The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted May 22, 2006
The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together
Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and
economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between
President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.
A joint statement
published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit
announced the formation of an initial entity called, “The Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The joint statement termed the
SPP a “trilateral partnership” that was aimed at producing a North American
security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and
trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners:
We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.
A working agenda was established:
We will establish working parties led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has produced a SPP website, which documents how the
U.S. has implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working
agenda.
Following the March 2005 meeting in Waco, Tex., the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) published in May 2005 a task force report titled “Building a North American Community.” We have already documented that this CFR task force report calls for a
plan to create by 2010 a redefinition of boundaries such that
the primary immigration control will be around the three countries of the North
American Union, not between the three countries. We have argued that a likely
reason President Bush has not secured our border with Mexico is that the
administration is pushing for the establishment of the North American Union.
The North American Union is envisioned to create a super-regional
political authority that could override the sovereignty of the United States on
immigration policy and trade issues. In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Robert Pastor, the Director of the Center for North American Studies at American
University, stated clearly the view that the North American Union would need a
super-regional governance board to make sure the United States does not dominate
the proposed North American Union once it is formed:
NAFTA has failed to create a partnership because North American governments have not changed the way they deal with one another. Dual bilateralism, driven by U.S. power, continue to govern and irritate. Adding a third party to bilateral disputes vastly increases the chance that rules, not power, will resolve problems.
This trilateral approach should be institutionalized in a new North American Advisory Council. Unlike the sprawling and intrusive European Commission, the Commission or Council should be lean, independent, and advisory, composed of 15 distinguished individuals, 5 from each nation. Its principal purpose should be to prepare a North American agenda for leaders to consider at biannual summits and to monitor the implementation of the resulting agreements.
Pastor was a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report
“Building a North American Union.”
Pastor also proposed the creation of a
Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment with the view that “a permanent court
would permit the accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North
American business law.” The intent is for this North American Union Tribunal
would have supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North
American Union, to prevent U.S. power from “irritating” and retarding the
progress of uniting Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21st century
super-regional governing body.
Robert Pastor also advises the creation
of a North American Parliamentary Group to make sure the U.S. Congress does not
impede progress in the envisioned North American Union. He has also called for the creation of a North American Customs and
Immigration Service which would have authority over U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
Pastor’s
2001 book “Toward a North American Community” called for the creation of
a North American Union that would perfect the defects Pastor believes limit the
progress of the European Union. Much of Pastor’s thinking appears aimed at
limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States as we enter this new
super-regional entity. Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency
which he has coined the “Amero,” a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S.
dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.
If President Bush had
run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term
was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the
“Amero,” we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let
alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win re-election. Pursuing any
plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated 12 million illegal aliens
now in the United States could well spell election disaster for the Republican
Party in 2006, especially for the House of Representative where every seat is up
for grabs.