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Renamed TPP signed, without the IP BS.

Accepted submission by dry at 2018-03-10 01:49:38 from the From the life goes on department dept.
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The renamed TPP, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership has been signed by 11 countries. https://globalnews.ca/news/4069924/tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-signing-canada/ [globalnews.ca], future includes Mercosur for Canada at least http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cptpp-mercosur-champagne-1.4567284 [www.cbc.ca].
Thankfully, Trump's withdrawal from the TPP allowed the Canadian people to push our government to push for removal of most of the contentious IP crap that the US demanded, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/11/rethinking-ip-in-the-tpp/ [michaelgeist.ca].
America is considering rejoining, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/mnuchin-tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-trump.html [nytimes.com]


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