Canadian Ties With EU a Growing Concern
As Canada moves towards strengthening agreements with the European Union, our own sovereignty is starting to fog.

Josh Rohrback | October 20 2004

The European Union is a stepping stone for the Illuminati’s plans. As a Canadian citizen who is concerned with the expansion of a world government, I am dismayed at the role my government has played in bringing it into fruition.

Canada is one of the European Union’s oldest and closest partners. What started out in the 1950’s as a purely economic relationship has evolved over the years to become a close strategic alliance. The European Union works with Canada on a large range of diverse issues ranging from research into alternative energy sources to providing police officers for Bosnia. As a source of solidarity, Canadian and European leaders meet regularly at bilateral summits to exchange views on a wide range of issues.

Let’s look at a brief history of relations between Canada and the European Union. In 1976, the European Economic Community (EEC) and Canada signed a Framework Agreement on Economic Co-operation, the first formal agreement of its kind between the EEC and an industrialized third country. In 1990, EU leaders in conjunction with Canada adopted a Declaration on Transatlantic Relations, extending the scope of their contacts and establishing regular meetings at Summit and Ministerial level. In 1996, a new Political Declaration on EU-Canada Relations was made at the Ottawa Summit, adopting a joint Action Plan identifying additional specific areas for co-operation.

At the Ottawa Summit on 18 March 2004, the EU and Canada adopted a Partnership Agenda which identifies ways of working together to move forward on issues of mutual interest, especially where joint action can achieve more than both sides acting alone; including foreign and security policy with multilateral institutions and effective global governance programs, justice and home affairs, global economic growth through a successful round of multilateral trade talks, and tackling global challenges including climate change, and poverty in developing countries.

A large concern I have is the publicized development of new European programs in education, training and youth within British Columbia after 2006. These will replace the existing Socrates, Tempus, Leonardo da Vinci and Youth programs when they end in 2006. The Canadian Government is providing a total of $10 million in additional, one-time funding to colleges, university colleges and institutes across B.C. to help improve the quality of post-secondary education. I feel that this funding might have a lot to do with future development of European Union education. Perhaps our government wishes to mesh with the EU on an even more intimate scale?

EU power is thick, with 25 members and a population of 450 million people producing a quarter of the world’s GDP. That number will grow with the induction of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia this past May, in which all mentioned support the bid of Turkey joining the Union.

It would seem that cooperation with the EU would be a viable alternative in lieu of Canadian adherence to American foreign policy which is highly unpopular in this country. The fact that a top Canadian official could dismiss U.S. President George W. Bush as "a moron" is a telling indication of how far political ties between the world's two largest trading partners have deteriorated over the last few years. "There is enormous cynicism among government ministers about Bush's motives for wanting to attack Iraq," said another well-placed official. So the government, being democratic prefers the European model of power, but what about the voters?

What do Canadians think of our government moving in solidarity with such a world movement? In our nation’s capital of Ottawa, the vast majority I’ve confronted on the issue have shown either ambivalence or disinterest. This to me is more striking than the continual polarization regarding foreign policy and trade with our neighbors south of the border.
Speaking of which…

The adversities with American and Canadian governments are growing. Canada is locked into costly trade disputes with Washington over exports of softwood and wheat and was also extremely upset when U.S. officials started fingerprinting Canadian citizens born in a number of Middle Eastern and African countries. Since Bush's election, the United States has imposed punitive duties on softwood lumber imported from Canada and is investigating possible penalties on Canadian wheat. NAFTA is far from being a perfect model it seems.

Canada has been involving itself within the EU to such an extent, that Ottawa has been negotiating an arrangement with the European Union whereby Canada could participate in EU-led military operations. Like recent discussions with the United States over our potential role in Northern Command, negotiations with Europe seem to have been carried out with little public or parliamentary input. As a result,

Canadians have little information upon which to assess the impact of the proposed relationship on our security interests. Like the evolving continental defense partnership, a Canada-EU accord raises concerns over control of Canadian foreign and defense policy. This does not sound to me to be in the best interest of our citizens. Are we in the EU already? They may have to change their name to the Trans-Atlantic Union.

Where does this leave Canada with the UN? Well according to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, “Canada is a pillar of the United Nations and a critical element behind the international institution’s vitality.”

Annan encourages Canada to “aim higher” in its quest to strengthen world governance – a challenge that Prime Minister Paul Martin takes seriously. To quote Martin in a haunting retort, “The time to act is now.”

I for one am acting now, but certainly not in the interests of world governance.

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