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Breaching the Walls of Fortress North AmericaAnonyme, Friday, June 3, 2005 - 09:24 Report-back from an action in Montreal, Saturday 21 May 2005 A couple hundred people took to the streets in downtown Montreal last week to denounce the local exemplary war-profiteer, SNC Lavalin. A couple hundred people took to the streets in downtown Montreal last week to denounce the local exemplary war-profiteer, SNC Lavalin. After a mini-anti-imperialist concert and animated words from members of the 30 June Coalition from Toronto, the Indigenous People's Solidarity Movement, and former Black Panther Ashanti Alston, delivered in the heart of Montreal highlife-nightlife, the crowd headed quickly towards SNC's Last year SNC-Lavalin obtained a contract from the US army to supply bullets destined for use in the continued occupation of Iraq. This transaction is a snapshot of the nature of Canadian imperialism. SNC's military wing, which SNC-Lavalin well illustrates the nature of Canadian imperialism. Hypocritical, hidden, but devastatingly real. Confronted by a protest at the Annual Shareholders Meeting in Toronto on 5 May, Jacques Lamarre, Executive Director of SNC-Lavalin, responded, "We never make any sale . . . which is not 100 per cent approved and reviewed by the Canadian government." (CP, 5 May 2005). As if permission from a state rooted in the colonial enterprise of extermination of peoples morally or politically justifies the sale of its products. The subtext is the ever increasing integration of Canadian and US policies; symbolised in this instance by the cohabitation of SNC-Lavalin and the outpost of the empire in Montreal, the American consulate. Exposed to the nature of the war-profiteers currently working hard to build a racist and colonialist "Fortress North America", we are left with an intolerable awareness that we are living under the protection of empire - with all that implies about oppression, privilege and responsibility. Armed with this knowledge, we must open breaches of resistance to admit a world of justice and dignity.
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