Trans-Pacific Partnership

Canada is now facing east and west as it attempts to negotiate trade deals with both Europe and in the Pacific region. Both of these new deals are being negotiated in secret.

Free-market think tanks, their ideological friends in the media and Liberal party leadership hopefuls have fixated on supply management as the next big economic boogeyman.

Some quick thoughts on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what it means for Canada. We're fighting on two very big trade fronts now -- CETA with Europe and the TPP with Obama.

Entry into the TPP talks provides the Harperites with the opportunity to deliver the second punch in the one-two combination that will hand food production over to the so-called agri-food industry.