The Canadian National Newspaper: CTV's Mike Duffy gives platform to former U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci, to insult Canadian sensibilities over blocked space firm take-over

CTV's Mike Duffy gives platform to former U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci, to insult Canadian sensibilities over blocked space firm take-over

On Friday 11 April 2008, Mike Duffy Live on CTV, invited former U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci, to react to the Stephen Harper government's rejection of an Alliant Techsystems Inc. bid to take-over Canada's MDA Corp. During that interview, Mr. Cellucci proceeded to take great advantage of Mr. Duffy's platform, to sharply criticize the Harper government's decision. Mr. Cellucci's criticisms include, lecturing to Canadians about America being a "good ally", and that such foreign investments reviews against such a "good ally" are basically "totally unnecessary".

Although it can be said that the American people are "good neighbours", the American government and its principal interests, by and large, are not "good neighbours". Let me explain. When we Canadian citizens go down to "the States" to visit, the typical American as a "good neighbour" will extend their hospitality to us. The typical American will also express their fondness of what they know about Canada, and when these Americans visit, will enjoy our cultural differences.

The same cannot be generally said of the American government, and its principal interests. What are these principal interests? The principal interests of the American government include its politicians who are backed by the elites of Big Businesses, "think-tanks", and "military-intelligence" infrastructures. The American government and its principal interests, are not even a "good ally" to the American people themselves.

The U.S. Bush administration. denies food, shelter, access to basic healthcare, the maintenance of social policies, and environmental protections, that are vital to the affirmation of the quality-of-survival for Americans. At the same time, the American government, having also lied to the American public, leaches trillions of dollars from American taxpayers to pursue an elite agenda against Iraqis. This apparent military adventurism, has resulted in the deaths of more than 70,000 U.S. soldiers, as documented by U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and more than one million Iraqi civilians. The U.S. government is pursuing an apparent insecurity agenda, rather than "national security". This agenda seeks to rationalize the profiteering of elites interests like those represented by Alliant Techsystems. Such companies that seek to thrive from the weaponization of space express a culture of military imperialism and violence, that is an affront to our sensibilities as Canadians, to extend our peace-embracive identity into space.

Unfortunately, the American people have allowed their society to de-evolve away from its democratic potentials, into a substantively predatory society. The American government, and its principal interests have sought to wash away the hope for America, that Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., other civil rights leaders, and anti-Vietnam War counter-culture protesters, sought to champion during the late 1960's. America as a prospective forward-thinking democracy has now been replaced by a cynical culture of self-serving elites, characterized by Cellucci's comments.

It is within our national consciousness, as Canadians, to be vigilant against the pretence of American government and its principle interests being an so-called "ally" of Canada. Since the American Revolution, America's elites have always sought the goal of "Manifest Destiny" against Canada. Manifest Destiny is an ideology that base itself on the notion that "America's mission" having started as "Thirteen Colonies" along its Atlantic shores, is to rule over the whole of North America.

Indeed, in order to achieve this elite-driven ambition, America's infant political-military-industrial complex contrived several illegal invasions of Canadian soil during the War of 1812, that aboriginal peoples had a vital role in repelling. It is particularly also notable that Canada, was invaded based upon the same strategy of using fabrications, that America would also seek to use to invade Iraq centuries after. It seems that the "leopard does not change their spots".

"Good allies" respect each other's national independence, and the right of 'free and democratic' nations to pass laws and make decisions that seek to defend their national independence. Indeed, if Mr. Cellucci was seeking to be a "good ally", he would fully respect the decision of the Harper government, to act in the "national interest", as a democratically elected government. After all, as one Liberal MP commented, U.S. President George Bush administration would probably not want corresponding parts of NASA, supported through U.S. taxpayers, to be taken-over by foreign interests. However, it is apparent that Mr. Cellucci's comments was not that of a "good ally". Rather, Mr. Cellucci's comments were consistent with the attitude of the same culture of self-serving elites, who have always sought to assimilate Canada, that now apparently seek "planetary conquest" through so-called "Globalization", and the launching of illegal wars, that include the one on Iraq.

Rather than being a "good ally" Mr. Cellucci seeks to treat Canada as a prospective American colonial possession, like Puerto Rico, that has no right to defend itself from the exploitative agenda of America's elites.

America, as a democracy, is being currently replaced by a clique of elites who seek to create an Empire for themselves, at the expense of the American people, and of democratic control among ourselves, as Canadians in the direction of our own society.

A clique American imperialists that is sometimes referred to as "Globalists" by diverse activist communities, seeks to pursue an agenda of insatiable greed and authoritarian control. The result of any take-over of MDA, by an Alliant or any other U.S. bidder associated with the U.S. political-military-industrial complex, would be a further surrender of our national control, to a clique of well-financed self-serving jingoistic elites.

Any employee of MDA, who thought that an American owner with "lots of cash" would act like Santa Claus, has not fully appreciated the lessons of history. Any Canadian company that is taken over by an American Big Business enterprise, can look forward to an American management culture in which predatory labour practices fostered in the United States, are the norm. Just ask the typical U.S.-owned Walmart or Starbucks employee in Canada.

Canadian Big Business are not "angels", but at least, such Canadian controlled enterprises have developed a management culture that has evolved by having to be sensitized to our cultural norms as a society, in the context of our labour laws, which have developed out of critical recognition of the importance of union rights.

The kind of rights that Canadian-owned enterprises have been required to recognize, are the kind of rights that U.S. Big Business interests like Walmart, have sought to use their access to great financial wealth, to systematically evade, and to frustrate litigation in the court system.

Mr. Cellucci's comments were, indeed, that of a colonial agent of U.S. empire, and who unlike the typical American, has no respect for our cultural differences, and our very national independence, as Canadians. Members of America's "ruling class" -- to borrow a phrase used by learned former Harpers Magazine editor, Lewis Lapham -- like Mr. Cellucci, will not be satisfied, until Canada is completely taken-over, and the U.S. Flag is flying over Parliament Hill, like the depiction in CBC-TV's mini-series "Trojan Horse".

In that mini-series, Canada was taken-over by the United States through a vote of merger, and Canada was divided into six states.

Make no mistake, it is the apparent objective of Mr. Cellucci's and the "U.S. interests" that he represents, is to take-over Canada piece-by-piece with no scrutiny to such U.S. corporate take-overs, until there is nothing left of our national identity, to resist American elite dominion over Canada. This was the goal U.S. elites and their treacherous Canadian partners led by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's reaching of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1988. The goal of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) that former Prime Minister Paul Martin dubiously agreed to in 2005 was to "finish the job", through the expressed goal of a "North American Union" (NAU) under U.S. elite control.

However, Canadians should be wary to think that the Harper government's blocking of the Alliant purchase marks the beginning of a new change of policy toward the nationalistic defence of Canadian sovereignty. As clever tacticians, the Harper government would not want Canada to sell out too quickly before elites in Canada who have been parties to the sell-out of Canada are provided with sufficiently lucrative commercial deals in the United States.

The Harper government's blocking of the Alliant purchase is appears to be a signal to the U.S. political-military-industrial complex that their SPP-NAU will not be supported by Canadian elites "for free".

Canadians who seek to prevent the take-over of Canada by U.S. interests cannot therefore entrust the defence of their national independence to the Harper government, as long as this government has not sought to cancel SPP-NAU, inclusive of the accompanying NAFTA scheme.

It was former Prime Minister John N. Turner as leader of the Liberal Opposition which made the following poignant statement on 12 October 1988:

Is it our national destiny to be taken over by the likes of Alliant, and the values of an accompanying culture of self-serving elites? Or, as Canadians are you inspired by our national potential to make a difference in the world through values of human rights; inspired by multiculturalism; social justice, inspired by our model of universal public healthcare; and environmental protection, based upon the vitality of our natural heritage wonders?

As Canadians, do you appreciate the value of social safety nets; protection for the quality-of-living of our cities and other communities, or do you prefer that our urban environmental degenerate into a milieu of every man, woman and child, for him and herself, where social despair becomes the norm?

As a Canadian, do you want to have control over your own economic destiny with your fellow Canadians, or do you want to surrender that control to a clique of elites in the U.S, who have little concern for their welfare of even their own citizens, a part from having them as "consumers of products"?

As Canadians, if we in fact, truly value our nationhood, isn't it is about time that we started acting as a nation, and take-back our country from self-serving foreign interests that seek to exploit us, in association with the traitors who seek to sell us out to these foreign interests?

The time to re-kindle the Canadian spirit is now; as a vital alternative to the path of fascism, that America's ruling class seeks to advance. Canada can be that reinvigorated citadel; that helps inspire the world to chooses a different path that is inspired by empathy, peace, and wisdom, and not a predatory path of hostile economic and military advancements against sovereign nations.

The destruction of Canada as a mentor of civility in the world, would substantively destroy hope for an international relations milieu governed by anything but the insatiable appetite of America's ruling class to exploit and destroy any shred of human free will left in the world. The path for America's elites is that of eventual total war. We, as Canadians, cannot afford to allow this apocalyptical descent to occur.

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