SummarySpren for "Foreign workers"
- • The Liberal Minister of Industry admitted they had not read the $15-billion Stellantis contract before signing it, which will cost taxpayers $1,000 in new taxes.
• The Conservative Party has put forward a motion requiring the government to make contracts public, but the Liberals have been obstructing the motion for 10 hours with a filibuster.
- • The Liberal government has a plan to support the auto industry and Canadian workers, as evidenced by their record investments.
• The Conservative party has consistently opposed various deals and initiatives that benefit the auto industry and Canadian communities.
- • The Canadian government is considering a plan to provide a 100% subsidy for battery production for electric cars, which could cost taxpayers thousands of dollars per household.
• The Conservative party is accusing the Liberal government of obstructing a motion to release the contracts related to the plan, suggesting that the contracts must be worse than expected.
- • 2,300 Canadians will build the plant and 2,500 Canadians will build batteries, providing work for world-class trades.
• The Liberal government worked with labor to deliver the plant and will fight to protect it from Conservative attacks.
- • The NDP-Liberal government has agreed to a $15 billion subsidy for Stellantis, which works out to $6 million per job created.
• More than half of the jobs created by Stellantis may actually be coming from Korea.
- • The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (François-Philippe Champagne) is disputing the claims made by the Conservatives regarding the contract.
• The Minister is citing the leader of Unifor as support for his argument that the Conservatives do not know what they are talking about, and that the number of jobs lost in the manufacturing sector during their tenure was 300,000, not 3,000 or 30,000 as claimed by the Conservatives.