Céline Hervieux-Payette

The Hon. Céline Hervieux-Payette
Senator for Bedford, Quebec
Incumbent
Assumed office March 21, 1995
Appointed by	Jean Chrétien
Preceded by	Paul David
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Mercier
In office 1979–1984
Preceded by	Prosper Boulanger
Succeeded by	Carole Jacques
Personal details
Born	April 22, 1941 (1941-04-22) (age 70) L'Assomption, Quebec
Political party	Liberal
Cabinet	Minister of State (Fitness and Amateur Sport) (1983–1984) Minister of State (Youth) (1984)
Portfolio	Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada (1980–1982) Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (2007–2008)

Céline Hervieux-Payette, PC (born April 22, 1941, L'Assomption, Quebec) is the former Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate, and the first woman ever to hold this position.

In the 1970s, Hervieux-Payette served as a political aide to the Quebec government of Premier Robert Bourassa. She also served as an administrator, as president and commissioner of the Le Gardeur School Board, and director of public relations for Steinberg Inc., a Quebec grocery and department store business.

Hervieux-Payette was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Mercier. She was re-elected in the 1980 election, and became parliamentary secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada. In 1983, she was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to the Canadian Cabinet as Minister of State (Fitness and Amateur Sport). She then served as Minister of State (Youth) from January to June 1984.

She was not appointed to the Cabinet of John Turner who succeeded Trudeau as Liberal leader and prime minister in June 1984. She stood as a candidate in the 1984 election, but was defeated.

She returned to the private sector and served as vice-president, business ventures at the SNC Group, an engineering and manufacturing firm, from 1985 to 1989. From 1991 to 1995, she was Vice-President, Regulatory and Legal Affairs for Fonorola Inc., a telecommunications firm. She has been counsellor for Fasken Martineau DuMoulin since 1995.

Hervieux-Payette attempted to re-enter the House of Commons in the 1988 and 1993 elections but was defeated in both attempts. In 1995, she returned to Parliament when she was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Jean Chrétien. She is expected to remain in the Senate until she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75 in 2016.

On January 18, 2007, Hervieux-Payette was appointed Leader of the Opposition in the Senate by Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, whom she had supported during the leadership race. She also became Quebec lieutenant for Stéphane Dion in October 2007.

On November 3, 2008 she was succeeded as Leader of the Opposition by Jim Cowan.

Model Parliament for North America – Regionalism

The Honourable Liberal Senator, Céline Hervieux-Payette is the self-styled "GODMOTHER"^[1] of the Model Parliament for North America.^[2]

In a document reporting the launch of the Model Parliament for North America in the Senate Chamber of Canada^[3] under her auspices in 2005, the Senator is quoted as having this to say:

"As the 'godmother' of this first inter-parliamentary simulation on North American integration, I am delighted to welcome you to the Senate of Canada. The world of nation states, inherited from the treaties of Westphalia of 1648, seems to be fading in the West. First economic, then financial and now political integration of the countries of Europe gives a strong signal that a new style of regional governance is the way of the future."

The Model Parliament for North America is a project of the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI),^[4] to form an hemispheric union.

Integration is being accomplished via the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP)^[5] (popularly called the "North American Union") entered into on a de facto basis by former Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin, with former U.S. President George Bush and former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, in March 2005.^[6]

However, the SPP is originally a private "initiative" of the multinational corporations forming the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), a non-governmental organization that launched the idea in 2003.^[7] The SPP has been more fully elaborated in a so-called report of an "independent task force" of the CCCE entitled "Building A North American Community",^[8][9] the blueprint for an increasingly united continent. The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE)^[10] is a self-appointed private board of multinational corporations supported by the private, US-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),^[11] of Chatham House^[12] Critics observe that the CFR has controlled US foreign policy for decades, notably by fielding only CFR members into top federal and state posts, both elected and appointed, in the USA, including the office of the President.^[13]

As for "North American Union" – as the fusion of North America is commonly called—Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian Ambassador to the USA and current Executive member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission^[14] declared on video that the events of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York City, were the "provocative agent" for the design of this EU-style "community".^[15] The New American^[16] reports, in a republished piece by the late Vilius Brazenas, re-reported on first publication in 2004 by "FindArticles", that "The New European Soviet: the European Union is rapidly descending into totalitarianism. Under NAFTA and the proposed FTAA, U.S. policymakers have adopted the same socialist EU program".^[17]

The Model Parliament for a "North American Union", the latter which American activist and former Education advisor to the Reagan Administration, and author of the well known "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"^[18] Charlotte Iserbyt, has called "The North American Soviet Union",^[19] has convened annually since 2005, alternating its meeting place among the three North American countries. The Model Parliament draws upon university students from Canada, the USA and Mexico to enact the roles of "legislators", each representing a different state or province of a united North America. As Iserbyt elsewhere notes, "Regionalism is Communism".^[20]

It is therefore important to note that the Model Parliament for North America, as conducted from the outset, envisions not a meeting of the federal Parliament of Canada with the federal Congress of the USA and with that of Mexico, but a meeting of the dismantled provinces of Canada with the dismantled states of the USA and Mexico under a new continental parliament.^[21] This clearly anticipates termination of the Canadian Constitution and Parliament, abolition of the constitutions and respective congresses of the USA and Mexico, and the re-federation of the Canadian Provinces with the American and Mexican states under a new, single, EU-style parliament for the North American continent.

The joint questions of the constitutionality of the Model Parliament for North America, the future continental parliament, and the merger of Canada into the USA and Mexico, to eliminate the Constitution of Canada, have yet to come before the Courts of Canada. However, an excerpt from s. 31 of the Constitution Act, 1867 of Canada (previously titled the British North America Act, 1867),^[22] suggests some scope for the type of court action that might be expected:

"Disqualification of Senators 31. The Place of a Senator shall become vacant in any of the following Cases: (2) If he takes an Oath or makes a Declaration or Acknowledgment of Allegiance, Obedience, or Adherence to a Foreign Power, or does an Act whereby he becomes a Subject or Citizen, or entitled to the Rights or Privileges of a Subject or Citizen, of a Foreign Power"

Controversy

Hervieux-Payette became involved in controversy in March 2006 when she responded to an American couple's letter to all Canadian Senators protesting the annual seal hunt in Newfoundland. The American, Anne McLellan, told Canadian television channel, CTV Television Network, that herfamily cancelled plans to vacation in Canada, describing the seal hunt as "appalling".

In her responding letter, Hervieux-Payette wrote that what she finds horrible is "the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners – mainly blacks – in American prisons, the massive sale of handguns to Americans, and the destabilization of the entire world by the American government's aggressive foreign policy, etc."

She later clarified her remarks, arguing that Americans should worry about their own country's behaviour before pointing fingers at other nations. Bill Graham, leader of the Liberal official opposition, subsequently issued a statement saying that the letter "reflect her personal opinions and not those of the Liberal Party of Canada."^[23]

On April 23, 2009, Hervieux-Payette unveiled the Universal Declaration on the Ethical Harvest of Seals, seeking support from countries, NGO's and scientists to establish universal standards on seal harvest.

References

1. ^ http://www.fina-nafi.org/eng/triumvirat/documents/Programme-FINAL-Anglais_000.pdf "Welcome from the Honourable Céline Hervieux-Payette, PC" (backup at http://en.calameo.com/books/00011179021d684c722e6)
2. ^ http://www.fina-nafi.org/eng/triumvirat/default.asp?langue=eng&menu=triumvirat First North American Model Parliament / North American Forum on Integration (2005)
3. ^ http://www.fina-nafi.org/eng/triumvirat/documents/Programme-FINAL-Anglais_000.pdf First North American Model Parliament / North American Forum on Integration (2005): "Welcome from the Honourable Céline Hervieux-Payette, PC" (backup at http://en.calameo.com/books/00011179021d684c722e6)
4. ^ "(NAFINA – North American Forum on Integration) the self-appointed planning commission for a continental parliament intended to replace the Parliament of Canada, the Congress of the USA and that of Mexico. Canada, the USA and Mexico are to be merged into an EU-style union under a new, EU-style parliament, eventually linking up with South American Union (UNASUR) signed on 23 May 2008,[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations UNASUR – Union of South American Nations". Fina-nafi.org. http://www.fina-nafi.org/. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
5. ^ http://www.spp.gov/ Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) (Archive of the original SPP.GOV site, backed up on September 18, 2010, is available for download at a choice of two url's: [i] http://www.mediafire.com/?qf8ax2bj8ayh8ry -and- [ii] http://www.mediafire.com/file/qf8ax2bj8ayh8ry/SPP-archive-site.zip (Unzipped, the folder is about 19MB.) The "Government of Canada" SPP site is here: English: http://www.spp-psp.gc.ca/eic/site/spp-psp.nsf/eng/home Main entry: http://www.spp-psp.gc.ca/
6. ^ "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America – About SPP". Spp-psp.gc.ca. May 13, 2009. http://www.spp-psp.gc.ca/eic/site/spp-psp.nsf/eng/h_00003.html. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
7. ^ North American Security and Prosperity Initiative (NASPI) January, 2003^{[dead link]}
8. ^ "83799$CH2A" (PDF). http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
9. ^ Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE)^{[dead link]}
10. ^ "Building A North American Community". Cfr.org. http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
11. ^ "Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) a sister organization[http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/history/ Chatham House History (CFR, sister institute)". CFR. http://www.cfr.org/. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
12. ^ "Independent Thinking on International Affairs in London, England, the latter otherwise known as the Royal Institute for International Affairs, and of which Queen Elizabeth the IInd is the patron.[http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/council/ Patron, Presidents, Council and Directors (Patron, Queen Elizabeth II)". Chatham House. http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
13. ^ "The Council on Foreign Relations And the Trilateral Commission, The two organizations that run the United States by Melvin Sickler". Prolognet.qc.ca. March 21, 1978. http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/cfr.html. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
14. ^ "Allan Gotlieb is current Deputy Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, for the "North American Region"". Trilateral.org. http://www.trilateral.org/go.cfm?do=Page.View&pid=12. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
15. ^ om een reactie te plaatsen! (June 14, 2010). "Allan Gotlieb declares 9/11 "provocative agent" behind idea to form a North American Union (NAU); this is a highlight from a full-length video interview by Pressfortruth.ca: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PENw3n_TLjo "The North American Union: Allan Gotlieb") Both critics and proponents of the European Union system have likened it to the "new European Soviet" (Gorbachev)http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JZS/is_18_20/ai_n25095870/ "When former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev visited Britain in 2000, he accurately described the European Union as "the new European Soviet." Original url: http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/4826-the-qnew-european-sovietq and to "the old Soviet model in western guise" (Vladimir Bukovsky).[http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09052211.html EU the new Soviet Union: Russian Gulag Survivor by Hilary White, Friday 22 May 2009". Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oph_HsDVw8w. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
16. ^ http://www.thenewamerican.com/ The New American
17. ^ "The "New European Soviet": the European Union is rapidly descending into totalitarianism. Under NAFTA and the proposed FTAA, U.S. policymakers have adopted the same socialist EU program | New American, The". Find Articles. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JZS/is_18_20/ai_n25095870/. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
18. ^ "(free download of e-book, previously published by 3d Research Company in September 1999)[http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0966707109 and still available in print as a pre-owned book at Amazon". Deliberatedumbingdown.com. http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
19. ^ ""The North American Soviet Union" by Charlotte Iserbyt, News With Views, 27 February 2007". Newswithviews.com. http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt36.htm. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
20. ^ ""Regionalism is Communism" Charlotte Iserbyt, News With Views, 4 February 2004". Newswithviews.com. November 2, 1987. http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt13.htm. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
21. ^ "Triumvirat First North American Model Parliament, North American Forum on Integration". Fina-nafi.org. May 23, 2005. http://www.fina-nafi.org/eng/triumvirat/medias.asp?langue=eng&menu=triumvirat. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
22. ^ http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/const/const1867.html -and- http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/index.html
23. ^ "Seal hunt pales next to Iraq slaughter: senator (with news video)". Ctv.ca. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060317/seal_hunt_060317/20060317?hub=Canada. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 

External links

• The Senator Hervieux-Payette's website
• Céline Hervieux-Payette - Parliament of Canada biography
• Liberal Senate Forum
• Senator fires back at U.S. family upset with seal hunt

Government offices
Preceded by Dan Hays	Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada 2007–2008	Succeeded by Jim Cowan
Party political offices
Preceded by Marcel Proulx	Quebec lieutenant for the Leader of the Liberal Party 2008–2009	Succeeded by Denis Coderre

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Name	Hervieux-Payette, Celine
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Date of birth	April 22, 1941
Place of birth	L'Assomption, Quebec
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