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Title: Kill the Auto Pact
Description: In 1965 Canada signed the Auto Pact with the US. It allowed US automakers free access to the Canadian market, but in exchange they had to produce a fair share of their vehicles in Canada. Thanks to that treaty, CanadaÕs auto industry boomed, creating tens of thousands of high-wage jobs, helping to make CanadaÕs auto industry the most successful in the world. But in 2001, the WTO ruled that it was no longer legal under free trade rules for Canada to put conditions on free access to our auto market. They ordered Canada to kill the Auto Pact. Now big US automakers can close Canadian plants at any time, and throw thousands out of work.
Originally published in: Globalization: who's winning and who's losing, 2004. Canadian Labour Congress.
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