In my last column, I stated that I didn't think the Trans-Pacific Partnership would cost Canada tens of thousands of jobs and I felt that I should expand on that statement.
The partnership has been described as the biggest trade deal ever signed. Indeed, the UK Telegraph ran a story with the title "Why TPP is the most important acronym you've never heard of."
Their opening statement: "The U.S. and Japan have agreed to sign up to the trade-busting Trans-Pacific Partnership."
No mention of Canada or the other nine countries involved in their first sentence. From a non-North American perspective, Japan and the U.S. are still major economic forces. Their collaboration matters.
