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Originally Posted by rjcroy
Yes, the bill will go to a select committee. But the select committee process is based on the principle that recommended changes to the bill can then made before the bill is passed into law. In this case, many parts of the bill are not likely to be negotiable because they are already agreed and not negotiable.
However there may be some items that are not like this. I see in the agreement that some articles say "Party's shall implement..." and others say "Party's may implement...". Presumable the 'may's are still up for debate in the parliament.
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Yes "May" means may, as long as the more broadly described intents of the TPP are complied with.
You may not be aware but the Copyright Act was already going to be reviewed, but has been delayed until the TPP outcome was known.
In the end this will fly through the NZ Parliament from a general acceptability point of view when received from the select committee. Whether they vote for it or not the major opposition party is hardly going to be much against it given their strong support and fostering of trade agreements in the past; there will be politicking criticisms but to date they (and all others except for those with extreme political views such as Kelsey) seem to have found little to disagree with.
You sound as if you may have some specific concern with something in the 6,000 odd pages of the Agreement? Perhaps, for myself, I would have liked the copyright period to have remained unchanged, but in the end that is not going to be of immediate concern and I tend to look at these things from the overall outcome point of view, a perfect result for everyone cannot be achieved.