Paul Martin Calls for Global Government

Aired on CPAC on February 11th, introduced by Luc Julliet Director of the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs and Allan Rock President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, Mr. Martin authoritatively stated that "the days of independent states are over" and "that in fact we are all going to have to give up a little bit of our sovereignty in order to make the world work." Former Prime Minister Martin also asserted that "we've got to take it one step further" by being responsible for the actions of other countries and by expanding the United Nations. Mr. Martin then went on to blame "inadequate regulations in the United States and Europe" for the current global economic recession and claimed that stronger more broad regulations need to be created along with "international monitoring of financial institutions", "regulations should not only include banks, but it should include hedge funds, private sector funds, rating agencies and that in fact, what has to happen is anybody who is some interest to the financial system has to be included".

In a string of confusing contradicting sentences and in what is best described as "double think", Mr. Martin wants an international body to assure adequate national regulation, but doesn't believe there should be one single global regulator and that individual governments should be able to regulate themselves... but the scope and competence of regulators should be "sanctioned by an international body". In short, it seems as though the former Prime Minister wants a foreign global body to make the decisions, but at the same time give the illusion of power in the nation; all while giving up "a little bit of our sovereignty".

"Its very difficult for a large country to accept that somebody is going to come in, like the United States or like the Europeans, that you're not doing your regulation in a proper way. Fair game. But what's going to happen when China and India are economies as powerful as the United States or Europe? What's going to happen when there's a mortgage meltdown in India? What's going to happen when a Chinese hedge fund goes under, and the results of that tsunami don't stop at the Chinese or Indian border, but that in fact you find them in Idaho, Iowa and California? Who's going to deal with that? Unless we're prepared to understand that in fact we are all going to have to give up a little bit of our sovereignty in order to make the world work. I hope that is also something that the G20 comes to deal with.

So those are the issues that I've got to deal with, I think that we are really at the beginning of a very different era. 1944 the great minds of the world, Harry Dexter White, John Maynard Keynes and a bunch, essentially laid the foundations for the Bretton Woods Institution and the United Nations. They built a system which functioned for over 50 to 60 years, I think that its time to renew that vision. It's a very different world of one made up of independent nation states, who simply came together but could ignore essentially what was going on outside those countries. That day is over. I think we've got to take it one step further and we've got to say that in fact, countries have responsibilities to their neighbours, and their neighbours are in every nook n'crannie of the world. I believe 'that' is going to become the debate of our generation, and it's one that I'm very happy to share with you. Thank you very much."

- Paul Martin at the University of Ottawa
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In 2005 during his time as Prime Minister, along with the leaders of the United States and Mexico, Paul Martin was responsible for ushering in the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Although Mr. Martin denies any allegations that the SPP was a shady and secretive agreement who's purpose was to integrate the three nations into a North American Union without the consent of the public, he does admit that no vote was brought before the Canadian parliament.

Found on the Canadian Action Party website, a political organization dedicated to maintaining Canadian Sovereignty, is a petition which calls for full disclosure and referendum on the SPP and exposes to the public the close deliberate integration of corporation and government.

"10 corporations, each of Canada, the USA and Mexico have been formed into the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) and are actively advising the government on how to proceed with unification. The sovereignty of 3 nations is of no concern to the NACC when there is unlimited growth and money to be made by corporate control of government agendas. When Prime Minister Harper addressed the Council on Foreign Relations on September 25th he stated that he: appreciates the input from these business lobbies; has a problem with "unhealthy nationalism"; will advance NAFTA wherever possible; and will govern by "executive authority" rather than majority votes."

- Canadian Action Party

The former Prime Minister is also a member of the Leaders-20 (L20) project, an organization which advocates international governance and confronts such global issues as climate change and terrorism.

The problems that lead to the current financial crisis lie in the close collusion between corporate and governmental interest, a growing and unquenchable corporate thirst has grown government to a size that should make all informed citizens very uneasy. Such grotesque growth can and will eventually lead to indistinguishable similarities between interests of corporation and government, both on the national and international stage, this is the very definition of fascism. Therefore, big government's problems cannot and will not be solved by bigger government.


Sources:

http://www.cpac.ca/
http://www.l20.org/
http://www.paulmartin.ca/en/
http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/petition1.html
http://www.spp.gov/