Crowds have gathered along Riverside Drive Thursday morning for a rally to protest the Trans Pacific Partnership.

The Council of Canadians are welcoming the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade to Windsor just before planned hearings get underway on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The council plans on reminding the trade committee, composed of MPs from three federal parties, about the growing opposition to the TPP.

The group issetting up a speakers’ corner for anyone wishing to send a video message to the committee.

Unifor, the council and allies joined to the Windsor and District Labour Council at 10 a.m. outside the hearing venue, the Best Western Plus Waterfront Hotel.