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It is mentioned in the article that the Minister for International Trade, Chrystia Freeland, wanted Canadians to send her comments about it.

Here is her tweet about it: https://twitter.com/CanadaTrade/status/662397645722361856

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't have the knowledge to highlight what is bad.

Edit: Well, I'm getting started putting stuff up on Genius.com: http://genius.com/albums/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negoti... .

Here is where the PDFs are: http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Tr...

Another edit: I am just dumping the text for now. Not sure if I will get to formatting it nicely.

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Update 10:47 AM EST: I put up chapters 0-30. I still have the annexes from chapter 2, 12, and 15 to do (I am doing them next). I made a few mistakes with chapter 20 (Environment), and I cannot delete them. I used the "Contact Us" link to ask to have those pages deleted. Here are the links to be deleted in case someone with links to genius.com is reading:

http://genius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-p...

Edit: Initially, I had the chapters categorized as X (other), but I started changing them to Law. genius.com doesn't seem to let me change it after the fact.

Update 11:37 AM EST: It seems like I have hit a limit as to how many "songs" (chapters) an album ("document") can have. Any new ones I make do not appear in the album. I am going to have to stop for now since it will be hard to keep track. These are the two I made before I noticed:

http://genius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-p...

Update 12:38 PM EST: No word yet on the issue with genius.com . I did find the contact information for Minister Freeland [1], and search page for Canadian Members of Parliament (you can search by postal code) [2].

[1] http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Chrystia-F...

[2] http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/Constituencies/Fin...

Update 4:53 PM EST: I only managed to reformat the Preamble and Chapter 1. Still no word from genius.com about the issues I am having. I tweeted for the first time: https://twitter.com/TeeAyKay/status/663830955971338240 . I kept the language of the tweet neutral to see who participates. I know I am potentially opening the flood gates to abuse on genius, but hopefully the dry subject matter will keep the trolls away and attract people who can bring insight and foresee potential consequences. I am biased towards lawyers in this regard, but they might just be like too much of "I am not your lawyer" to participate.

Thanks, to genius.com for providing the platform for this endeavour (I hope you get in touch with me!).

Vox has a nice intro: http://www.vox.com/cards/trans-pacific-partnership

If your in the US, I heard about this[1] site over the weekend. I haven't looked too far in to the details myself but skimming over it, it looks legitimate. In their analysis, they don't reference the section being vetted but it is rather simple analysis.

1. http://www.globaltradewatch.org/

It might be worth trying to get in touch with Balsillie - he may be willing to spend a couple of dollars to get something like you describe up & running - if he hasn't already started on it.

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