The Sale of Canada

[Oscar]

The Sale of Canada

November 20, 2007

To the Editor,

We do indeed live on the edge of perilous and challenging times.

On September 27th 2007, Exxon/Mobil and Murphy Oil stated they were going to sue Canada for $50 million [Obviously, there would be millions of dollars required for legal fees in the endeavor to stop them.] They are doing this under the provisions of NAFTA.

Of course you should ask, "Why are they doing this?" Because, the oil gurus say that Canada is asking them to spend some of their increasing profits on research and job development. [Is that like asking the fox to spend some of its energy on how to steal more chickens?]

It was a sad day for Canada when some of our members of parliament passed the FTA and NAFTA without reading the fine print. Under NAFTA Canada gave up total control of its own gas and oil. NAFTA demands that Canada provides energy to the U.S. in perpetuity. To add insult to injury, these Free Trade deals led our politicians to dismantle protection for Canadian citizens for our own energy "emergency reserves"! Just one day before Exxon launched its law suit against Canada, Prime Minister Harper told a New York audience, "NAFTA has been unequivocally good". Certainly U.S. oil interests would agree.

U.S. interests are steadily buying up Canadian businesses and resources industries, and we, the people of Canada, are allowing that to continue unabated.

The citizens of Saskatchewan have just elected a majority Sask Party government. Their leader has already stated that they do not support the CWB. They would surrender the last vestige of producer control of the Board to mostly U.S.-based global grain corporations. Sask Party have also stated that they are in agreement with our Prime Minister - who is determined to rid producers of the CWB.

Canadians are rapidly losing their sovereignty. My Webster dictionary defines treason as, "an act of handing over something", or "the betrayal of trust". The latter applies to the reality that our federal government is choosing to ignore the fact that producers in the CWB region democratically elected a majority of producer directors, who support the Board.

Leo Kurtenbach,
Box 268, Cudworth, Sask., S0K 1B0
Phone: 306 256 3638