60 reasons to dump Harper - continued

# 41 North American Union Planned....But Quietly

Dozens of regulations are being quietly altered to help integrate Canada with our neighbors to the south. The problem is, almost no one knows about it and no one has been consulted.

Up for grabs is the Canadian energy grid, Canadian drug laws and federal food regulations. At a 2006 meeting in Banff, public safety minister Stockwell Day and defence minister Gordon O'Connor met with Donald Rumsfeld and other military, political and business elite to discuss how to open the Canada-US and US-Mexico borders.

Notes obtained through US freedom of information laws outlines participants' fears that further integration, similar to that of the European Union, would not be well received by the citizens. Their solution? Integration by stealth, with the harmonization of food, drug, transportation and energy regulations — which do not require parliamentary approval — as the first steps.

Who says that Harper is hamstrung by his minority government?

xtra.ca brings us a countdown of 60 of the ways Harper is reshaping Canada in his own image. Since our last post:

#42 $22 Billion, Unspent, Used To Pay Down The Debt

#43 Harper Rails Against Judges Who Strike Anti-Gay Laws

#44 Mandatory Sentencing Catches Anal Sex Law

#45 CBC Kaput After Harper Majority

LINK: Xtra.ca