Le Canada absent en raison des intérêts américains?
"It's a trade deal being heralded as a model for the economic future, but Canada won't take part because of its economic past.
Nine Pacific rim nations agreed Saturday to forge ahead with a new trade bloc that will fast-track trade between some of the most lucrative and potentially lucrative economies in the world.
"The (Trans Pacific Partnership) will boost our economies, lowering barriers to trade and investment, increasing exports, and creating more jobs for our people," U.S. President Barack Obama said in announcing the new framework ahead of the start of the formal APEC leader summit in Hawaii on Saturday.
But that won't be the case for Canada.
While Canada would like to be part of the Trans Pacific Partnership, it doesn't agree with the cost of membership, particularly the suggestion that it needs to signal a willingness to abandon supply management policies, International Trade Minister Ed Fast said Saturday.
"There has been some resistance and suggestions that we should be pre-negotiating our entry to the Trans Pacific partnership," Fast said.
"We have made it very clear that Canada will not pre-negotiate, we believe all of those issues should be discussed at the negotiating table."
Nor does Canada feel it needs to exchange farmers' interests for the greater economic interest, Fast said.
"We have free trade agreements with 14 countries, in each case we have been able to negotiate to agreements that are acceptable and that allow us to continue to support our supply management system," he said.
Fast wouldn't say who is resisting having Canada at the TPP talks, but one observer said Canada doesn't need to look very far.
"Washington has no interests in structuring a deal which will see their benefits diluted by Canada being on the same footing as U.S. exporters," said Peter Clark, a former Canadian trade negotiator."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/12/apec-summit-canada_n_1090105.html?ref=canada
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