http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/general/trans-pacific-partnership en http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/liberals-consulting-and-ignoring-canadians-tpp <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="font-size: 9pt; padding: 5px 0pt; margin: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 15pt; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11px;"><img alt="" src="https://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/350px-width-scale-PREVIEW/node-images/screen_shot_2016-02-03_at_2.56.44_pm.png" style="width: 350px; height: 181px;" /></span></span></span></p> <p style="font-size: 9pt; padding: 5px 0pt; margin: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 15pt; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11px;">From the Rabble.ca blog of Scott Vrooman:</span></span> The Liberals can now ratify the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] any time they want, but in the meantime they say they're <a href="https://www.examiner.com/article/signing-tpp-deal-does-not-mean-ratification-liberals" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 15pt;" target="_blank">"open to consulting with Canadians."</a> Consulting us in the same sense you consult an alarm clock set to 6 a.m. with a giant snooze button.</span></p> <p style="font-size: 9pt; padding: 5px 0pt; margin: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 15pt; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/justin-trudeau-says-liberals-are-pro-trade-offers-no-promises-for-auto-1.3260962" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 15pt;" target="_blank">Justin Trudeau said</a> that the "Liberal Party of Canada is a pro-trade party." As though being against the TPP means you're anti-trade. Anti-TPP is not anti-trade. I'm fine with California oranges. I'm not fine with giving an oil company the power to <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/tpp-would-let-foreign-investors-bypass-the-canadian-public-interest/article27463985/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 15pt;" target="_blank">sue my government</a> over <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-transcanada-keystone-idUSKBN0UK2JG20160107" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 15pt;" target="_blank">rational environmental policy</a>. </span></p> <p style="font-size: 9pt; padding: 5px 0pt; margin: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 15pt; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><a href="https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/scott-vrooman/2016/02/liberals-open-to-consulting-and-ignoring-canadians-on-tpp?utm_content=buffere763f&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">SEE FULL STORY HERE</a></span></p> </div></div></div><div class="service-links"><a href="https://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/liberals-consulting-and-ignoring-canadians-tpp&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=&amp;text=Liberals consulting and ignoring Canadians on TPP?&amp;counturl=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/liberals-consulting-and-ignoring-canadians-tpp" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/liberals-consulting-and-ignoring-canadians-tpp&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=100&amp;height=21&amp;font=&amp;locale=" title="I Like it" class="service-links-facebook-like" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Facebook Like</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php" title="Share this post on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook-widget" rel="http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/liberals-consulting-and-ignoring-canadians-tpp" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/liberal-government" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">LIBERAL GOVERNMENT</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/canada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">canada</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/trans-pacific-partnership" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/scott-vrooman" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">SCOTT VROOMAN</a></div></div></div> Thu, 04 Feb 2016 15:02:46 +0000 Timothy Gillespie 4369 at http://www.southcoasttoday.ca http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/liberals-consulting-and-ignoring-canadians-tpp#comments