NAFTA leaves workers coming up short

It gives extraordinary protections for private investors, but fails to extend meaningful protections for workers.

NDP MP Niki Ashton talks with a worker at an Ottawa rally supporting Unifor members representing workers at the CAMI automotive plant in Ingersoll, Ont. last fall. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TRACEY RAMSEY

January 17, 2018

While NAFTA talks continue in Ottawa, very little focuses on its impacts on working people. Before committing to any agreement, we need to ensure that Canadians’ lives and our communities have been improved by this trade relationship. Twenty-three years ago when NAFTA was originally negotiated by...

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