Canada's embarrassing second-class status in trade partnership

Syndicated from CCPA on Wed, 2012-06-27

In an opinion piece published in The Tyee and iPolitics, CCPA’s senior trade researcher Scott Sinclair analyzes the extraordinary concessions made by the Canadian government to gain entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. Canada's terms of entry can only be described as demeaning. They set Canadians up to lose big in the high-stakes talks on issues ranging from agricultural supply management and higher drug costs to internet freedom.

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