This plan would never be on the table if the global justice movement was as strong as it was leading up to the Washington D.C. IMF protests last September -- cancelled because of AMERICA'S REICHSTAG FIRE.

THIS IS WHAT THAT BLOODY CONSPIRED FRAUD ON 9/11 PRODUCED!

Where the hell is the anti-globalization movement?? Fascism is rising and
the North American resistance is SLEEPING.

TIME TO WAKE THE HELL UP!

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Dear Subscribers,
Breaking News from The Council of Canadians and Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives here for your perusal. Think Canada...a major player in the
Bush pardigm...and when we gonna oust that son-of-bitch Pierre Pettigrew
and his neo-liberal cohorts f*cki^g with our lives and the fate of our
planet?
Regards, Tom @ the Douglas College Library & http://www.globaljustice.ca
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http://www.canadians.org/news_updates.htm?id=38&step=2&COC_token=024LH24

Confidential Cabinet Document Reveals Canada's Double-Speak in Johannesburg
September 3, 2002

OTTAWA, ONTARIO - A Memorandum to Cabinet, obtained by the Council of
Canadians and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), shows that
the Canadian government is looking at what amounts to a fast track mandate
for trade negotiation, to push for a new Multilateral Agreement on
Investment (MAI) and to make environment a secondary concern to trade
imperatives.

The confidential document, which has been sent via an unmarked and anonymous
envelope, is a final draft of Canada's WTO negotiating strategy that is
awaiting Cabinet approval.

"This document shows without a doubt that the Liberal government is
hypocritical in challenging the European Union and the United States for
harming the Third World," says Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the
100,000-member Council of Canadians. "This government's mandate for the WTO
negotiations proves that the Chretien government is no friend of developing
countries and the environment."

To Bruce Campbell, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives, the memorandum is attempting to sell to Cabinet a position
that completely ignores the negative aspects of globalisation.

"The document repeats assertions about the miraculous power of trade and
investment liberalisation a la WTO to bring prosperity and cure poverty, as
if the raging worldwide debate about the malignancies of the current
globalisation didn't exist; as if the actual economic record of more than
two decades of globalisation were irrelevant."
The federal government is also seeking a mandate through cabinet to revive
the ill-fated Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) at the 5th WTO
Ministerial Meeting, which will take place in Cancun, Mexico, in September
2003.

"Civil society has fought and defeated the MAI in 1998, but we then
announced it was not fully dead and that there would soon be an attempt to
resurrect it," said David Robbins, trade campaigner with the Council of
Canadians.

"Unfortunately, we were right."

"Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew is seeking a mandate from Cabinet, but we
will see whether he will obtain a mandate from the Canadian people."

While the document acknowledges that developing countries "continue to be
concerned about taking additional obligations and express concerns that they
are not benefiting from the international rules framework as much as they
should", Canada refuses to recognise the needs and inequalities of
developing countries.

Canada is also looking "to work closely with like-minded countries to build
support of moderate developing countries and to isolate hard-line opponents
who do not share these objectives and want to hold up any progress on trade
facilitation negotiations until implement demands are fully satisfied."

Therefore, it limits its WTO options to a "one-size-fits-all" solution in
an unlevelled playing field, despite the rhetoric it expressed at the
Johannesburg Summit.

An analysis of the document, prepared by the Council of Canadians and the
CCPA, is available in the press kit.
For comments, please contact:

Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, Council of Canadians - 613.233-4487,
ext. 234
Bruce Campbell, Executive Director, CCPA - 613.563.1341, ext. 302

David Robbins, Trade Campaigner, Council of Canadians - 613.233-4487, ext.
249

For more information, please contact:
Guy Caron, Media Officer - Council of Canadians - 613.233.4487 ext. 234

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You can read the full text/final draft of the leaked government
document in a 27 page PDF file at:

http://www.canadians.org/documents/wto-draft.pdf

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The full analysis of the leaked document by the Council of Canadians can be
read in the 11 page PDF file at:

http://www.canadians.org/documents/analysis_wto_mandate_020903.pdf

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New Westminster, B.C. Canada
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