Feds pursuing TPP revival, crunching numbers on new deal

Maintaining the TPP’s existing labour standards is ‘a hard line’ for the Liberal government, said one government official.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to a nuclear security summit in Washington last year. With the U.S. out of the picture for now, Canada and Japan have the two largest economies of the remaining TPP partners eyeing a renewed deal. Photograph courtesy of the PMO

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 31, 2017

The government’s trade experts are drawing up a playbook for talks on a reworked 11-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, trying to anticipate what the remaining members will want in order to swing a deal without the United States. “I think it�...

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