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    Hope you like butter, because you’re going to keep paying through the nose for it: a tale of Canada-EU trade

    Thirty-five — thirty-five! — European trade negotiators were scheduled to arrive in Ottawa over the weekend for the first of five scheduled negotiating sessions with a Canadian trade team, the first formal talks aimed at producing CETA — a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. The only news organization in Canada that seems to have noticed is the Globe and Mail. (UPDATE: But that’s only if you missed the editorial in the Citizen and the coverage in Embassy, as I did.) And…well, surprise, surprise: