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Activists take on ’NAFTA on steroids’
2-Jul-2012 CWA
"The 1% has total access to all negotiating documents, while the 99% is shut out. This is not what democracy looks like," said CWA President Larry Cohen.
Stop the TPP
29-Jun-2012 The Nation
Learning and action points for a US audience
Playing chicken with supply management
26-Jun-2012 Guelph Mercury
The Dairy Farmers of Canada believe Harper’s promise and fully expect Canada to emerge from the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks with the protected market and paid-for quota systems intact. To an outsider, it’s difficult to see how this could happen.
Foreign lawsuits already a threat
25-Jun-2012 Stuff
As activists and the Government clash over the alleged inclusion of investor protections in the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, a legal expert says many foreign investors already have that right
The TPP: Selling out Canadians, one ’trade deal’ at a time
22-Jun-2012 NUPGE
We will be told, of course, that this deal too will enhance trade, will enrich Canadians and will be good for our economy. All of this we will be expected to swallow whole. If this deal follows the usual pattern, none of it will be true.
Canada nears deal for entry into prized Pacific trade talks
19-Jun-2012 Globe and Mail
The Harper government and the Obama administration are closing in on a deal that would see Washington support Canada’s admission to major Pacific Rim free-trade talks, The Globe and Mail has learned
Mexico invited to join US-backed Pacific free trade agreement talks
19-Jun-2012 The Hill
The United States formally announced Monday that Mexico has been invited to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks.
Canada to reveal next step in closer China trade ties
19-Jun-2012
Canada is set to announce it has completed an important step toward closer trade ties with China, CBC News has learned.
Gordon Campbell on the leaks about the Trans Pacific Partnership
15-Jun-2012
The leaked document on the US Public Citizen website confirm the worst fears about the Trans Pacific Partnership talks. The leaked text, and Public Citizen’s analysis of the text can be accessed here.
Romney: Ban Japan from free trade talks
15-Jun-2012 The Detroit News
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn’t support including Japan in free-trade talks, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Breaking ’08 pledge, leaked trade doc shows Obama wants to help corporations avoid regulations
14-Jun-2012 DN!
A draft agreement leaked Wednesday shows the Obama administration is pushing a secretive trade agreement that could vastly expand corporate power and directly contradict a 2008 campaign promise by President Obama.
Leaked draft of trade deal exposes risks - professor
13-Jun-2012
The Trans Pacific Partnership agreement being negotiated at present would open up New Zealand Governments to litigation for tightening regulations in such areas as gas and oil and exploration or even introducing a capital gains tax, according to Professor Jane Kelsey of Auckland University.
TPP - draft investment chapter (June 2012)
13-Jun-2012 Public Citizen
Obama trade document leaked, revealing new corporate powers and broken campaign promises
13-Jun-2012 Huffington Post
A critical document from President Barack Obama’s free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.
White House pressured in DC to admit Canada to Trans-Pacific trade talks
9-Jun-2012 The Canadian Press
Canada’s absence from talks on a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement has been dominating bilateral chatter in the US capital with the Obama administration under pressure to welcome Canadians to the negotiating table.
Ensuring Free Trade Agreements don’t impede access to HIV treatments
1-Jun-2012
The UN’s top agency for HIV-AIDS has warned that million of lives could be at risk, if intellectual property and other trade agreements impede access to treatment.
Rushing to finish a global free-trade deal
1-Jun-2012 Businessweek
To avoid gridlock over a major free-trade pact, the US and eight other Pacific nations have told Japan, Canada, and Mexico to wait.
PIJIP trade agreement table updated: Compares TPP, ACTA, TRIPS, US-Chile FTA
25-May-2012 Infojustice
New comparative analysis shows that TPP contains a plethora of TRIPS-plus provisions as well as ACTA-plus and Chile FTA-plus provisions.
Mexico to Japan: Participate in TPP talks
25-May-2012 Japan Times
Mexico would welcome Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks because it would help make the free-trade pact "a very important actor" in the international community, Mexican Ambassador to Japan Claude Heller said.
Secrets revealed: The Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement
23-May-2012 Huffington Post
Tight-lipped police officers and security guards: not exactly what I expected to see when I walked onto the second floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison, Texas where trade negotiators convened last week.