Signs point to Canada getting seat at Trans-Pacific Partnership talks

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Stephen Harper is expected to announce a huge step toward Canada’s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks at the G-20 meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico, Tuesday.

If he doesn’t, something has gone terribly wrong and the “ambitious trade agenda” the Prime Minister talks about routinely will have suffered a grave setback.

Sources suggest Canada and Mexico were invited into the TPP talks by the existing nine members late last week. Mexico accepted immediately and Monday morning U.S. President Barack Obama extended a formal invitation to join the potentially massive new trade bloc.

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