Auto analysts split on Unifor's strength in GM contract talks

Oshawa plant 'doomed'

Ian Lee, a business professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, sees this position as a last desperate act in a losing battle to save the plant.

"I think the plant in Oshawa is doomed," Lee said. "I think this is an act of desperation on part because they've run out of runway, they've run out of options."

The Canadian auto sector lost 53,000 jobs in the last 15 years, according to the Automotive Policy Research Centre. Work is shifting to plants in Mexico and the southern U.S. ? notably with Ford Motor Co. deciding to build a $2.5-billion engine plant in Mexico earlier this year.

Quick! Fire up the TPP so we can lose more industries! Like Dairy, we don't need that, right?

If Canada doesn't want to be a part of the TPP it goes forward without them. Contact your local MP and the federal government if you don't like the deal. I happen to want free trade, especially with nations like Japan, America and the EU.

My belief is that the Liberals want this to go forward too, though other nations are less interested at the moment...

If Canada doesn't want to be a part of the TPP it goes forward without them. Contact your local MP and the federal government if you don't like the deal. I happen to want free trade, especially with nations like Japan, America and the EU.

My belief is that the Liberals want this to go forward too, though other nations are less interested at the moment...

My local MP is Rona Ambrose, so . . .yea.

If you like Free Trade, then why do you support the TPP? Analysis suggests it will be the exact opposite, and erode government's ability to create a free marketplace. And we have separate deals with the US and the EU. We don't need a deal with Brunai or Malaysia.

We don't need government interference or "control" of the economy, I've experienced that first hand and know what that entails. The "free market" in Canada is anything but free, maybe the least free of the West. Just look at the banking industry as a prime example. If you had $100B in backing you couldn't compete with them, as it wouldn't be allowed.

Canada becomes an innovative free market to compete with he rest of the world or we close shop.

And how will allowing foreign companies to sue Canada for the loss of profit on decisions the government makes going to accomplish that?

It's worked so well under NAFTA after all. UPS suing Purolator, MMT gas additives, Softwood lumber . . .

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