Canada blows off TPP

Left them all at the altar of their polygamous wedding. as it were.

Representatives from all the TPP countries were assembled to sign the agreement without the United States. Then suddenly at the very last minute Canada pulled out. They did not show up for the signing. This angered the remaining signing countries.

Here's the thing. We know so little about this trade agreement. In an interview on Democracy Now, with Amy Goodman looking to make Trump seem bad, Julian Assange explained that TPP treaty has twenty-nine different chapters. Four of them have been released.  All the information we have comes from those four chapters and from congressmen who went into a room and read it, without taking notes. The treaty is not formally classified as secret but they're treating it as such. If the congressmen take notes then those notes must be turned over to government for safekeeping. So congressmen don't take any notes. It is very well guarded from the press and from the people and even from congressmen. But 600 U.S. companies are part of the process and they have been given access to various parts of the TPP.

It is the largest economic treaty ever negotiated, much larger than NAFTA. And it's mostly not about trade.

Only five of the twenty-nine chapters are about trade. The others chapters are about regulating labor and what conditions can be applied, they're about regulating and what can be done to favor local industry, even regulating hospital and healthcare systems, and the privatization of hospitals. They're about regulating the internet and internet services, and about the information collected. They're about every aspect of economies including banking services.

Here's the other thing. The United States represented 26.5% of the global economy impacted by TPP while the other eleven nations represented, on average, 1.23% of global economy impacted.

From this we see the TPP is global government masquerading as free trade agreement.

Real free trade means you can sell your stuff here and we can sell our stuff there. Implicit in free trade is free movement of labor.

I have yet to encounter any foreigner on the internet or in life, who is interested in these things who doesn't imagine they can use American power and American wealth better than we can. I've yet to met any who didn't desire to control it. I've even heard them express the logic behind allowing them to vote in our elections because our elections are so important and because our elections impact them. But positing that logic without its corollary of allowing us to vote in their elections.

Viewed through the lens of available chapters, we see that TPP as a way of ceding control of American economy, a way of expanding the senate chamber representatives from foreign countries, a way of creating a global government in fits and starts by giving away American birthright of controlling our own government. American politicians do not like American voters and they'd rather represent the world than represent us. That's what TPP was designed to do, judging by the four chapters available.

Thank you, Trump, for not allowing that to happen. Had Hillary been elected we'd already be on the way to global government.

Canada waited until the signing ceremony, a mere formality after all the work was finalized, to issue a whole round of new demands that could not be met. And now people are guessing what caused this abrupt change of heart.

* Canada has faced major litigation over its trade policies mostly the result of its partnership in NAFTA.  Canada has been sued thirty-nine times by foreign companies claiming Canadian policies violated their rights under NAFTA.

* If NAFTA dissolves then Canada's assumptions about TPP change.

* Because Trump pulled out that changes all the other relationships that countries have with Canada.

* Asian countries use Mexico and Canada for their NAFTA trade setup. So what benefit Canada derives from TPP without NAFTA need to be reassessed.

* Uranium One mess things up. Russia couldn't have done that without Canadian cooperation.

* Saudi Arabian accounts go to Canada.

* Globalist and Uniparty revelations have made Trudeau uncomfortable.