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   And so do most concerned, thinking Canadians.  This is a 'free trade' deal   
   that could do more damage to our sovereignty and any safety from corporate   
   dictates than even NAFTA.     
      
   It goes well beyond the exchange of goods. . . . it lays out what our federal   
   and provincial governments can/can't do to protect us from corporate abuses.     
      
   Support Unifor. . . .  support any party that wants the TPP opened up and   
   fully examined before any Prime Minister inks approval for it - on *our*   
   behalf.   
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   CBC News Posted: Sep 23, 2015   
      
   Unifor, autoworkers want Tory candidates to state views on Trans-Pacific   
   Partnership   
      
   Wide-ranging trade deal under negotiation seen as possible threat to auto   
   industry   
      
   Unifor members held rallies outside of a handful of Ontario Conservative   
   candidates' offices on Wednesday night, in a bid to pressure them to reveal   
   their position on the controversial Pacific Rim trade deal that Ottawa is   
   negotiating.   
      
   Ahead of the rallies, Unifor president Jerry Dias said the country's largest   
   private-sector union was "calling on Conservative candidates in auto ridings   
   to tell their constituents where they stand on the Trans-Pacific Partnership,   
   and the threat it    
   poses to jobs in their ridings."   
      
   The Trans-Pacific Partnership has yet to be made final, but it could end up   
   allowing foreign automakers to import vehicles tariff-free into Canada with   
   substantially less North American-made content than is the case now.   
      
   In response, the union sent some of its members and their supporters to hold   
   rallies outside selected Ontario candidates' campaign offices in the ridings   
   in Oshawa, Ajax, Brampton, Kitchener, Woodstock, London, Goderich and Essex.   
   'Taking away' sovereignty?   
      
   In the largely rural riding of Essex, the rally was held on a property   
   directly next to the office of Jeff Watson, a Conservative candidate and   
   four-term incumbent who had worked as an autoworker before being elected to   
   Parliament.   
      
   The crowd brought signs and union flags and many specific concerns about the   
   proposed trade deal.   
      
   Jim Mitchell, a retired autoworker from the town of LaSalle, said he was   
   alarmed by some of the details that had leaked out about the proposed trade   
   deal.   
      
   He said that trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership are "taking away   
   the government's sovereignty and turning it over to multi-national,   
   trans-national corporations."   
      
   Chris Taylor, the president of Unifor Local 200, stood in the back of a pickup   
   truck while he told the crowd that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was   
   "about to sell out our industries" with the trade deal.   [- - -]   
      
   During a leaders' debate held last week, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper   
   said there are parts of the proposed trade deal that the domestic auto   
   industry would not like.      ﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ ?   
   [- - -]   
   Liberal candidate Scott Brison and NDP candidate Don Davies blasted the Harper   
   government's handling of the trade negotiations, arguing the Conservatives   
   haven't been clear with Canadians over what's on the table for the auto and   
   agriculture sectors in    
   the talks.   
      
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