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Global warming. War. Natural disasters. Terrorism. Nuclear proliferation. What's the world coming to? As the planet gets scarier, Canada stands at a threshold, says one of the country's best-known social activists, Maude Barlow. Canadians can turn to the solutions of U.S. President George W. Bush: militarism abroad and miserliness at home, including a do-nothing approach to the environment. Or they can chart a different course: social solidarity, multilateralism, and sustainable development. In her book Too Close for Comfort, Barlow says most Canadians have told pollsters they prefer the latter option. But Canada may soon no longer be able to make that choice, warns the outspoken chairwoman of the 100,000-member Council of Canadians.

Barlow says Canada is quietly giving up the power to make independent choices on the most vital issues it faces. Operating in a secretive alliance with business lobby groups, Ottawa and Washington are quietly forging a "North American Union," with integrated and unaccountable government structures in the domains of military, intelligence, customs, immigration, and energy. The process, known as "deep integration," is effectively depriving Canadians of sovereignty. Call it a coup d'état in slow motion. It's already well underway. The whole thing started years ago with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and North American Free Trade Agreement, then accelerated dramatically after 9/11. Barlow shows how deep integration has taken root, Borg-like, in a surprisingly large number of areas of Canadian society, with little public awareness or debate. She warns that Tory leader Stephen Harper is a huge proponent of even faster integration with the U.S., so the process would only accelerate if he were to become prime minister. Too Close for Comfort is a well-written and thoroughly researched eye-opener. --Alex Roslin

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Canada’s greatest advocate considers our place in Bush’s world order.

Not since 1984, when Brian Mulroney went to New York and told a blue-chip business audience that Canada was “open for business,” has there been such a push toward continental integration and a common market for North America. The big business community is eager to use the fear of terrorism to erase the border between our two countries as much as possible. The only conceivable way to do this, as far as the U.S. is concerned, would be to make the border irrelevant by essentially harmonizing our foreign, trade, military, security, social, and resources policies.

What does this really mean? In Too Close for Comfort, the author walks us through the implications and consequences for Canada’s sovereignty and shows us how many of the values we hold dear and which tie us together as a nation would be undone. Chillingly, she also shows us how much we have already lost through such policies as the proportional energy-sharing agreement of NAFTA, and she reveals how deep integration could be used to pry open key Canadian policies such as our public health system.

In Too Close for Comfort, Barlow first offers us a clear-eyed view of the issues we’re facing and then suggests a range of possible solutions for maintaining the kind of country and society we want.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Eye opener, Avril 29 2007
Par David Phillips "Bibliophile" (Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I am from western Canada, and Barlow clearly strikes a chord with me. Of course there are powerful interests in the states and Canada that want to exploit our resources. Of course they are in bed with our politicians. This is no conspiracy theory.

The business powers desire money. That is it. There is no desire to respect the residents, invest in the local economy or play fair if they can avoid it. USA abuses of NAFTA (softwood lumber - their refusal to recognize the judgements against them by NAFTA and WTO panels) shows this - a more powerful partner abusing the system to their financial benefit. These abuses will continue and, with our extreme dependence on the states, we will be powerless to stop it.

The Canadian government has decreased medicare funding, possibly intentionally, to allow the emergence of private industry. The supreme court ruled in 2005 that the public system has failed to guarantee patients access to medical services in a timely way, so banning private clinics is unconstitutional. Do you see what has happened? The government decreased funding to the point where the system was inadequate, and thus private Canadian clinics were born.

Once private clinics become more normal, American HMO companies will move in. This is HUGE business in the states, and highly inefficient - Americans spend the highest percentage of GDP on health than any other countries. Studies show too that for-profit hospitals give less quality of care than public ones. What a surprise! For-profits cut corners, valuing the health of their patients only insofar that they return when they (presumably frequently) get sick again.

Barlow is one of a few high-profile dissident voices (among others - Chomsky for smart and Michael Moore for less smart people) who is speaking the truth. I believe that what is happening in society is the natural evolution of the system, that activism will solve very little, and that economic interests will as usual win the day. However Barlow, a devoted patriots of our socialist values, is filling a very important role in modern political literature. It opened my eyes. Maybe it will open yours?
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Another Maude Barlow Tirade, Fév 5 2006
Par Kevin Nelson "kevinandann2" (Orleans, Ontario) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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In truth, I did not finish this book. Maybe the second half is better than the first, but it is filled with a total lack of scholarship, using essays and articles that have at least been discredited if not proved to be bunk.

Barlow shows that typical central Canadian view that only those in Ontario know what is good for Canada. All other views especially those from Western Canada are dismissed. The idea of a conspiracy to sell Canada is such a leftist, laughable notion as it should be dismissed. The problem is, that a lot of Canadians accept without any thought.

There are better books on th US/Canada realtionship, with way more thought behind them. Save your money and buy one of those.

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