– Weekend Rally Says No To Trans-Pacific Parternship (TPP) Trade Deal
A Post from Sheri Lakeman for Canadians Against Unfair Trade Agreements
Niagara, Ontario, November 2015 – On this (past) cold and windy (Saturday) November14th, in solidarity with concerned citizens, farmers, rank and file union members and anti-poverty advocates, we had our “grand finale rally”.
Niagara, Ontario residents hold rally against TPP trade deal at Welland Canal bridge crossing in St. Catharines. Photo by Joanne McDonald
To these battle worn activists, history will remember you as the true leaders of a movement away from apathy, complicit ignorance and entitlement; and into a new era of grassroots activism where WE can breakdown the political silos and division amongst us. WE will educate and inspire the masses to get off the couch and become more active participants in our diminishing democracy.
Stay tuned!!
As this month of Saturday Rallies has now concluded, we have only just begun to educate our friends and neighbours about the ongoing Corporatization of our beloved Canada, through these so-called free-trade deals. Plans are being laid to hold a public forum on the TPP, at Brock University in early December. We will keep you posted as the details become available.
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Keep up the good work and keep the information coming about TPP..
In light of the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ratification and the Canadian benefit from this trade deal’s sweeping impact, an excerpt from historic Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates from 1847
on ‘the price of bread’ echoes back to some early roots of political and economic globalization. It seems the burden of market economy still labours between equity and profit considerations. Page 1012 of the original text reads as follows:
“Baronet had caused considerable alarm and some indignation amongst a numerous and respectable body of men—the bakers of the metropolis. They maintained that the price of bread had risen and fallen with the price of wheat, and by a reference to the weekly averages of the price of wheat, their statement would be found to be borne out…. It should be observed that there were two prices for bread. The right hon. Baronet had commended Gentlemen to deal with parties as only charged a fair price. He believed the competition in the trade so keen, that there need not be the slightest alarm of any advantage being taken of the public. At all events, the right hon. Gentleman’s doctrine ought to be carried further, and to go the length of recommending all to buy wheat and flour in any part of the world where they could get them cheapest, and not to confine them to England, or the limits of the metropolis.”
Let’s hope that today’s trading balance can be influenced by informed, timely and loud civil voices.
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