Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
I thought trade deals like TPP were designed so that it makes it easier for Canada to sell what it was good at making, and make it easier for other countries to sell to us what we aren't good at making.
That's the theory. But from what I've read so far, it's more about opening our supply management areas to cheaper (and shadier) imports. Things like
milk and cheese and beef.
Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
To me, this is completely the opposite of what we need to be doing, which is diversifying our economy. You can't be diverse and specialised at the same time.
Many things don't seem to apply to our economy, it would seem. Things like
Healthcare and Privacy,
and copyright protections.
$1:
When the previous government touted the advantages of the 12-nation trade agreement, they talked about the benefit to "20th century" industries, such as lumber and the fishery, he said.
"Missing from all of that is IT – it's technology – it's the engines that increasingly we're going to look to from an economic perspective. Nobody in Canadian government that has suggested it will advantage businesses in that sector."
In many cases, the Canadian rules are stronger and make more sense, Geist said.
On the issue of privacy, for example, the TPP would prevent governments from requiring the use of local servers for data storage.
Provinces such as British Columbia and Nova Scotia have laws that mandate government information (such as health data) must be stored within the country, a requirement that means data on Canadian citizens can't fall under U.S. surveillance.
U.S. law provides less privacy protection to foreign citizens, so there would be little protection for Canadian data held in the U.S.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/michael ... -1.3316691Sure, we can have greater access for our softwood lumber to Brunei . . . but how much will it cost in increased drug prices and the further erosion of our privacy for that limited market?
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