Trudeau mum on next Three Amigos Summit as Trump could campaign against trade agreements

Eliyahu Tulshinski

November 29, 2023

North America is far behind Europe when it comes to so-called regional integration, but the setbacks along the way should not be confused with an abandonment of the goal of an EU-like superstate in the Americas.

EU model

Twenty EU nations now use the Euro as their official currency and 27 European states have no regular border checks between them. Instead, border control officers operate only on the outer perimeter (the Schengen Area) of the passport-free superstate.

This is not just about visiting tourists. The EU permits each of its citizens to work wherever they want throughout the 27-nation superstate:

As an EU national you generally don't need a work permit to work anywhere in the EU. Work permits are never required for self-employed people in the EU. [Emphasis added].

U.S. a thorn in the side of globalism

Enjoying average incomes far beyond that of the hundreds of millions of residents of Central and South America, U.S. citizens stand to lose economically more than any other nation if North American partners were to join with the South American regional government and adopt an EU-style removal of national borders and automatic work authorization for any person living in the Americas. U.S. citizens would suddenly be competing in the job market with people used to a minimum wage of $817 a year.

The disparity in the standard of living between the United States and countries to the south of the border means that opening the borders would lead to a loss in the standard of living through what academics call “wage convergence,” whereby the market finds a middle ground between wages in wealthier and less wealthy nations, as described previously by Frontline News.

Thus, despite many attempts to further ensnare the United States into regional agreements, the nation maintains some semblance of southern border control, maintains full control of its northern border, and does not officially sanction employment of illegal workers.

Three Amigos Summit

Despite the resistance, efforts to engage the United States in so-called free trade agreements, which are actually thousands of pages of political agreements, never actually cease. Even President Trump's refusal to join the Three Amigos Summit, also known as the North American Leaders' Summit (NALS), throughout his presidency, was considered a mere delay.

Joe Biden hosted the summit in his very first year in office and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador brought Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Mexico City for a 2023 summit. The meeting produced the Declaration of North America (DNA), which was summed up by Fox Business as an international agreement weakening the United States through increased diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] programming, climate regulations, and illegal immigration. As Fox Business stated:

[T]he White House released what they're calling a "Declaration of North America" this is at the conclusion of the tenth North American Leaders' Summit.

They've created six pillars, allegedly to maintain regional security. Now, here's the order of these pillars, none of which address tariffs or free trade.

First pillar: diversity, equity and inclusion.

Second pillar: climate change and environment.

Third pillar: competitiveness.

And then, maybe fourth pillar: migration and development. But, wait a minute. Even at fourth place, migration and development doesn't mean what you might hope it means.

They're talking about welcoming record numbers of migrants and refugees. They’re talking about promoting migrant and refugee integration. They’re talking about protection for them. More asylum capacity. Expanding and promoting regular pathways. Then collaborating to counter xenophobia and discrimination.

What?! You think I'm making this up? I'm not. I'm reading from this White House release. [Emphases added].

Fox Business also quotes Biden, speaking from the summit, pushing increased illegal immigration:

This has been the greatest migration in human history around the world as well as in this hemisphere. We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here – opening up the capacity to get here. [Emphasis added].

De facto superstate

The millions of illegals entering the nation, including many who also break the law by working illegally, drive down wages such that the “convergence” with Mexican wages happens to a large extent even without Congress passing freedom to work laws permitting Mexican citizens to work in the U.S.

Damage already done

The illegal immigration not only creates a de facto granting of work permits to millions of Mexican citizens, since so few illegal immigrants are deported or jailed for working illegally, but it also reduces the eventual negative effect of integration with Mexico, since much of the expected wage suppression and subsequent drop in the standard of living is already realized.

Afraid to announce next “Amigos” meeting

Politico notes that Canada is next in the rotation to host the regional summit but is delaying an announcement about the next gathering to avoid lessening the chances of victory for pro-integration candidates standing for election this year (in an apparent acknowledgment of the unpopularity of regional government):

It’s Canada’s turn to host the “Three Amigos” this year but the Prime Minister’s Office isn’t ready to talk details . . .

— Plenty to discuss: This year’s summit would offer officials a timely forum where they could exchange notes on preparing for a global trade war should DONALD TRUMP return to power and make good on his promise to bring in a universal tax on “most imported goods.”

Trump famously skipped the summit as president and put the “Three Amigos” on hiatus . . .

Mexican President ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR’s six-year term limit will end this year after Mexico heads to the polls in June. Then, in November, America will vote on the fate of incumbent President JOE BIDEN.

Against this backdrop, TRUDEAU’s team hasn’t made a peep about NALS.

Fear mongering

Politico follows up its report on the hesitancy of Trudeau to push the Three Amigos Summit with a quote from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce president expressing concern about alleged damage that may be caused if the three North American nations do not stay the course towards regional integration by continuing to promote the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (USMCA), which succeeded NAFTA, and serves as the basis for political integration between the nations:

Meanwhile, the PM’s inbox continues to attract letters including one from Canadian Chamber of Commerce President PERRIN BEATTY, warning of the “serious implications” if the U.S. election morphs into a who-is-more-protectionist contest. [Emphasis added].

[Beatty] alluded to the make-or-break scheduled review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement in 2026 — and urged Ottawa to resist being “reactive and unfocused” laggards.

“Canada should be preparing the ground now through a coordinated outreach campaign by all levels of government and the private sector to demonstrate to America’s citizens why a healthy relationship with Canada is important to them,” Beatty wrote in an open letter to Trudeau dated Dec. 29.

When Beatty says USMCA will promote a “healthy relationship” between the U.S. and Canada, he fails to mention that Mexico is part of the regional agreement; the fear of lowered wages is a stumbling block for partnership with the southern neighbor that he'd rather ignore.

Why the push for a North American super-state?

The New American pointed out that the DNA “is a recitation of all the goals of the progressive Left" and that “[i]ncreased governmental power — at both the national and international level — in the name of combating “climate change” also permeates the document.” The John Birch Society publication went on, though, to paint the bigger picture behind regional agreements:

A world government founded on socialist principles was an idea promoted by Karl Marx and his fellow communists. In the 19th century, there was an international movement to centralize the governments of the world’s nations. We saw this in Italy, with the Young Italy movement, and we saw this in Germany, which united the historically independent German states. And, of course, we saw it in the United States itself, as the federal government took over more and more duties and powers that the Constitution had left to the states. Marx approved of this, and many Marxists, after failing to overthrow the governments of Europe in 1848, fled to the United States, where they supported the movement to a more-centralized federal government.

As part of this move to a world government, these more-centralized national governments are now joining with neighboring national governments to form regional governments. This is what this DNA is all about, as can be seen by the goals expressed in the document. This is what has happened in Europe, with the creation of the European Union (EU). [Emphases added].

In short, the transition to one global socialist government has proven exceedingly difficult to advance among nations boasting free market and individual rights. The three-step process to overcome opposition from the free world is then to:

Make free nations more collectivist, through domestic policy or revolution;
Integrate those collectivist nations into regional governments; and
Merge those regional governments into a world government - the ultimate collectivist state.

Deception

Globalists have therefore long pushed a move toward regional governments, described initially as mere free trade zones before they morph into political entanglements, as occurred with the EU, which began as the “Coal and Steel” agreement and then the European Economic Community.

This deception was described in an earlier piece by The New American:

The Deep State’s globalist plan for what insiders refer to as the “New World Order” — basically, a global government controlled by themselves — begins with submerging the sovereignty of nation-states into regional “orders.”

These are better understood as regional governments built using “free trade” deals as the foundation, with the European Union serving as the premier example. How do we know this is the plan? Because top Deep State globalists have said so publicly and repeatedly, and because that is the exact strategy being pursued openly.

All over the world, pseudo-“free trade” agreements and other sovereignty-shredding schemes are being used to transfer more and more power to transnational bureaucracies and courts.

And eventually, these regional orders will be interwoven into an overlapping patchwork of multilateral regimes on the road to creating a truly global authority, perhaps under the United Nations or some less-discredited future global body. . . . [Emphases added].

Deep State pushing agenda with taxpayer-funded salaries

A high-ranking State Department official clarified, way back in 1974, that regional government is in fact only a short-term goal.

“In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down,” wrote former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Richard N. Gardner in April of 1974. “An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”

In short, globalists recognized the reality that people were not willing to relinquish control over their own nations and their own destinies all at once. Instead, the plan would have to be pursued slowly, quietly, and deceptively. And so, piece by piece, sovereignty was eroded using tools such as “free trade,” international agreements, regional military alliances such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and more. Central to the plot was convincing nations and peoples to surrender sovereignty not to some global government-in-waiting right away, but to regional organizations. [Emphasis added].

Henry Kissinger, who reached the highest level of the State Department, echoed Gardner.

“The contemporary quest for world order will require a coherent strategy to establish a concept of order within the various regions and to relate these regional orders to one another,” Kissinger explained in an excerpt from his book World Order that appeared on August 29, 2014, under the headline “Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order” in the Wall Street Journal.

Defining the regions

The main regional agreements and initiatives include the following:

Americas:

United States of America, Mexico, and Canada Agreement (USMCA )
Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
Union of South American States

Africa and Middle East

African Union
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Economic Summits

Europe

European Union

Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Only when each of the main regions of the world has sufficiently relinquished sovereignty to these or other variations of regional governments will those regions negotiate the terms of their entrance into a global government.

What to expect

Citizens of nations invited to join the Brussels Pact in post-World War II Europe were not informed they would be sacrificing their nations' sovereignty as the pact grew in scope. Americans can likewise expect to be kept in the dark about the ultimate intentions of the planners behind USMCA, the Three Amigos Summit, the TPP, and the rest of the so-called trade agreements. They would be well served by keeping in mind the possibility that freedom to work throughout the Americas, and a concomitant erosion of wages, is on the menu.

See our previous coverage of the globalist agenda and Vivek Ramaswamy's support for trade agreements: