Touring doc plans a Mission screening

What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens? rights have in common? The Security and Prosperity Partnership.

Filmmaker Paul Manly Paul will be attending a Mission screening of his documentary about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, “You, Me and the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule? as part of a 38-city national tour.

The screening takes place Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel room at Rockwell’s Bar and Grill (at the Best Western Hotel), 32281 Lougheeed Hwy., Mission. Admission is by donation.

The screening, hosted by Cinema Politica Fraser Valley, will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Paul Manly. The full tour schedule is available online at www.youmespp.com

Manly first grabbed the world’s attention after capturing three police provocateurs attempting to thwart protestors’ legal rights by inciting violence at the protest against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) leaders summit in Montebello, Quebec in 2007.

This compelling footage was posted on Youtube where it was seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world and quickly became a national and international news story.

Manly, who had started research and preliminary interviews for a documentary about the SPP two months earlier, was shocked by what he had captured on video but what was even more shocking to him was the scope of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and how almost everyone he talked to knew nothing about it.

The Canadian government says “The Security and Prosperity Partnership is neither an agreement nor a treaty but a dialogue.”

Following the shock of 9/11, right-wing political and business leaders have pushed the SPP agenda. Negotiating away from public scrutiny, they say it is the way to keep trade flowing between the United States, Canada and Mexico. You, Me and the SPP exposes the corporate agenda of the SPP and reveals that this secretive agreement is about much more than trade.

Opponents of this secretive ‘dialogue’ claim it is undemocratic and a direct threat to the sovereignty of the three countries involved: Canada, the United States and Mexico. It bypasses their parliamentary systems and places control of regulatory integration in the hands of large corporations. The film features interviews with Naomi Klein, Maude Barlow, Murray Dobbin and Joel Bakan, among a host of other opponents of the SPP.

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