North American Community
Pastor's advocacy of North American integration has been the subject of heated controversy, with individuals like Jerome Corsi calling him the Father of a North American Union. While Pastor has refuted any advocacy of a NAU, he does propose a North American Community, "whose premise is that all three sovereign countries benefit when each of the countries makes progress, and all suffer when one fails". He distinguishes this community from a union as being, "composed of three sovereign governments that seek to strengthen bonds of cooperation. Each government – according to its constitutional procedures – retains the power to decide whether and how to cooperate".
Pastor is featured in the 2010 Canadian documentary film Water On The Table, in which he refers to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and debates water rights issues.
Read more about this topic: Robert Pastor
Famous quotes containing the words north, american and/or community:
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
“Give me this day a faith not personal
As follows: The American people fully armed
With assurance policies, righteous and harmed,
Battle the world of which they’re not at all.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)