Scary scenarios (1): a potential fifth column?
(Canscene) — The recent speculations that Canada’s Atomic Energy Corporation Limited might be handed on a platter to General Electric, a U.S.– controlled company, is further disturbing evidence of important Canadian business resources being gobbled up by foreign corporations.
In the event of power one day falling into the hands of a government even farther to the right than the Bush administration, the U.S. controlled branch operations in Canada would provide a ready-made “fifth column” of support for what would be an inevitable push to make Canada the 51st state:
(Note) For three years during the Spanish Civil War, Madrid was under siege by Generalissimo Franco’s fascist rebels. A Franco general had boasted that as well as four military columns advancing on Madrid, there was a fifth column of fascist supporters inside the city.
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