Why Reject the SPP – Our Core Values are Divergent from the US by Janet M Eaton - Vive

Why Reject the SPP – Our Core Values are Divergent from the US by Janet M Eaton - Vive

"Why Reject the SPP - Our Core Values are Widely Divergent from the US" by Janet M Eaton, July 1, 2008.

Bruce Chapman in a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives presentation cautions that we should be wary of ‘Faustian Bargains’ in going down the deep integration road with Uncle Sam and he notes that this is not about moral superiority or anti-Americanism but rather about the values that have shaped and defined us.

"It is simply that we have different values and interests. We want to be able to reaffirm and preserve our founding myths, our historicial experiences, and the values that have shaped and defined us."

Maude Barlow writing in The Canada We Want: What’s the Big Idea reminds us of our origins and how different our narrative is from our neigbours.

"To adopt a policy of deep integration would mean turning our backs on Canadian history, on our own narrative. In order to survive our ancestors created a country on the northern half of the continent of 'sharing for surival' fundamentally different from the American narrative of 'the survival of the fittest.' Generations of Canadians have been linked together across this great land with 'ribbons of interdependence' such as our national social programs, Medicare, out marketing boards, our policies of multiculturalism and bilingualism and the CBC. "