Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Responds To Oshawa Plant Closure
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded to General Motors‘ decision to close its assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario in 2019.
The liberal head of state tweeted his support for the 2,800 workers at GM’s Oshawa Assembly plant today, pledging to do what he could to help the families affected by the closure. He also said he spoke to GM CEO Mary Barra about the matter on the Sunday and expressed his disappointment in her company’s decision to cease its manufacturing operations in the city.
I had a good call with Premier Ford today – we’re united in support for workers in Oshawa, and we’ll work together to do everything we can to help the people and communities affected.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) November 26, 2018
Despite Trudeau’s efforts, it seems unlikely that he’ll be able to change GM’s mind. The decision to shutter the Oshawa facility is part of a large restructuring at the company that will also see it close plants in Lordstown, Ohio and Hamtramck, Michigan. These closures will spell the end of the Chevrolet Cruze, Impala, and Volt, along with the Cadillac CT6 and XTS and the Buick LaCrosse. Further closures are set for two US transmission plants and two other plants outside of North America, helping to save the company $6 billion by 2020. The automaker plans to sink more funds into its electric and autonomous vehicle efforts going forward.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford was pressed by the NDP in the Canadian legislature today, the social democratic party criticizing him for not doing enough about the plant closure. His response painted a grim outlook of the situation for those in Oshawa, with the premier saying GM refused to go back on its decision.
“They’re gone. They’re done,” Ford said of the automaker. “They told me straight up there’s nothing we can do.”
Workers at the Oshawa site walked off the job today after news of the plant’s future surfaced. Unifor, the union representing them, refused to accept GM’s decision and demanded the automaker adhere to the terms of the contract it ratified in 2016, which prevented GM from closing the site earlier than September 2020.
Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Women Deliver
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Sam, we know you are Canadian and a Liberal. So your bias here is obvious.
However, PM Justin Trudeau and the Liberals ARE EXACTLY WHY GM is leaving! Their backward socialist policies and grandstanding are why Canada is in an economic and political mess now. Sam, the Liberal government that drove out auto manufacturing in Ontario, home to the Oshawa plant, was the problem…and WHY Ontario citizens kicked the bums out last election. Liberals were rejected so badly the lost their official party status and a Pro-Trump elected in its place! Stop with the political spin, you Liberals were also rejected in the second biggest province and Trudeau has record-low support and won’t win re-election next year.
So where was Trudeau the idiot leader of our country BEFORE GM cut production and jobs. Why didnt he negotiate BEFORE not take to political grandstanding on Twitter AFTER it happens?
Explains why the Liberal leader has record low support in opinion polls, about half of T r u m p ‘ s poll number, and his Liberal socialist party just lost elections in the two biggest provinces including losing official party status in Ontario, home to Oshawa, becuase their support was so low.
Hey, Sam, if you are such a proud Canadian and want to support Canada spewing your nationalistic liberal agenda with Canada this and that and Liberal this and that, then why are you living and working in the U.S.A.?
Just sayin’, buddy…
Yikes. Didn’t mean to show any bias and definitely don’t have any. Would agree with you that it’s not good to grandstand on Twitter about this afterward as well.
Thank you for reading though
Unfortunately I can also see the bias whether you can or not…
* Glowing picture of Trudeau smiling…CHECK
* Amazing LIBERAL leader Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…Liberal Head of State…so formal, respectful…CHECK
* No mention that Trudeau has historic low poll numbers amongst Canadians…CHECK
* Make it seem like Trudeau tried so hard for Ontario workers when it is his Liberal party that was in power nationally and in Ontario when GM made the decision to close Oshawa…CHECK
* Don’t show Conservative Ontario Premiere Doug Ford’s Twitter to give the full picture which clearly stated how upset he was and BEFORE Trudeau…CHECK.
* Conveniently leave out that Doug Ford is a Conservative and no don’t emphasize his formal title like Trudeau…or that the Ontario people voted him in in a landslide because the Liberals screwed up things like GM in Ontario…CHECK
* Use the NDP which is on the complete opposite side of the political spectrum as Ford’s Conservatives to qualify his efforts… negatively of course…CHECK
No, no inherent BIAS at all..
I don’t do Twitter, don’t worry. Lol
Unfortunately, there are a number of American trolls here who don’t know the difference between federal and provincial politics, and continue to incorrectly assume the Canadian political structure functions as a carbon copy of their own. It’s even more obvious when then call themselves Canadian and then make fatal mistakes in saying that Trudeau isn’t the PM anymore and that Doug Ford is.
They’re so conditioned that they’d jump into action if you typed ‘conservative’. But if you typed ‘tory’, it would go right over their heads.
Or Grits, or Dippers. As a Canadian I have no right to comment on anything in the American political system (hint to trolls-it goes both ways). If a commenter is Canadian I’d appreciate if you stuff it because I’m hear to read about GM going down in flames as a distraction from Canada going down in flames. Unfortunately the Oshawa plant is both.
I deal in FACTS:
(A) The Ontario Liberal government was soundly rejected, a.k.a. defeated by the newly formed Conservative government of Premiere Doug Ford that the Liberals lost official party status.
(B) The Liberal government was rejected because of policies like the ones that led to GM leaving…high energy costs, stifling labour laws and crazy high taxes and debt to fund their failed social policies were just some.
(C) The decision to close the Oshawa GM plant was made under the former Liberal government and the former government failed to change their mind. Conservative Ontario Premiere Doug Ford JUST too power and so inherited the mess left by the Liberals…see (b) for reference.
(D) Liberal PM Justin Trudeau bad-mouthed President T R U M P and the Americans on many occasions thinking it would make him look all Alpha male…it didn’t and backfired spectacularly. Karma.
(E) Mexico outsmarted Liberal Justin Trudeau and signed the USMCA that replaces NAFTA first (even though Sean S. told us it would still be NAFTA)…Mexico got the upper hand in trade with the U.S. and is now reaping the benefits while Trudeau’s gamble and hubris against the Americans collapsed and Canadians are paying dearly for it now. Note to Trudeau: American is larger, more powerful, has a population 10 times that of Canada but an economy over 100 times and feeds Canadians through 85% of all trade going to the U.S. and American companies employing Canadians, paying health and other taxes, and generally keeping Canada alive.
(F) Liberal PM Trudeau has record-low support and is on track to lose the election next year…just like his Liberal were booted out in Ontario and Quebec this year.
No more Fake News or political spin, please.
Well done LevelheadedCanadian. As a fellow Canadian all I can add is that Trudeau lacks any understanding of what it takes to run a business or a country.
^ LOL! LevelheadedCanadian, your entire post was a political hack job / political spin, and yet you call for no more political spin! What a joke.
I’m certainly no fan of Trudeau, but really? So the U.S. generally keeps Canada alive? Trade goes 2 ways. You failed to mention that the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario helped bail out General Motors with about $3 billion back in 2008-2009. If it wasn’t for that assistance to GM there might not have been a GM to talk about now. How soon people forget…
Here is the problem in a nutshell! Hopefully you get it via the link …
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/poilievre-trudeau-admits-budget-will-never-balance-itself