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The Dashboard
March 2016 //
Canadian Government Executive /
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Sources:
The Council of Canadians,
http://canadians.org/tppSources: The
Angus Reid
Institute,
http://angusreid.
org/trans-pacific-
partnership-
october-2015/
Issues Government Executives need to know about the TPP
Government Procurement
– Foreign companies have same rights as
local companies to government contracts thereby impacting buy local programs
Diminished sovereignty
– Corporations gain the right to sue
governments for changes in policies that may have negative impact on profit
Lack of transparency
– TPP-related disputes will take place behind closed
doors and outside judicial due process. Decisions will be binding.
What Canadians think of the TPP
41%
33%
35%
32%
11%
21%
21%
20%
48%
46%
44%
49%
Apr-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Jan-16
Support for joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership 2015-16
Support
Oppose
Can't say/Don't know
$4.3-billion
– That’s the amount of subsidy the
government has promised over a 15-year period to protect
current revenues of dairy, chicken and egg farmers.
TPP countries get duty free access to 3.25 per cent of the
Canadian dairy market and 2.1 per cent of our poultry market
45 per cent
of a vehicle’s content must come from Canada
in order to avoid tariffs. NAFTA required 62.5 per cent.
$158.6 billion
– That’s the annual value of Canadian metal
and mineral exports to TPP countries from 2012-2014. This
includes petroleum products, potash, precious metals, iron,
steel, aluminum and nickel.
By the Numbers