[Techdirt] EU-Canada Trade Agreement ‘Celebrated’, Text Officially Released; Even Worse Than Feared

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Techdirt has been covering the « Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement » (CETA) between the EU and Canada for a while now. Or rather, trying to, given the obsessive secrecy that has surrounded the negotiations, just as it does for TAFTA/TTIP and TPP. However, the agreement’s text has now been officially released (pdf) — on the day that those negotiating it declared it finished. […]

It turns out that CETA contains many other deeply worrying aspects. That’s doubtless why the negotiators were so keen to keep the text secret, but now that we have it, detailed analyses are coming through. The first in-depth look at what’s lurking among CETA’s 1500 pages comes from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), which has produced a document called « Making Sense of the CETA: An analysis of the final text of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ». Even that runs to over a hundred pages; what follows are some of the key points that it highlights. […]

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141003/07584528718/eu-canada-trade-agreement-celebrated-text-officially-released-even-worse-than-feared.shtml