sidling the highway makes it CONTAINABLE, thus sellable, and not freestanding.

There are 25 US states suffering from drought, who would gladly trade away their oppposition to the NAU (now called the SPP, for now) IF they could get some of that water. Only 13 US states have passed legislation against it.

Now the real rub is that we need national sovereignty to ensure human rights to basic needs. This would be sacrified to “strategic” interests, which is code for keep the US mlitary/biz machine running at whatever cost it is to Canadian citizens.

This corporate robots running the SPP, the Competitive Council are literally playing God, thinking that they and they alone (there’s been no outside consultation! just a promise came out at the time the media could spin it) know what is “best” for what . it’s now just some “commodity”. Water itself is a LIVING thing and WE have a relationship to it. But this isn’t about relationships, is it? Is about bold brutal theft from Canadian people and First Nations people.

Clean water for all is a bottom line issue that the SPP will conveniently sidestep too. This government should be ashamed already; du is the precise reason that the Algonquins will not allow the du dumping in the Ottawa River which would be a hazard for anyone in that water table. They ain’t going anywhere anytime soon and this is going to be one great huge standoff or worse as things proceeed.