[LINK] Our Trade Minister: Releasing IP Enforcement TPP Treaty Text would harm public debate

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:41 PM 7/04/2011, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > Finally, the last claim is the most ridiculous. How can a more 
> informed public not assist in informed public debate? Seriously. It 
> takes amazing hubris to try to claim that keeping a document secret 
> leads to greater "informed public debate" on the subject.

The current government is quite good at new speak in this regard of 
non-consultation, or at least defining the public out of the 
stakeholder definition. Just get Roger going on the NeHTA stuff. Or 
maybe not. ;-)

Jan



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