TheGrimReefer
Member
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2008
- Messages
- 8
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf
"WHAT WE SHOULD DO NOW
A North American Advisory Council. To ensure a regular
injection of creative energy into the various efforts related to North
American integration, the three governments should appoint an
independent body of advisers. This body should be composed of
eminent persons from outside government, appointed to staggered
multiyear terms to ensure their independence. Their mandatewould
be to engage in creative exploration of new ideas from a North
American perspective and to provide a public voice for North
America. A complementary approach would be to establish private
bodies that would meet regularly or annually to buttress North
American relationships, along the lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde
conferences, organized to support transatlantic relations."
"A North American Inter-Parliamentary Group. The U.S.
Congress plays a key role in American policy toward Canada and
Mexico, and conducts annual meetings with counterparts in Mexico
and in Canada. There is currently no North American program.
Bilateral inter-parliamentary exchanges can suffer fromlimited participation,
especially by the most influential legislators. The Task Force
recommends that the bilateral meetings occur every other year and
that the three North American partners form a trinational interparliamentary
group to meet in the alternating year. The North
American Advisory Council could provide an agenda and support
for these meetings. To engage senior members of the parliaments,
cabinet members could participate when the agenda matched their
area of responsibility."
Scary......
"WHAT WE SHOULD DO NOW
A North American Advisory Council. To ensure a regular
injection of creative energy into the various efforts related to North
American integration, the three governments should appoint an
independent body of advisers. This body should be composed of
eminent persons from outside government, appointed to staggered
multiyear terms to ensure their independence. Their mandatewould
be to engage in creative exploration of new ideas from a North
American perspective and to provide a public voice for North
America. A complementary approach would be to establish private
bodies that would meet regularly or annually to buttress North
American relationships, along the lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde
conferences, organized to support transatlantic relations."
"A North American Inter-Parliamentary Group. The U.S.
Congress plays a key role in American policy toward Canada and
Mexico, and conducts annual meetings with counterparts in Mexico
and in Canada. There is currently no North American program.
Bilateral inter-parliamentary exchanges can suffer fromlimited participation,
especially by the most influential legislators. The Task Force
recommends that the bilateral meetings occur every other year and
that the three North American partners form a trinational interparliamentary
group to meet in the alternating year. The North
American Advisory Council could provide an agenda and support
for these meetings. To engage senior members of the parliaments,
cabinet members could participate when the agenda matched their
area of responsibility."
Scary......
