QUESTION PERIOD — Employment and Social Development
Electric Vehicle Battery Plant
April 30, 2024
Leader, the Trudeau government is telling Canadians that giving 50 billion of their tax dollars to corporations would create jobs for Canadian workers.
Canada’s Building Trades Unions recently wrote to Prime Minister Trudeau about the heavy use of foreign replacement workers at the Stellantis battery plant in Windsor. The organization claims that the situation became worse after a meeting in March between the Prime Minister and company executives, when the corporation became emboldened and increased the number of foreign workers at the site.
This incompetent Prime Minister is not worth the cost. Just how bad was the deal that the Trudeau government negotiated? Will you release the contracts so we can see them?
Thank you for your question.
The contracts that the government enters into are often subject to a number of well-understood commercial limitations in terms of divulgation. That allows both the government and the suppliers to proceed in the best interests of the project to which the contract refers. So, I’ve not been advised that the government will be releasing details at this juncture.
That was a long-winded “no,” leader.
When I asked you in November about jobs at the Windsor plant, your response was, “Nothing to see here.” If that were the case, why do you think Canada’s Building Trades Unions wrote to the Prime Minister about specific jobs going to replacement workers? Why do you think Liberal MPs filibustered at committee last fall? Why do you think they and their NDP partners voted yesterday to keep the contracts hidden? Why do you hide the contracts if you are proud of the deal that was negotiated?
Time doesn’t permit me to answer the seven questions you managed to ask. The fact remains that this government is engaged with its provincial counterparts and the private sector, both here and abroad, to provide opportunities for Canadians and for the growth of our economy. It will continue to do so in the best interests of Canadians.
