"Shhh! Let's have an international trade meeting and not tell anyone."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/20/f-vp-petrovich-tpp-secrecy.html
The ambitious, now 11-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been raising the ire of U.S. senators as well as reporters, lawyers and labour groups all over the world for the exceptionally high level of secrecy surrounding its negotiation.
But is it possible Canada is raising that bar even higher still?
A case in point was the three-day negotiating session of the TPP that was held in Vancouver recently. And which the federal government had no intention of even mentioning until it was leaked, after the fact, by news media in Peru.
Looks like the Canadian government takes the complete blackout of information on the TPP just as seriously as their American counterparts. The Vancouver session did not appear on the USTR's schedule page so now it appears we had an "unofficial" 18th round of negotiations that only came to light after a leaker decided to make it known.