My opposition to it might not be the most pragmatic (I don't claim to be an expert on trade agreements), but it stems from fact that China is simply not a friendly country and hasn't shown that they deserve the goodwill that such a deal requires. Aside from their own repulsive human rights record, they have shown themselves to oppose Canadian interests in the past on many other political levels.
If money was no object, we should be putting sanctions on China and isolating ourselves from them, and not making deals with them. But alas, money is the most extenuating of circumstances in this day. I don't even blame the Conservatives. I have no doubt that any other political party would have made the same deal because these days, China gets what they want from most countries not named USA or EU (and sometimes even then).
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