With the amount of misinformed outrage against the deal, there's no way I'm taking this article at face value.

Did you even read it though? Or you basing this off the title? I'm gonna go ahead and assume you didn't read it.

Under the TPP's original terms, a country could limit the exposure of the owner of such a website to prison time, or to the seizure and possible destruction of their server, on the grounds that by definition their infringement didn't cause any lost sales to the copyright owner. (Note that they would be liable for civil damages to the copyright owner in any case.)

Although a country still has the option to limit criminal penalties to “commercial scale” infringements (which is so broadly defined that it could catch even a non-profit subtitles website), the new language compels TPP signatories to make these penalties available even where those infringements cause absolutely no impact on the copyright holder's ability to profit from the work. This is a massive extension of the provision's already expansive scope.

The article mentions that they changed a word in the agreement from "paragraph" to "subparagraph". Before the change TPP required that each country is expected to take X action when a copyright holder is losing money.

What the change does is expand those requirements to every instance of copyright infringement. Regardless if the infringement is causing monetary damage to the copyright holders or not.

This is the kind of crap that makes the world fear this agreement. It's expanding America's insane copyright laws across the globe. Which is why in my opinion, Canada shouldn't be signing this.