[Winstonm]

Here and there I've seen bits and pieces about something called the North American Union and a move to introduce the "Amero" as the new currency.
However this recent quote makes it seem less surreal.


"In an interview with CNBC, a vice president for a prominent London investment firm yesterday urged a move away from the dollar to the "amero," a coming North American currency, he said, that "will have a big impact on everybody's life, in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico."
Steve Previs, a vice president at Jefferies International Ltd., explained the Amero "is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico."

The aim, he said, according to a transcript provided by CNBC to WND, is to make a "borderless community, much like the European Union, with the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso being replaced by the amero."

Previs told the television audience many Canadians are "upset" about the amero. Most Americans outside of Texas largely are unaware of the amero or the plans to integrate North America, Previs observed, claiming many are just "putting their head in the sand" over the plans."

Comments?

[mike777]

What else would you expect from a company like Jefferies.

[bearmum]

This is a New Year's joke surely??

If not it sure should be -- IMHO the US Treasury would NEVER ijn a million years desert the "greenback"

[Winstonm]

There is also this: http://www.spp.gov/

And this press release from the Council on Foreign Relations: http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/

"North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home. In response to these challenges, a trinational, Independent Task Force on the Future of North America has developed a roadmap to promote North American security and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.

When the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States met in Texas recently they underscored the deep ties and shared principles of the three countries. The Council-sponsored Task Force applauds the announced “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” but proposes a more ambitious vision of a new community by 2010 and specific recommendations on how to achieve it."

[onoway]

the close ties and shared goals...which now are requiring Canadians to have passports to fly into the States (first step) which has demolished thousands of small companies in Canada as a result of "FreeTrade" and which unfortunately we tag along with because we have now "leaders" with a golden retriever puppy mentality in regard to the States.....heaven help us poor canucks if we can't
recognize empire building aimed at us with the finesse of an old fashioned cannon.

It would seem that our "leaders" are either too busy sucking up to Bush to notice or are incapable of learning anything at all from past interactions with the States.