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by the_mitsuhiko 3558 days ago
> I didn't find out the time it's supposedly be public for debate, but if you're doing a deal for the people, you want people to negotiate, not just accept the deal as it is, which, as history taught us, it will be a really tight timeframe for debate and it's approved few days before a major holiday when people are distracted.

CETA was public for more than two years before it went for signing. Naturally nobody cared until the last 6 months.