Mr. Obama’s is coming to Toronto to make Canadians better Global Citizens:
According to the Toronto Star, Mr. Obama will speak on “global citizenship” at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre on September 29.
EmBee says this about Mr. Obama, global citizenship, and sovereignty:
“Obama is teaching global citizenship not good citizenship. He’s a globalist through and through and globalists see national sovereignty and individual rights as the antithesis of their ideology and worldwide agenda. The USA purports to have been founded on freedom but look at it now … very sad … very scary.”
The title of this post tells you what Mr. Orwell thinks about global citizenship.
—So… who do you believe? EmBee and George Orwell, or Mr. Obama?
Mr. Obama is coming to town.
And former US ambassador to Canada is back – as of our Canada Day 150th, schooling Canadians;
” Canada 2020 is pleased to welcome Bruce A. Heyman, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada to our organization starting July 1, 2017.
His mandate is to help Canada 2020 build on its past in order to become a truly global organization. Throughout the summer and into the fall, he will be leading an effort with our board, advisors and staff to position Canada 2020 for the next 10 years, and beyond. He’ll help us think through our organization’s vision, mission, and yes, even branding (2020 is fast approaching, after all)…….”
http://canada2020.ca/announcement-bruce-heyman-to-join-canada-2020/
Will Canadians never learn?
Someone should ask Canada 2020 if is good ‘global citizenship’ and ‘progressive’ to keep children and those deemed legally incompetent in tax chains for years or forever to a foreign country who claims them outside its borders and deny them the ability to renounce.
And is it progressive to effectively deny the right to choose one’s citizenship by erecting a financial barrier of 2350. USD to renounce/relinquish?
Is it ‘progressive’ to extraterritorially tax Canadians with USstatus on their parentage or birthplace? And tax their RESPs and RDSPs and education and disability grants extraterritorially as ‘taxable foreign trusts? And claim the right to extraterritorially tax Canadian primary homes?
Can we get some Brockers in the audience. Is there an opportunity?
The cost of going to the conference is by table-ten to a table for a total of $10k. I doubt any Brockers will be going.
Canada 2020 is not our friend. Previous post from ADCS WordPress site (though link to ADCS blog does not work for some reason)
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2016/01/31/discussion-at-canada2020-on-canada-foreign-policy-of-interest-in-adcsovereignty-fatca-lawsuit/
John Richardson attended in 2016
I don’t know how any Canadian can fawn over Obama after FATCA. But then I’m biased, believing “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”. Canada 2020 look like just a bunch of brown-nosers to me.
More on them here:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/11/23/liberal-linked-canada-2020-seeks-insulations-amid-cash-for-access-inferno.html
The marketing department probably found that “global citizenship” tested better than “extraterritoriality.”
I remember what disturbed me about the videos was this surprising lack of concern about sovereignty. Particularly as information sharing relates to our situation.
It seems the entire world is so focused on “globalization” without consideration of how invasive this is becoming on all levels. FATCA, CRS, cross-border policing, NSA’s Prism and the Five Eyes etc. And it all seems so over-the-top as if every person on the planet were guilty of terrorism, tax evasion, money-laundering etc. The sad thing is, very few seem willing to put up any resistance to it.
On August 31 the Minister of National Revenue (who we are suing) released a “progress report” on two of the recommendations from the Standing Committee on Finance with regard to tax evasion and tax avoidance.You might find pp 4-7 worth a read. The stated focus is to ensure no treaty or TIEA facilitates bank secrecy. I remember being rather furious to notice that the 2007 protocol to the US-Canada Tax Treaty had clauses claiming that bank secrecy was not a valid reason for refusing to exchange information. How could such a clause be written when PIPEDA existed? Plus, there was never a current version of the Treaty on the government’s site and we were so certain that nothing in the Treaty validated the IGA. After all that went on in 2014 regarding implementation of the IGA, it is interesting that no mention has been made about re-negotiating treaties where rights of Canadians are compromised, as they are in the US-Canada tax treaty. One wonders why they would not think it important enough to ensure that our other tax-deferred savings plans are protected from US taxation. Here is the report .
@Bubblebustin
I am curious where the reporter gets such an idea. ADCS & ADCT are not-for-profit organizations and we most definitely ARE required to make our financial statements public.
If this is true, that they are getting away with this, just another example of how corrupt our government is becoming. Sunny days indeed.
Globalists at work.
To much globalism is killing the world economy.
The great crash in the making will set thigs dow to basics….sovereignety !
A not-for-profit organization that supports human rights has to make its finances public.
A not-for-profit organization that supports politicians’ rights doesn’t have to make its finances public.
Steven Tracy: I’m all for sovereignty when it protects the citizens of smaller, less powerful nations from the maw of monsters. But there is one area I would like to see addressed by the global community followed by the adoption of international (i.e. global) law on the subject. That, of course, is the issue of taxation: who can be taxed by whom.
The reason we are in our current plight is that the United States has asserted its “sovereign right” to tax whoever it wants. The rest of the world has gone along with it, asserting that United States “sovereignty” trumps (forgive me) everybody else’s.
An international conference (where are you, United Nations?) needs to be set up to enact a ban on any form of international taxation that is not based on residence – REAL residence – or territoriality. The notion of “tax residency” is pure nonsense, a bogus, government accountants’ invention.
This is the sort of globalization – global courage, if you will – that I would like to see.
What can Obama teach us about what it means to be a ‘global citizen’? He doesn’t respect the autonomy and sovereignty of Canada or of its borders, its Charter of Rights, its constitution, or its citizens and residents.
He brought citizens around the globe the enforcement of US extraterritorial CBT via the threats embodied in the FBAR, FATCA and OVD – extraterritorial crusades by the US – a foreign government, to enforce US extraterritorial taxation, information reporting demands and penalty structures against individuals living OUTSIDE the borders of the US – the citizens, residents and taxpayers of all the NON-US countries around the globe, including Canada, and demonstrated his core belief that the US alone has the right to tax the taxpayers, citizens and residents of all the rest of the globe – to suck away at our local legal assets generated and held within our own sovereign autonomous borders – as well as laying claim to our Canadian private financial and personal data – in violation of our Charter, legal and constitutional rights. Obama’s extraterritorial crusade was carried out by the US Treasury and IRS with his approval – enshrined in the IGAs they invented which were specifically designed to subvert and thwart our own local laws and legal rights.
What can Obama tell us about ‘global citizenship’ when he was at the helm of a predatory government that asserts extraterritorial claims to the education, disability and other Canadian government created savings and grants and benefits – funded by Canadian taxpayers to ensure the wellbeing and security of Canadian residents, citizens and taxpayers?
What can Obama tell us about ‘global citizenship’ when he was at the helm of a government that raised US citizenship renunciation fees to such extortionate levels that they effectively prevent people from exercising their right as enshrined in US law – to renounce or relinquish unwanted US citizenship; under his government, the fees for renouncing went from $0 to $100. to .450. to the current 2350. USD (AND from ZERO to 2350. in the case of relinquishments) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renunciation_of_citizenshiphttp://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2015/09/06/state-department-extends-us2350-citizenship-renunciation-fee-to-relinquishers/ .
What can someone teach us about citizenship when it was during their reign that their US State Department willfully erected such significant obstructions to renunciation in violation of our international human right to choose our citizenship (#15, no-one shall be “…denied the right to change his nationality. ” http://www.worldservice.org/udhr.html#13 ). Under Obama’s reign, the extortionate hike in renunciation fees were accompanied by a rationing of consular/embassy appointments available to would be renunciants/relinquishers such that the backlog in Toronto started to approach a year’s wait. What does such a person’s actions at the helm of the powerful US government tell us about their view of ‘global citizenship’?
What can someone teach us about ‘global citizenship’ when their past was at the helm of a government that denies minors and those deemed legally incompetent who are citizens and residents of NON-US countries any relief from US imposed citizenship and lifelong US extraterritorial taxation – since those vulnerable groups are denied the US legal right to renounce, or to have a parent or legal guardian renounce on their behalf.
And, from decades of profit made in the private banking and investment sector and then appointment by Obama to a government post as a reward for major party fundraising ( http://taxpol.blogspot.ca/2013/09/how-to-buy-us-ambassadorship-and-how.html , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Heyman ) ; what can ex Goldman Sachs investment banker/private wealth management executive and ex US Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman tell Canadians about what is best for us here in Canada ? Why is a Canadian thinktank hiring an American homelander, starting on our Canada Day 150 ; “…His mandate is to help Canada 2020 build on its past in order to become a truly global organization. Throughout the summer and into the fall, he will be leading an effort with our board, advisors and staff to position Canada 2020 for the next 10 years, and beyond. He’ll help us think through our organization’s vision, mission, and yes, even branding (2020 is fast approaching, after all)….” http://canada2020.ca/announcement-bruce-heyman-to-join-canada-2020/ .
Why would a Canadian think tank hire a “…33-year veteran of Goldman Sachs…” (http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/6-canada-u-s-issues-set-to-dominate-ambassador-bruce-heyman-s-agenda-1.2598913) investment banker with a “..complex investment portfolio” ( http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/chicago-investment-banker-bruce-heyman-to-be-nominated-new-u-s-ambassador-to-canada ) as the best person to ‘advise’ Canadians on our national ‘brand’ and future http://canada2020.ca/announcement-bruce-heyman-to-join-canada-2020/ ?
Neither Obama nor his ambassador honoured or acknowledged our country’s sovereignty and autonomy by exempting or advocating that Canada be exempt from the imposition of US domestic law outside their national jurisdiction and boundaries – the extraterritorial FATCA. Neither acknowledged that FBARing, FATCAing and extraterritorially asserting US extraterritorial tax claims to Canadian-sited persons, assets, property and incomes are an offense against a sovereign autonomous Canada and its residents, citizens and taxpayers.
As demonstrated by public statements (Obama) and silence (Heyman) both of them support actively or tacitly the current US extraterritorial FATCA extortion of our own Canadian taxpayers and accountholders – the waste and abuse of our own local Canadian tax revenues and banking fees in order to pay for the CRA and financial sector enablement and enforcement of Made-in-the-US NON-reciprocal FATCA imposed extraterritorially on Canada . Both support actively or tacitly the US extraterritorial claims on the persons and assets of Canadians without any economic ties to the US who merely had US parentage or birthplace. Both support actively or tacitly the US extraterritorial tax on the sale of Canadian homes by Canadian residents and citizens if they had a US birthplace or parentage.
Ironically both Obama and Heyman had fathers who were immigrants from another continent – Kenya, and Lithuania, but as far as I know, they aren’t reporting their personal and financial information to their parent’s country of origin, and paying extraterritorial taxes to Kenya and Lithuania’s treasury on the basis of their own parent’s birthplace and citizenship.
Past actions are good predictors of future actions – and provide insight into the values and worldview of individuals – what is good for US hegemony and bankers is what I think they can be relied on to prescribe for the citizens of Canada and the rest of the globe.
I think that I can expect that in actual practice (under layers of sonorous and mellifluous rhetoric) Obama and Heyman’s definition of ‘global citizenship’ will mean more about establishing conditions under which the US can continue to use its position of ‘might’ to assert its ‘right’ to demand continued obedience and tribute from the citizens of the rest of the globe.
A correction – ex Ambassador Heyman’s grandfather was from Lithuania. I don’t know what his father’s citizenship was. But regardless, I doubt he would accept that he should pay taxes to Lithuania based on his ancestry. Heyman’s wife Vicke also has ancestors from outside the US, specifically Belarus and possibly Canada; “….Vicki, though born in Cincinnati and raised in Ashland, Ky., had paternal great grandparents, Samuel and Tybae Simons, who left Belarus in the late 19th century to settle, eventually, in Toronto. Four of their six children, in fact, would remain in Toronto but in the early 1920s, Heyman’s grandfather, Charles, and her uncle, Jack, left for Cincinnati to open a barber shop….” https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/a-cultural-envoy-in-canada-us-relations/article26228101/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& . I doubt that she would consider it just if Belarus laid claim to her extraterritorially as a Belarus taxpayer based on her family ancestry.
@ badger
Obama is teaching global citizenship not good citizenship. He’s a globalist through and through and globalists see national sovereignty and individual rights as the antithesis of their ideology and worldwide agenda. The USA purports to have been founded on freedom but look at it now … very sad … very scary.
@Embee, it is very sad and very scary that some Canadians hired a Goldman Sachs investment banker to tell Canadians what they should aspire to.
Very interesting reading the bios of the organization’s participants – Google for more information.
Interesting corporate partner list too.
http://canada2020.ca/about/
That Canada 2020 website is creepy. A real Stepford feel to it.
Or maybe it’s just me. Red pill, blue pill.
No @The Mom, it’s not just you. Whose interests are really being served by that organization, and what is their real goal? I think the choice of their advisor is telling.
CRA has issued a privacy impact statement on the CRS (page Date modified: 2017-08-17);
‘Common Reporting Standard – ITA Part XIX’
International and Large Business Directorate, International, Large Business and Investigations Branch
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/about-canada-revenue-agency-cra/protecting-your-privacy/privacy-impact-assessment/common-reporting-standard-ita-part-xix.html
Here’s the one for the FATCA IGA enforcement (hidden under a title that doesn’t mention FATCA!);
‘Enhanced Financial Account Information Reporting’
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) summary – Individual Returns Directorate, Assessment, Benefit, and Service Branch and International and Large Business Directorate, Compliance Programs Branch
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/about-canada-revenue-agency-cra/protecting-your-privacy/privacy-impact-assessment/privacy-impact-assessment-summary-enhanced-financial-account-information-reporting-individual-returns-directorate-assessment-benefit-service-branch.html
Note re the significance of the numerical risk levels as reported in the documents above;
“…….. The numbered risk scale is presented in an ascending order: the first level (1) represents the lowest level of potential risk for the risk area; the fourth level (4) represents the highest level of potential risk for the given risk area.”……..
https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=18308
‘Privacy Impact Assessment, Directive on’
Admins,
I placed the comment above re the privacy impact assessments of the CRS and FATCA here in error. Not sure though where it should go. Relevant to the lawsuit in terms of harms the FATCA IGA does to Canadian and offense to Charter and constitutional rights – offenses which the IGA seeks to sidestep.
Obama embodies the modern American empire: infiltrate and influence the worldwide legal and financial systems to maintain control over the planet. It is of course done in a seductive manner, glossed over with many reassuring signs, and may in fact be the least of evils. Nevertheless this mindset aims to entangle the whole world in American legalese ultimately to the only benefit of the USA. This is amply illustrated in the now defunct trade agreements such as the transpacific and transatlantic ones. They aim to impose American views on everybody else, in a civilized, voluntary manner — but like with the IGAs it’s never a true negotiation, the US knows what it wants beforehand and it gets it. It is probably much more effective than any other historical means of domination. Again, it is also, perhaps, a lesser evil. Nevertheless for now I prefer Trump right now and his sabotage of globalism.
“A worldwide resistance movement to external control driven by populist activism is threatening to derail the move towards a new world order.” Zbigniew Brzezinski 2012 – former US National Security Advisor
Sounds good to me.
@CarolCanada … sounds good to me too.