[SteveEisenberg]

Just opinion, but:

TPP trade deal looks dead on arrival

Heck, the ink has barely dried on a landmark deal Prime Minister Stephen Harper trumpeted a mere 10 days ago as “a once-in-a-lifetime” agreement, one that would more closely integrate our nation’s economic future with the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region.

But a week and a half is a lifetime in politics, as Harper and International Trade Minister Ed Fast can well attest. So even as Fast continued to promote the benefits of the TPP to Canada and Alberta in an interview with the Journal on Wednesday, his party’s dream of making it a reality appears to be fading as quickly as the Conservatives’ election chances.

Recent events — the Liberals’ dramatic surge in the opinion polls to within striking distance of a majority victory in Monday’s federal election, and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s abrupt 11th-hour rejection of a deal she had long championed — have sharply upped the odds that the TPP will never see the light of day.