Your hosts this week, Lynn Terry Haig, and Marc
The twelve nations negotiating a huge international trade deal, have finally reached agreement.
Known as the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP, the deal represents 40 percent of the world economy.
The federal government said it’s an important deal for Canada’s trade future. There had been great concerns about what Canada would have to negotiate away in order to reach agreement.
This was especially so for the automobile sector and for dairy and poultry farmers who operate under a protective national supply-management system.
The broad outline of the deal has been announced, but not the details. Many sectors however have given mitigated approval to the deal, But some are not convinced.
Marc spoke with respected economist Atif Kubursi, formerly a high ranking official with the U.N. and now professor emeritus at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
The current federal election campaign ends on October 19th. It has been one of the longest campaigns in recent history.
Issues range from the economy, to taxes, to refugees, to the niqab and more.
There have been a number of leader debates as well, sometimes heated as one might expect. Through it all though is the fact that voter turnout has typically remained steady through several elections at about 60 percent.
This time there is a massive ad hoc effort (several really) to encourage people to get out and vote.
But will it be successful? Lynn spoke to Heather Bastedo, a former professor of political science at Queen’s University.
It’s been a long long time, 22 years in fact, for baseball fans in Canada to see their lone major league baseball team reach the post season
The Toronto Blue Jays have begun their quarter final series against their American League rivals, the Texas Rangers.
Although the Jays were the favourites, they lost their first game
Terry Haig talks to Richard Griffin, the baseball columnist for the Toronto Star about the hopes for the Jays and what they’re up against.
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