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Here is Jim Goddard.

My guest is James Corbett, publisher of The Corbett Report.com, and he's also an editorial writer

for the International Forecaster.

He's speaking to us from Japan, where he has worked and lived since 2004.

Welcome back to the show, James.

Thanks for having me back, Jim.

And I betcha you're glad that your Calgary stampeters are in the Grey Cup this year.

Couldn't be happier, and I'm looking forward to them soundly trouncing Toronto.

Yes, we all do in the West, and we almost had a situation where Saskatchewan would have

represented the East, except they lost with seven seconds ago.

Anyway, so that's the sporting news that I'm sure everybody was waiting for on the show.

James, was there any disappointment that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not sign the TPP when he was in Asia?

Well, there was some consternation from the Asian nations that were looking at putting this

together. Quite specifically, I think Japan was really spearheading

that. And we did talk about this the last time I was on the show, and I made the incorrect

prognostication that TPP was basically dead in the water and that it was over. But that

turned out to be almost immediately proven wrong, because TPP is moving ahead in some form. Some

form of TPP 11 was being hashed out

there at the APEC conference there in Asia. But yes, it turns out that Trudeau had made some

sort of motion towards being on board with this, but then at the last moment didn't send the

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