Implementing legislation for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

The Government of Canada is committed to diversifying and expanding market access opportunities that will help Canadian businesses grow and create job opportunities for hard-working Canadians. 

[On June 14, 2018], the Honourable Francois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of International Trade, introduced legislation in the House of Commons for the implementation of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The CPTPP will provide Canadian exporters and investors across a broad range of sectors with preferential access to fast-growing markets in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam. The CPTPP also contains the first-ever chapter devoted to small and medium-sized businesses, making it easier for them to export, grow their companies and create good middle-class jobs...

This is excerpted from 14 June 2018 news release by Global Affairs Canada.