Prime Minister Harper and posse are in Europe this week for the annual World Economic Forum. He's hobnobbing with world leaders, business lobbyists and the super-elite, pushing Canada's entry into Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, promoting the advanced Canada-EU free trade negotiations. So the leaking of key documents related to the CETA talks is bound to embarrass Harper and Trade Minister Ed Fast. At least we hope so...

The B.C. government has been heavily promoting its "jobs plan" over the last week on television, radio and on the Internet. On Twitter they invited people to come online to give their ideas about what could be done to promote more jobs in communities.

But there is one idea to promote jobs in communities we won't be hearing about from the province. It is an idea that is creating thousands of jobs in communities across the United States. The idea is simple. Local governments should support small businesses in their communities by giving them an advantage when bidding on government work.

The Saskatchewan Party had repeatedly promised not to sign TILMA. But it signed the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA) last year.

A month ago, Canada's federal, provincial and territorial governments volunteered to be directly sued by investors under the Agreement on Internal Trade. This quiet announcement from Brudenell, Prince Edward Island, seems to have gone almost unnoticed.

But it is a huge step toward imposing the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) on all Canadian jurisdictions and inserting investor-state provisions into Canada's proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union.