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Gordon Ritchie on CETA and the TPP

Gordon Ritchie, one of the architects of the Canada – U.S. Free Trade Agreement, on CETA and the TPP:

from what I have seen of the proposed deal with the European Community, it is not at all obvious what Canada stands to gain. The benefits are even less clear from Canadian participation in the trans-Pacific Partnership: we already have freer access than other countries to our major trading partner, the United States, and to Mexico.

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  1. Binding us back into behaving like a Proper Colony rather than an independent nation seems to be the main “benefit” intended, no?