SummarySpren for "Factories"
- • The Canadian government is spending $40 billion on subsidies for electric car batteries, which works out to roughly $3,000 per Canadian family.
• The contracts negotiated by the government allow for the use of foreign replacement workers, rather than protecting Canadian jobs.
- • The government's contracts with NextStar Energy will expand Canada's EV battery production capacity, creating local jobs and lowering emissions to fight climate change.
• The use of foreign specialists in the installation of specialized equipment is standard practice and will not displace Canadian jobs, and the project will create 2,300 jobs during construction and 2,500 permanent jobs once operational.
- • The government is not being transparent about the contracts they have signed, and they are hiding them from the public.
• The opposition parties, including the NDP leader, have joined together to try to bury the contracts and keep them hidden from the public.
- • The Canadian government, led by the Liberal Party and supported by the NDP, has introduced a "replacement worker ban" that will make it impossible to replace striking workers with scabs.
• The government is investing in NextStar, which will have positive economic impacts and ensure high-value manufacturing activities, such as battery production, continue to occur in Canada.