there are parts of ceta i don't like, but i'm in favour of trading with europe.

i'm in favour of open trading with australia and new zealand and japan, and with slightly more restricted trading with chile and peru. and, we need some kind of agreement with china, who i know is not in the tpp.

but, a tpp that includes countries like vietnam, brunei, malaysia and mexico is just going to recreate all of the problems that we created with nafta, and for this reason canada should avoid signing on to it.

the chretien liberals had an impossible choice with nafta: they were screwed either way. and i do think they made the right choice, as difficult as it was.

but, trudeau is being given a golden opportunity to correct the errors of the 80s, and instead he's intent on repeating them. he doesn't have the situational problems that chretien had; he doesn't have the pressure from the americans to sign on.

this isn't a difficult choice, it's a foolhardy decision that will lead to a further hollowing out of the canadian economy in favour of a continued redistribution of wealth to the investor class. and, signing this will do the kind of long term damage to the liberal party of canada that clinton's championing of nafta has done to the democratic party.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.