Today the Liberal International Trade Minister signed onto the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement and yeah we’re going to be screwed.  If you like what NAFTA, WTO, etc has done to the Canadian economy (move jobs overseas, enrich corporations) then you’ll love the TPP.

Ministers from the 12 Pacific Rim countries met at Auckland’s Sky City Casino on Thursday morning, local time. The signing ceremony kicks off a two-year ratification period, during which the United States, Japan and at least four of the remaining 10 countries must approve the final legal text in order for the deal to take effect.

Source: CBC

Fitting that the deal would be signed in a casino, another place that screws over people…  There are so many bad points about the TPP and I am very much against free trade.  All I can do is hope that with the upcoming election in the US and in the other countries, that the new administrations do away with this monstrosity because it’s definitely going to be bad for the Western world.