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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 10 2015, @02:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the which-way-tot-he-chicken-coop dept.

Jim Balsillie of BlackBerry fame has come out against the TPP.

From the CBC article:

Jim Balsillie warns that provisions tucked into the Trans-Pacific Partnership could cost Canada hundreds of billions of dollars — and eventually make signing it the worst public policy decision in the country's history.

After poring over the treaty's final text, the businessman who helped build Research In Motion into a $20-billion global player said the deal contains "troubling" rules on intellectual property that threaten to make Canada a "permanent underclass" in the economy of selling ideas.

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And unlike legislation passed in Parliament, he noted treaties like this one set rules that must be followed forever. This deal, he added, also features "iron-clad" dispute mechanisms.

"I'm worried and I don't know how we can get out of this," said Balsillie, who's also helping guide the creation of a lobby group that would press for the needs of Canada's innovation sector.

"I think our trade negotiators have profoundly failed Canadians and our future innovators. I really lament it."


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:00PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:00PM (#261304)

    Malcolm X said it best: "Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok!"

    And yes, it was basically national governments lining up to sell out themselves and their citizens to the megacorps. With wide support from across the political party spectrum in countries with "free" elections.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:09PM (#261433)

    Look at yourselves. Go on, look at you. People of Sherwood Forest, you've been had. Hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Run amuck. We didn't land on Sherwood Forest, Sherwood Forest landed on us!