{"id":13434,"date":"2015-10-15T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13434"},"modified":"2015-10-15T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:51:18","slug":"trans-pacific-partnership-text-wont-be-available-before-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13434","title":{"rendered":"Trans-Pacific Partnership text won&#8217;t be available before election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"wrap12 story-head\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"colfull\">\n<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-election-2015-tpp-text-release-delay-1.3270806\" target=\"_blank\">Trans-Pacific Partnership text won&#8217;t be available before election<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Government officials say haggling by lawyers from 12 countries delaying release of trade agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"small lighttext\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/thumbnails.cbc.ca\/maven_legacy\/thumbnails\/506\/111\/PPfast2_2500kbps_852x480_2677127359.jpg\" alt=\"Media placeholder\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap8 story-primary\">\n<div id=\"leadmedia\" class=\"story-leadmedia col8\">\n<div class=\"figure\">\n<div id=\"player2677127587\" class=\"cbc-caffeine col8width\" data-playerid=\"caffeine13271615\">\n<div id=\"container58383380\" class=\"cbc-caffeine-outer-container\">\n<div id=\"Caffeinecaffeine13271615\" class=\"cbc-caffeine-player\">\n<div id=\"CaffeinePlayercaffeine13271615\" class=\"cbc-caffeine-container player-loading\">\n<div id=\"thumbnailcaffeine13271615\" class=\"thumbnail-container\">\n<div id=\"iconscaffeine13271615\" class=\"icons\"><button class=\"play-button\">Play Media<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"CaffeineErrorMessages\"><strong class=\"spaced\">Trade deal details<\/strong>\u00a02:54<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"CaffeineErrorMessages\">\n<p>Canadians won&#8217;t be able to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal before they vote.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials told CBC News on Wednesday that the exact wording of the full\u00a0agreement in principle announced Oct. 5 won&#8217;t be finalized until next week.<\/p>\n<p>The federal election is next Monday, Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thehouse\/parties-make-their-final-pitch-to-voters-1.3260296\/ed-fast-tpp-text-will-be-released-before-the-election-1.3261494\">Ed Fast on\u00a0<em>The House<\/em>: TPP text will be released before the election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/boag-clinton-tpp-1.3263499\">Keith Boag: Hillary Clinton&#8217;s opposition to the TPP deal might be just\u00a0&#8216;talking&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>ANALYSIS |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/1.3255305\">Spin Cycle: Only the Conservatives are free traders, right?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/1.3262421\">Trans-Pacific Partnership: How the deal was done<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Twelve countries have signed on to the Pacific Rim free trade deal in principle, although it will require a separate ratification process in each country before it takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBC News Network&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Power &amp; Politics<\/em>, Canada&#8217;s trade minister said\u00a0the government was pressing the other 11 countries to release &#8220;any form&#8221; of the text.<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure col4width floatright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3262708.1444321326!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_300\/fastvancouveroct8.jpg\" alt=\"FastVancouverOct8\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Trade Minister Ed Fast told the Vancouver Board of Trade last Thursday that the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would be available within days. Now, government officials say it won&#8217;t be available until after the election. (CBC News)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;What I did say is that we&#8217;re working with our 11 other partners to secure at least a provisional text,&#8221; Conservative Ed Fast told CBC&#8217;s Rosemary Barton\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;m saying,&#8221; Fast said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have full control over it but I can tell you we&#8217;ve been very, very assertive with our partners explaining to them that Canadians \u2014 in the middle of an election \u2014 have a right to know what&#8217;s in the text.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans-Pacific Partnership text won&#8217;t be available before election Government officials say haggling by lawyers from 12 countries delaying release of trade agreement Play Media Trade deal details\u00a02:54 Canadians won&#8217;t be able to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal before they vote. Government officials told CBC News on Wednesday that the exact wording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[103,3544,3000,7466,710,804,6171,2738],"class_list":["post-13434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-ed-fast","tag-secrecy","tag-tpp","tag-trade-agreement","tag-transpacific-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13435,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}