Prize for
Understanding
Good
Government 
America's most wanted secret. The TPP is a multi-trillion dollar
international treaty that is being negotiated in secret by the US,
Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico and others. This massive agreement has
29 chapters, of which 26 are still secret. It covers 40% of global GDP
and is the largest agreement of its kind in history. The treaty aims to
create a new international legal regime that will allow transnational
corporations to bypass domestic courts, evade environmental protections,
police the internet on behalf of the content industry, limit the
availability of affordable generic medicines, and drastically curtail
each country's legislative sovereignty. US Senator Elizabeth Warren has
said "[They] can’t make this deal public because if the American people
saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it."
Over the last two years WikiLeaks has published three chapters of this
super-secret global deal, despite unprecedented efforts by negotiating
governments to keep it under wraps. The remaining 26 chapters of the
deal are closely held by negotiators and the big corporations that have
been given privileged access.
The TPP is also noteworthy as the icebreaker agreement for the proposed
'T-treaty triad' of TPP-TISA-TTIP which would see TPP style rules placed
on 53 nations, 1.6 billion people and 2/3rds of the global economy.
