<story><title>Balsillie fears TPP will cost Canada billions</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/balsillie-fears-tpp-will-cost-canada-billions-may-be-worst-ever-policy-move/article27171764/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tareqak</author><text>It is mentioned in the article that the Minister for International Trade, Chrystia Freeland, wanted Canadians to send her comments about it.&lt;p&gt;Here is her tweet about it:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;CanadaTrade&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;662397645722361856&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;CanadaTrade&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;662397645722361856&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there was a website breaking down what exactly is bad about the TPP, complete with links back to the draft text and if people just replied back with that. I think something like genius.com would be useful for this purpose, but I don&amp;#x27;t have the knowledge to highlight what is bad.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Well, I&amp;#x27;m getting started putting stuff up on Genius.com: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genius.com&amp;#x2F;albums&amp;#x2F;Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-parties&amp;#x2F;Trans-pacific-partnership&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;genius.com&amp;#x2F;albums&amp;#x2F;Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negoti...&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;p&gt;Here is where the PDFs are: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mfat.govt.nz&amp;#x2F;Treaties-and-International-Law&amp;#x2F;01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary&amp;#x2F;0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Text.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mfat.govt.nz&amp;#x2F;Treaties-and-International-Law&amp;#x2F;01-Tr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another edit: I am just dumping the text for now. Not sure if I will get to formatting it nicely.</text></comment>
<story><title>Balsillie fears TPP will cost Canada billions</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/balsillie-fears-tpp-will-cost-canada-billions-may-be-worst-ever-policy-move/article27171764/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>&amp;gt; contains “troubling” rules on intellectual property that threaten to make Canada a “permanent underclass” in the economy of selling ideas&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; He fears it would give American firms an edge and cost Canadian companies more money because they would have to pay for someone else’s ideas instead their own.&lt;p&gt;What?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; On top of that, Balsillie believes the structure could prevent Canadian firms from growing as it would also limit how much money they can make from their own products and services.&lt;p&gt;Again why?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think this article ever specifically explains why TPP is bad for Canada.</text></comment>