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So why all the secrecy on TPP?

So why all the secrecy on TPP? By Susan Delacourt very now and then, governments need to be reminded that they only rent their power — they don’t own it, no matter how long they’ve held the keys to the fancy offices in Ottawa. Elections are one such reminder; so are the “caretaker conventions” now in force during the current campaign. If Stephen Harper’s government does sign a big trade deal at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Atlanta this week, expect some pointed questions about whether Conservatives are stretching the limits of their current, caretaker power. On Aug. 2, when… View Article