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.
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