TPP may be unworkable, but a 'no show'?  Well, his dad did give people the finger so I  suppose he comes by it naturally. 

True enough I may be getting a little testy with Trudeau but sopping him with kindness in the face of so much ineffectiveness as PM, that's too much.  This is an insult to Asian leaders, a thumbing our noses in favour of the USA, with whom we are in peril of bungling our own trade agreement. From the Straits Times Newspaper in Singapore:

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/talks-on-taking-trans-pacific-partnership-forward-put-off-amid-no-show-by-canada-at