that's kind of twisting it around, kate. you vote on the tpp first, then write the budget that may or may not have measures in it. you don't write the budget with the assumption the tpp is passed, then vote on it and claim it's a budgetary issue. by that logic, any vote with funding attached to it is a budget issue?

i'm not convinced that what trudeau says really justifies the headline. but, voters should be voting on the assumption that the liberals will back the deal. they back most trade deals.

i do, however, agree that a referendum is a good idea.

www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/07/trudeau-tpp-_n_8257950.html