North American Union pt. 1

One of the biggest reasons I started this blog was to put into some sort of order my ideas and impressions of the "mythical" North American Union. The idea started at least as far back as 1849 in Canada, and I would have to assume that the threads of it go even further back. After all, what were the Powers That Be really interested in North America for? Land, resources, and control. It is what drove the Pioneers west, to settle across the land and claim it for their way of life. The artificial divisions created by Nation-States are nothing more than modern-day extensions of the Empires that came to settle this continent. The British (Canada, which is still part of the Commonwealth, and the US which broke off from the Brits), the French (Quebec, which still has separatist ideas including divisions in the official language of the province) and Spain (Mexico).

So now here we are at the beginning of the 21st Century, and talk of merging into a NAU is reviled and scorned. The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was formed in March of 2005 and is pointed at by most of the conspiracy theorists as a major indication that the governments of Canada, US and Mexico are really in cahoots, plotting to merge into the Union and strip the individual Nations of their Sovereignty. The NAFTA Superhighway is another common bugaboo, a corridor from Mexico to Canada 4 football fields wide that will have truck and rail transportation, and will allow the free movement of goods between all 3 nations. Further evidence is the loosening of restrictions on Mexican trucks into the US to deliver goods. Members of the transportation industry say that this will destroy the Trucking Industry in the US and that dangerous and unregulated Mexican trucks will kill Americans and take business away from US companies, putting hundreds if not thousands of small US trucking companies out of business. This is an issue that goes back years, and has proponents on both sides of the matter, for and against allowing Mexican trucks access to US highways.

So what does this mean for the US? Cheap immigrant labor coming into yet another sector of our country, undermining local companies and putting Americans out of business? Or the next logical step in utilizing the resources, both manpower and companies, of the entire continent in a beneficial way to the whole of the populous?

More next time.

North American Union pt. 2