Picket and Action to Oppose the SPP
Saturday, August 11th – 12:30pm
Rally at Confederation Square War Memorial (top of Elgin @ Wellington)
On Saturday, August 11th, the PGA Bloc Ottawa invites all groups and individuals opposed to the Security and Prosperity Partnership to join us in directly confronting one of the corporate backers who will directly benefit from the Montebello Summit.
The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was launched as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in June 2006. It is the only formal advisory board to the SPP and is made up of 30 corporate leaders from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico with ten advisors from each of the SPP signatory states. A September 13, 2006 story in Maclean’s magazine describes NACC as a “cherrypicked group of executives who were whisked to Cancun in March by the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and asked to come up with a plan for taking North American integration beyond NAFTA.�
Harper appointed the Canadian membership of the NACC in June 2006: Dominic D’Alessandro (Manulife Financial); Paul Desmarais, Jr. (Power Corporation of Canada); David Ganong (Ganong Bros. Limited); Richard George (Suncor Energy Inc.); Hunter Harrison (CN); Linda Hasenfratz (Linamar Corporation); Michael Sabia (Bell Canada Enterprises); Jim Shepherd (Canfor Corporation); Annette Verschuren (The Home Depot); and Rick Waugh (Scotiabank).
For more information on the NACC and the corporate profiteers involved, visit http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=438
For more information about the picket and action, contact
pgabloc@gmail.com or visit pga.roadnetwork.org