With the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership published Thursday, Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland — on her first full day on the job — promised a serious consultation period with Canadians and thorough parliamentary debate.

Early Thursday, the New Zealand government published the full text online, to which the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development subsequently published a link on their website.

The Canadian government, Freeland told reporters on her way into a Liberal caucus meeting Thursday, won’t publish the text itself until it’s been translated into French.

It did, however, publish 10 side letters with TPP negotiating partners — bilateral agreements with Australia and New Zealand on wine, with Australia on dairy, with Japan on forest products, and Malaysia on motor vehicles, among others.

“Canadians and I have had less than 12 hours to start familiarizing ourselves with this agreement. I actually have it printed out on my desk, it’s more than 6,000 pages. We believe in trade. We understand that Canada is a trading nation. We are the eleventh sized economy in the world. The prosperity of the middle class, which is a central part of our agenda, depends very much on Canada being fully plugged in to the global economy,” Freeland said.

“Having said that, a real leitmotif of the Trudeau government is going to be openness and consultation. That hasn’t happened yet with this agreement. We weren’t the ones negotiating it. What we really want to have happen now is a period for Canadians to become familiar with this agreement…giving people a place where they can send in their comments about the TPP. I’m going to take it seriously – we’re going to review it.”

She also promised thorough Parliamentary scrutiny of the agreement.

“The other commitment that I would really like to reinforce right now, is we are committed to having a fully parliamentary debate about the TPP,” she said.

Citing reports that Prime Minister Trudeau assured the Americans and Japanese he would “get the deal done in Canada”, the NDP cast doubts on the sincerity of that consultation promise in a Thursday afternoon press release.

“Prime Minister Trudeau can’t promise open consultations here and then tell others behind closed doors that he’ll be able to push the deal through,” NDP trade critic Don Davies was quoted as saying.

“As the progressive opposition, New Democrats will push for a better deal to ensure Canadian interests and values are protected.”