NEW ZEALAND: Activists fixed themselves in cement outside the office of Labour MP Ruth Dyson in Christchurch yesterday in protest at the pending signing of the successor to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Trade Minister David Parker is due to sign the CPTPP — effectively the TPP but without the US — in Chile, despite Labour opposing the TPP.

Our Children’s Future activist Gen de Spa, standing shin-deep in concrete, said the deal would make New Zealand “vulnerable to being sued by overseas corporations when we go against their profits.”