Sue's Blog was the first to raise the issue of corporate sponsorships at this event. Questions were raised about the appropriateness of Premier's selling face time to corporations at such important policy get-togethers.
You see corporations don't vote - they are not people - yet they get more attention after the election than the those who elect the winners. Something continues to be very wrong with this and now Maude has caught them again.
This is the teaser for the story.
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Away from the spotlight, from September 12 to 14, in Banff Springs, Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day and Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor met with U.S. and Mexican government officials and business leaders to discuss North American integration at the second North American Forum.
According to leaked documents, the guest list included such prominent figures as U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Mexican Secretary of Public Security Eduardo Medina Mora and Canadian Forces chief General Rick Hillier, although we have no final confirmation of attendees.
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Now who do you suppose put this one together? According to Maude Barlow - the shindig was arranged by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives — the elite club of Canada's richest CEOs — and the Canada West Foundation, an Alberta think-tank that promotes, among other things, closer economic integration with the United States.
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The best part is nobody is talking - the government is not going to release the details.
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