Shortly after election night, we received the news that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was on rocky ground in the United States. As much as most of us were ready to bounce off the walls in face of such a major victory for the people, it didn't seem quite right to declare confidently that the agreement was "dead" just yet.

The truth is that, yes -- the TPP faced a major defeat with the loss of the U.S. support and the statements senior government officials that they would not pursue a vote in the lame duck session of Congress.

If you happened to read Terence Corcoran yesterday, either because your eyes were bleeding and you needed to pick up the closest rag you could find, or because you were trapped on a flight beside a business fellow who manspreaded his way into your personal space, you would have read a fascinating work of fiction.

In a screed that sounds something like "Won't somebody please think of the children?" (except replace children with "the capitalist class"), Corcoran takes one for the team and does his best to make a Union Boss look like Donald Trump.

A just-published government assessment of the economic impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) fails to consider the damage the TPP will cause to Canada's digital economy. The report completely ignores mounting evidence that the TPP's extreme copyright rules will cost jobs, undermine innovation, and cause millions in economic losses.

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"Just not done." That's the stance of Canadian business and opinion leaders about whether and how the United States could leave the North American free-trade agreement unilaterally. Like David Cameron before the Brexit referendum, their approach is to avoid thinking about it, hope for the best and go without a Plan B.