Canada Claims It Will Back Out of TPP to Protect Its Sovereignty

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21. You do realize that Brunei is establishing harsh laws in order to 'protect their people from the

forces of globalization' while Brunei actively seeks to join those forces more fully, correct? So they are going to execute gay people as an insulation from the TPP, which the Sultan wants. His reason for the repressive laws is that globalization is a threat, but he has sought that globalization. To be party to such actions is not to merely enter a trade agreement, it is to enter a trade agreement with someone who is saying 'we can make this work by repressing our people even unto death by stoning'.

Do you have any sort of limits to the universe of possible favored partners? The US has been known to impose sanctions in trade and should be doing so with Brunei.
Would you support favored nations deals with countries that were engaged in race based genocide? What about a country that said 'we want this deal, but first we have to kill all the minorities who don't like it, so give us a year and we're in'? Is that still a glorious deal worth doing? Trade at any price?