75% of Canadians have ‘never heard of TPP’

The majority of Canadians don’t know that their government is negotiating with 11 other countries in one of the biggest international free trade deals known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a recent poll suggests.

The poll was conducted by the Environics Research Group for Trade Justice Network (TJN) has found that 75 percent of respondents have not heard of the TTP – a major deal which aims to link 40 percent of the world's economy.

Three out of four respondents said that they were concerned that Canada’s participation in TPP is being negotiated in secret with no input, according to the poll. Eighty-three per cent of respondents were concerned that the deal could include a provision allowing multinational corporations to sue Canadian government under trade tribunals which would lead to a loss of profits, it said.

 A total of 1,002 Canadians took part in the poll conducted by telephone June 3-12 according to TJN, which put the accuracy of the results within 3.2 percentage points - 19 times out of 20. Full story...

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