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44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 21, 2023 10:00AM
  • Nov/21/23 3:12:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister should take a lesson from just about anyone willing to give it, and I will tell members why. The unemployment rate in Windsor is 7%. They are bringing in 1,600 workers from Korea. This plant is going to cost $1,000 per Canadian family. Every unemployed union worker in Windsor could have these jobs. Instead, these incompetent, arrogant Liberals are giving the jobs to 1,600 Koreans. Will the minister promise right now that the jobs will go to hard-working Canadians, not workers from any other country, including Korea?
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  • Nov/21/23 3:19:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. In my question today, I asked the minister whether there were going to be 1,600 workers from Korea. On his way into the House of Commons, he was asked that question and he said, “I'm not surprised” that there would be a “transfer of knowledge” as “no one has done batteries in North America before.” Therefore, he is admitting there will be those workers and then accusing me of misinformation. He should withdraw—
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