The Conservatives are keeping secret the draft text of a sweeping free trade agreement Canada is negotiating with a dozen Pacific Rim countries, despite the fact that any U.S. congress member can access the document, the NDP says.
“If the U.S. can allow its legislators to see the TPP text, there is no reason that Canada can’t,” NDP trade critic Don Davies said in a statement.
The latest round of negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) opened in Brunei last week and runs to the end of the month. Canada joined the talks in 2012 after years of lobbying.
If finalized , the deal would create a free trade area that would cover Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam, along with Canada.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/29/trans-pacific-partnership-canada-tpp_n_3838000.html
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