CETA details get their first look and guess who is grumpy?

It's pleasing to see details of the CETA agreement begin to emerge.  Already there are complaints from the dairy people.  There are a few terms like Feta cheese and Asiago cheese that are region specific to the EU.  (The document presented by Ed Fast is embedded below.  I don't actually see what the dairy people are talking about.)

Seems like some are determined to be the losers in CETA.  There might even be some government handouts for failure as a part of this deal.  Talk about aiming low.  The dairy people say they shouldn't have to put "imitation" or  hyphenated "like" as in "Feta-like" cheese on their labels.

Is this just whine and cheese?  How about "Real Canadian Feta Cheese," or "Aziago Cheese" spelled with a Canadian letter Zed?  It doesn't take a cheese marketing genius to figure out how to deal with it. 

Meanwhile there is quality and price to think about.  It would be natural to pick the Greek Feta to put in your Greek salad if all else was equal.  So don't let things be equal.  Get off your whining protected butts and go kick theirs. 

Russian Vodka is not the best Vodka even though they practically live off the stuff.  Beat the Greeks at their own game.  Put black olives in it or something.  You're the cheese people.  Greeks invented Western Civilization and they are hardly the best example of it.  It can be done. 

That goes for the rest of them too.  We've got the better part of a continent at our disposal.  We've got an educated and able population.  What we don't need is loser talk from entitled legacy groups like The Dairy Farmers of Canada.  Let's hear more about how your are going to invade and conquer these new markets and less about how much you think you suck.  Forget your old purpose.  The dairy business needs champs not whiners.  There's no room for self-fulfilling prophecies.  Time to adapt and take on the future. 

CETA technical summary.pdf by The Globe and Mail

The NDP Hidden Agenda

So the NDP is completely in favor of the European Free Trade deal CETA?

I don't buy it.  I don't believe the dippers support "free" anything that wasn't taken from someone else first.

When you look at the NDP press release you see their current strategy is to wait. People are too happy about the deal to oppose it.  Even the press release itself has an overlarge image of Mr. Angry smiling so hard there seems to be a "safe injection site" on his forehead.  Boy Mulcair really loves his free trade.

Of course they are waiting for one of the special interest groups to cry foul.  When they do people like Jim Stanford, a union economist, will be there to negatively bafflegab about it.  Jim opposed corporate tax cuts in the last election.  He opposes NAFTA.  He has a sour opinion on current trade with the EU and says that: "The problem here is not trade. The problem is free trade."

It's only a matter of time before the NDP is publicly against CETA. Including the initial deception, its just who they are.