{"id":71558,"date":"2017-11-13T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71558"},"modified":"2017-11-13T05:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:37:27","slug":"canada-transpacific-deal-and-the-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/13\/canada-transpacific-deal-and-the-national-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Transpacific Deal and the national interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Ranjith Soysa<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Justin Trudeau did not sign the TPP, the trade agreement\u00a0 which was the central issue of the recent APEC meeting held\u00a0 in Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">He stated &#8221; Let me remind everyone\u00a0 Canada will not be rushed into a deal that is not in the best interest <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">of Canada and Canadians. I have always been very clear that I will stand up for Canadian jobs, Canadian<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">values, that is exactly what we will do here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">The protection of the national economy should be the primary consideration of any policy maker<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">negotiating &#8220;liberal&#8217; trade arrangements especially when such discussions are between a giant of<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">\u00a0a country and a small nation like Sri Lanka. Even to those who rush into invite\u00a0 the unbridled<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">foreign capital the words of the Canadian Prime Minister should serve as a useful guideline unless <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">the decision\u00a0 makers are keen on destroying purposely the Sri Lankan Nation State <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #1d1d1d; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Ranjith Soysa <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjith Soysa Justin Trudeau did not sign the TPP, the trade agreement\u00a0 which was the central issue of the recent APEC meeting held\u00a0 in Vietnam. He stated &#8221; Let me remind everyone\u00a0 Canada will not be rushed into a deal that is not in the best interest of Canada and Canadians. I have always been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}