Description: Unifor, whose members include autoworkers, is calling on Conservative candidates in the Oct. 19 election “to tell their constituents where they stand on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the threat it poses to jobs in their ridings.”
Source: CBC
Date: 09/23/2015
Related links:
- Stephen Harper warns auto industry won’t like parts of the TPP
- Unifor
- CTV: Canada’s auto sector ‘nervous’ about TPP talks
- The National Post’s take on the TPP
- Deal “needs closer look”
Questions for discussion:
- What is the TPP?
- Why is Unifor upset about it?
- Based on what you have read, do you think they have reason to be concerned?
- What was Jeff Watson’s reponse to the demonstrators?
- What do you think of his arguments? Discuss.
