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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of CBC News (Canada's public broadcasting system)


CBC News (Canada's public broadcasting system), June 20, 2012
Posted: July 10th, 2012
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/06/20/f-trans-pacifi...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may soon be an acronym as recognizable as NAFTA but this free trade venture could have much more economic strength and impact than its North American predecessor. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a free trade deal aimed at further expanding the flow of goods, services and capital across borders. Its four founding members New Zealand, Chile, Singapore and Brunei soon caught the attention of five other nations: the United States, Australia, Peru, Vietnam and Malaysia, who joined in 2008. The nine partners currently have a combined GDP of more than $17 trillion. Canada and Mexico are now being considered for membership, subject to the approval of the nine countries already involved. Add to this the possibility that Japan could join the TPP, despite mounting protests in that country, and the economic and political traction of the group increases. In fact, the TPP could become the world's largest free-trade zone. "It's really a trade agreement for the one per cent and their corporate interests," said Maude Barlow, the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, which opposed and continues to criticize NAFTA. "This is not going to be a good deal for Canadians."

Note: A later Toronto Star article reveals that the agreements of the TPP are secret.


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