Looks like Canada's Conservative Party (federal) government is moving on dairy access under the TPP.
CBC: "Canada Opening Border to Milk"
Canadian dairy farmers are up in arms. They make milk in a hostile climate and their dairy cattle need to be in warm barns for much of the year and fed something other than grass as well....which makes their milk more expensive than from places where the weather is warmer.
There is considerable controversy about this in Canada as constitutional conventions should preclude any government finalising a huge trade deal next week in Atlanta, just 2 weeks before a general election they may well lose. New Zealand operates under the same convention, but we aren't holding an election. The Canadian government is apparently intending to lock the next government into the TPP.....and that next government might not be the Conservatives.... coming to power in less than a month.
The Conservatives were third in the polls (lots of reasons, but "arrogant, ignorant Tories" sums it up) until they declared they would not take many/any (depends who's talking) muslim refugees from Syria...while the two opposition parties (Liberals and NDP) had both committed to take more refugees. In Canada, muslim-hating - alone - is enough to swing elections. In Ontario in 2007 the Conservative party there was in Opposition but ahead in the polls. But they made it a policy commitment to provide government funding for religious schools (some rich Jews in Toronto wanted funding for Hebrew schools and made BIG donations to the Conservatives).....and this was converted by the Toronto Star (a Liberal-aligned newspaper) into "taxpayer money for muslim madrasas".....and consequently the Tories went down in a screaming heap in the October 2007 provincial elections.
The same effect may be about to rescue the federal Conservatives...who were dog tucker until 2 weeks ago when the 3yo Syrian boy drowned on the beach in Europe, putting pressure on governments to take more refugees.
It's weird how all this stuff is interwoven and connected.
So Canadians may shaft their dairy farmers and wreck their public broadcaster and see their own wages pushed down further and more jobs go to China........because they don't want more muslims in Canada.
"Oh Canada!......"
....and Kiwi farmers may come out better off for it (but the rest of us are probably screwed anyway by the TPP). We'll know on October 20th how it's going to go.