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While the TPP provisions appear far-reaching and of concern on multiple levels, the issue of patents and its implications for pharmaceuticals is particularly egregious. The international humanitarian organization, Medecins sans frontières (MSF), argues that the TPP will be the "most damaging trade agreement...ever seen in terms of access to medicines for poor people."

Health care providers rely on the low cost of quality-assured generic medication to combat disease among poorer populations around the world. Without this, millions upon millions of people would die from treatable causes.

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Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who also happens to be the former chief economist of the World Bank, has warned that the TPP presents "grave risks" to democracy and will only "benefit the wealthiest sliver of the American and global elite at the expense of everyone else." A review of the WikiLeaks documents confirms Stiglitz's concerns.

It is enormously telling that our government is willing to negotiate a deal that clearly only has monied interests in mind, and is furthermore prepared to take significant measures to keep such negotiations secret from the rest of us, presumably because those in power in Ottawa are worried about the public's reaction should we become aware of what our government is signing away.

After all, why else would it be secret?