Liberals, NDP decline PCO offer to view Trans-Pacific Partnership deal details
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I can't quite figure out why they wouldn't want to see it? They say it's because they would have had to sign a confidentiality agreement and Canadians should know. But what difference would it make if they found out or not? The government isn't going to tell us yet either way, so if the party leaders can find out, why not? Is it because they think it makes them complicit? What are the political calculations going into this?
I suspect parliamentary privilege would allow them to violate that confidentiality agreement anyway.
I suspect parliamentary privilege would allow them to violate that confidentiality agreement anyway.
If he did not offer to show it, I am also sure you would be ragging on Harper for being secretive.
You mean physically in the house or members of it? Because all of them are MPs.
Isn't being insolent to a Tory sort of like slapping at a bug?calm down son. it's just libs and dippers being insolent. :lol:
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I am included in briefing. I was only leader to participate in the 1st #TPP briefing. #GPC #elxn42 @CanadianGreens @Politicolnews @PnPCBC
Let me guess, it is a list of things we can import and the 'list of things other people want' is so short if it was any shorter it couldn't be called a 'list' at all.
. . . or killing one mosquito in the swamp and saying 'eradication of mosquitoes' mission is complete.
What is there to know that they Libs or Dippers don't already know?
This will be Govt #4 at the helm of a long term project to open western Canadian food, resources that are both renewable and finite and open eastern industry to Asian markets.
None of the parties have any plans on stymying any the aspects of this goal including energy exports by sea.
Piece by piece, decade by decade the future of western ports and infrastructure is being built.
This program is why the lower mainland is being transformed. The evidence is all around you. Embrace it or waste a lot of effort in futility. You best bet is to give in and accept your future.
Parafoil and besides, BASE jumping is illegal.
A parafoil is a nonrigid (textile) airfoil with an aerodynamic cell structure which is inflated by the wind. Ram-air inflation forces the parafoil into a classic wing cross-section. Parafoils are most commonly constructed out of ripstop nylon.
Well, I cannot really blame them. I mean even lawyers have to balk at seeing interminable pages of legalese sometimes.
Lawyer says: “Know all persons by these present that I hereby give, grant, release, convey, transfer and quitclaim all my right, title, interest, benefit and use whatsoever in, or and concerning this chattel, otherwise known as an orange, or citrus aurantium, together with all the appurtenances thereto of skin, pulp, pip, rind, seeds and juice to have and to hold the said orange, for his own use and behoof, to himself and his heirs, in fee simple forever, free from all liens, encumbrances, easements, limitations, restraints or conditions whatsoever, any and all prior deeds, transfer, or other documents whatsoever, now or anywhere made to the contrary notwithstanding, with full power to bite, cut, suck or otherwise eat the said orange or to give away the same, with or without its skin, pulp, pip, rind, seeds or juice.”
Amie Average says: "Here, have an orange".
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Isn't revealing contents of TPP this late in the game pretty much the same as inviting someone to see the horse after it's already bolted?
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By "controversial" you mean a point of intense debate during an election, but not much of a fight after one.
NEWS 1130 Verified account @NEWS1130 The federal gov't says it will sign the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal at a meeting next week in New Zealand. #TPP