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[Topaz]

Most ppl haven't heard much about what is in the agreement but the following link will tell u the agreement is going after the internet and one item in it , if someone downloads something they aren't suppose to, like a movie or music, u can have your computer taken away. No wonder 68% of Canadians are saying no to the TTP. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-final-leaked-secret-tpp-text-is-all-that-we-feared-top-down-control-of-the-internet/5481702

[Topaz]

IF the agreement of what it does for the internet doesn't make u question the agreement than information saying certain rights like Human and workers, will be at the hand of corporations and governments will have little to do with it. Sound like the action of the One World Order of Corporation being in charged over governments. Obama is for it but Congress is not and I hope the Liberals here think 3X before signing it into law and perhaps not signing at all. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ttp-and-ttip-trade-agreements-a-dystopian-future-in-which-corporations-rather-than-elected-governments-call-the-shots/5447643

[cybercoma]

Do you mean the TPP?

[bush_cheney2004]

....Obama is for it but Congress is not and I hope the Liberals here think 3X before signing it into law and perhaps not signing at all.

Obama won't even be president if it ever comes up for a vote. The U.S. Congress can't save Canada from Liberal party decisions.

[ReeferMadness]

Global Research is an iffy source but in this case there are real issues.

Anyone who wants to see a scholarly review of the literally dozens of serious issues with the TPP should read Professor Michael Geist's blogs on the topic. This is a deeply flawed agreement for Canada.

Geist is not only a University of Ottawa law professor but holds the Canada Research Chair on Internet and E-Commerce Law. One might think it would have a been a good idea to have his expertise on the negotiations team but the ideologues in the Harper regime no doubt were so enamored with the magical abilities of free markets to solve all problems that they didn't need any help.

Another opponent of the TPP is RIM co-founder Jim Balsillie who believes that the agreement would be disastrous for Canadian innovators. He said that the agreement will help lock in Canada's 19th century economy of digging commodities out of the ground.

I guess people who thought Harper's focus on scraping sludge out of Northeastern Alberta was genius are probably not too worried about this.

[Topaz]

I've read other websites that doesn't care for the this agreement and sometimes one has to wonder if some of these leaders are getting paid under the table to sign some of these agreements. The taxpayers, consumers, workers are always the ones that are affect by these kind of agreements and people NEED to do their own research become most governments keep too many secrets.

[ReeferMadness]

These agreements are negotiated in secret between governments with business leaders getting privileged access. Given Harper's market fundamentalist and commodity-focused stance, it's not surprising that the agreement does nothing for innovative business in Canada.