Pierre Poilievre issued a warning call.
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Will anybody listen?
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“I’m telling you, we are at a breaking point,” Canada’s opposition leader said emotionally outside the newly sold Stellantis plant in Brampton on Tuesday.
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leader → tell → Tuesday
“The working class in this country is just hanging on by its fingernails.”
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And some are not hanging on at all.
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You could see that reality in the shuttered auto plant behind him as he addressed the media.
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This plant is an example of thousands of good-paying auto-plant jobs disappearing under President Donald. J Trump’s America — and they likely aren’t coming back in the numbers that are leaving.
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More than 2,000 direct jobs at this plant are affected, as well as many more feeder jobs from nearby suppliers or local businesses such as restaurants, pubs and coffee shops.
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In some cases, you will see padlocks on the doors in the nearby plazas.
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Poilievre said this is becoming all too commonplace.
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“It is desperate out there,” said Poilievre.
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“I would say four or five times a day now I have people come up to me in tears, saying they have no idea how they’re going to make it.”
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It’s not a Canadian dream.
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It’s a nightmare.
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And because it’s happening in a drip, drip, drip kind of way, people are not noticing there is a puddle all around working and non-working Canadians that may soon be up around their ears.
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“This can’t go on,” Poilievre declared.
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“Our people deserve a better life than this.
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I will commit to you that we will fight for you every single day.
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My message to Canadians is don’t give up.”
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But Poilevre went further.
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He wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to fire Industry Minister Melanie Joly for her part in the unsuccessful taxpayer investment into Stellantis and he wants the government to “sue them” and get back the billions of “your money” that has been lost.
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Carney, however, pushed back on the notion that his government is doing nothing and said the government will “enforce” the agreements that protect Canadian tax dollars.
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“The situation at the Brampton plant is unacceptable,” Carney told reporters.
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“It violates the obligations that Stellantis has under several agreements.
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PM says he’ll make Stellantis pay the money back
Carney said on Tuesday that “we will fully enforce our rights in protection of those workers and in protection of Canadian funds.”
While Stellantis has said it will voluntarily pay back the money taken from taxpayers to re-tool the Brampton operation, many, including Poilievre, are skeptical.
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“Are they going to pay back the full $15 billion?’ he asked.
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He’s also not ready to accept “good Canadian company” Roshel buying this plant will be the cure to this mess.
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Time will tell if this defence contractor will be able to create the jobs and pay for non-union workers building their armored vehicles.
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While Carney paints a rosier picture, Poilievre positioned what’s happening here and with other plant closures as nothing more than an economic freefall.
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“Last night, here in this community, moms and dads sat down at dinner tables with children and told them that life will never be the same, that they will have to sell their homes and move into a small apartment with high rent, that there will be no more hockey, no more vacations, and mostly just Kraft Dinner or whatever the family can find at the local food bank,” said an angry and animated Poilievre.
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He added that some “three thousand Canadian jobs are moving to the United States with nothing but vague promises of a smaller number of jobs for an undefined group of workers with lower pay than they had before.”
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Poilievre said “Carney’s Liberals have betrayed our workers.
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They’ve handed Donald Trump another trophy and they’ve cost billions of tax dollars to Canadians.
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Mark Carney promised elbows up.
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Instead, he elbowed our auto workers in the face.”
Canada’s auto sector dying
And it was heated out there in front of the plant as well.
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A couple dozen UNIFOR representatives protested at the front of the gate of the plant and let it be known that an environmental soil sampling team coming into the property to test the ground there would not be permitted to enter.
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Peel Regional Police and Stellantis security members were on hand, but eventually it was decided there would be no attempt to breach the line.
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This shows the kind of turmoil going on in Canada right now.
“After 10 years of Liberal rule, Canada’s auto sector is collapsing.
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In 2016, we produced 2.2 million vehicles in Canada.
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Today, it’s 1.2 million, down by half.
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…and 3 more, not listed.
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