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Police expect protests but few problems when the two-day North American Leaders Summit gets under way Monday in New Orleans. It's VIP duty as President Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper get together to talk trade. But for the New Orleans Police Department, it's more of the same in a a string of high-profile, crowd-generating events early in 2008.

Good morning. I am pleased to welcome my colleagues, the Foreign Minister* of Mexico, Foreign Minister* Espinosa and the Foreign Minister of Canada, Foreign Minister Bernier, to this meeting. We have had an opportunity to discuss a number of issues this morning, and we will continue over lunch to go further into our discussions. Obviously, the relationship between the United States, Canada and Mexico is one of the most critical from the point of view of American foreign policy. The President said very early on that a good foreign policy begins in the neighborhood, and we have no closer and more important neighbors than Canada and Mexico.

In preparation for our leaders' meeting in New Orleans on April 21-22, we, the ministers responsible for the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) met in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, to review progress on the five priorities identified by leaders in Montebello and to discuss cooperative approaches to common challenges and opportunities.

The Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP) will meet on Monday, March 10, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 1105 of the Harry S. Truman Building. The meeting will last until approximately 4:00 p.m. and is open to the public. The meeting will be hosted by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs (EEB) Daniel S. Sullivan and Committee Chairman Theodore Kassinger.

The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, will meet their Mexican and U.S. counterparts - Secretary of Economy Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mourino Terrazo, Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff in Los Cabos, Mexico, on February 27-28, 2008, to discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).

Water shortages are no longer the exclusive concern of poor desert countries, and unless we change course dramatically, the entire world could go to war over water. This was the message of Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, in Montreal Monday night as part of a national tour for her new book, Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

The first "North American Union" driver's license, complete with a hologram of the continent on the reverse, has been created in North Carolina.

The Amero is not being pursued by various elite-driven "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) related interests because of alleged benefits to the general Canadian, U.S. and Mexican public. The Amero is an apparent agenda to introduce a new "continental" currency that will enable corporate elites to steal investment gains and savings from individuals.

Our latest slice of the New World Order will create a common market and currency and a “harmony of laws.” This Union, which is the brainchild of the Council for Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission in 1967, stayed on the back burner until the 80’s, gaining momentum under Reagan. It took a big jump in 2001 with the Bush/Fox “Partnership for Prosperity” and the Union now has a tri-national ministerial-level working group trying for a 2010 North American “community.”

It's been called "NAFTA on crack," and the participants have been derided as "the Three Amigos," but you'd better start taking the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) seriously. Aimed at keeping "our borders closed to terrorism yet open to trade," according to their website, the SPP is poised to change the face of North America.