Secret North American forum meeting in Banff, Canada.A secret meeting was held in Banff, Alberta Banff is the largest town in Banff National Park, located in Alberta's Rockies, Canada. At m ( ft), it is the town with the highest elevation in Canada, situated above Bow Falls near the junction of the Bow and Spray Rivers. , Canada, in mid-September where North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. elites, including several Bush administration officials, planned for further integration of North America. To show just how high-level this meeting was, George Shultz (secretary of state under Reagan, George W. Bush mentor, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. ) was on hand to co-chair it. According to CBC News, Mel Hurtig, noted Canadian author and politician, was one of the Banff meeting participants. Hurtig made public the agenda and attendee list for the September 12-14 forum revealing that the gathering was called "Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment." Scheduled participants from the United States included Carla Hills, Trilateral Commission Trilateral Commission From the site at Trilateral.org: The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental policy-oriented discussion group of about 325 distinguished citizens from North America, the European Union, and Japan which seeks to foster mutual issues for which these member and former U.S. Trade Representative; Dr. Robert A. Pastor, CFR CFR See: Cost and Freight member and godfather of the North American Union (NAU (1) (Network Access Unit) An interface card that adapts a computer to a local area network. (2) (Network Addressable Unit) An SNA component that can be referenced by name and address, which includes the SSCP, LU and PU. ); Dr. Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs The Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs within the Department of State of the United States federal government. The Assistant Secretary of State guides operation of the U.S. ; and Donald R. Rumsfeld, former CFR member and current secretary of defense. Rumsfeld was slated to be a keynote speaker. Topics on the agenda included North American energy strategy and security cooperation. According to Hurtig: "We're talking about such an important thing, we're talking about the integration of Canada into the United States. For them to hold this meeting in secret and to make every effort to avoid anybody learning about it, right away you've got to be hugely concerned." Thomas Shannon, who attended the Banff meeting, made very clear what the Banff meeting was about in his remarks at a meeting in Ottawa, Canada on September 14, which are posted on the U.S. Department of State's official website, usinfo.state.gov:
I also had a chance to go out to Banff, where yesterday and
today actually, Canada, the United States and Mexico held
the second session of the North American Forum.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the North American
Forum, it sprang up as a parallel structure to the Security
and Prosperity Partnership of North America. It was originally
an effort to ... begin to create a vision for North America
and an understanding of what North America is as an entity.
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