Wake Up John Key – People don’t trust you or the secret TPPA

“The Prime Minister’s response to Saturday’s mass protests against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) across 23 towns and cities was both ignorant and arrogant”, says Edward Miller, who coordinated the protests for It’s Our Future network.

“First, Key says people are being misled over a deal, but he insists the details must remain secret. Then he says people can trust him not to do anything bad for New Zealand, even though he won’t tell them what he’s doing.”

Miller says “the Prime Minister is insulting ordinary Kiwis in communities across New Zealand. People instinctively distrust secret deals. If the TPPA’s really so good for us the Prime Minister needs to release the text now. He won’t because it isn’t.”

The evidence shows that Key is misleading people about what the deal means for New Zealand, according to Miller.

“There is nothing to suggest there will be real economic benefits to the country. But the leaked texts show that there are real costs. More expensive medicines, special rights for foreign investors to sue the government, limits on Internet freedom are all there”, says Miller.

“Despite some truly horrendous weather in certain parts of the country, more than 10,000 people attended yesterday’s rallies around the country. New towns came on board and groups like Doctors for Healthy Trade and medical students associations had a strong presence nationwide. That demonstrates how incensed kiwis are that these negotiations that affect their lives are continuing behind closed doors.”

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