Release the Stellantis contracts
Ottawa, ON – Today, the Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition, sent a letter to Prime Minister Carney demanding the release of the government’s contracts with Stellantis after the mass outsourcing of jobs from the automaker’s Brampton plant:
Dear Prime Minister,
Three days ago, over 3,000 Stellantis workers got a call that Jeep production would be moving out of Brampton to the US. Despite billions in Liberal subsidies, the automaker is moving jobs and investment to Illinois, leaving former employees wondering how they will pay their mortgages and put food on the table.
They join seven hundred GM workers in Oshawa, and five hundred CAMI workers in Ingersoll who had already lost their jobs after you failed to ‘handle’ Donald Trump and get a deal by July 21st. You promised to ‘negotiate a win,’ but the only thing auto workers got was the pink slip.
You claimed yesterday that Stellantis is obligated to keep jobs in Brampton, yet auto workers have been left in the dark about what Canadians got for the $10 billion your government promised to that company.
To be clear, it was your Finance Minister who negotiated the Stellantis deal hemorrhaging jobs from the same industry your government committed billions in subsidies to. It’s time for this government to come clean. Today, I am calling on you to release those contracts so Canadians can know the job protections you did (or didn’t) secure for workers across the sector.
Canadians remember that when you had a chance to keep Brookfield’s headquarters in Canada in the face of Trump’s tariffs, you sold us out and supported the company’s move to New York.
That decision came just five days after Trump threatened the unjustified tariffs that are now devastating our auto, forestry, steel and aluminum industries. But you chose to lie to Canadians and put your corporate and personal financial interests first.
As Prime Minister, you have continued capitulating to Trump, failing to defend our auto sector in Washington after being repeatedly praised by the American President. Just a day after your October 7th meeting with the President, the U.S. Commerce Secretary confirmed the tariffs on our finished autos will be permanent.
Prime Minister, is this what you consider a win? Canadian auto workers can’t feed their families on this government’s shallow rhetoric or Trump-inflated ego. They need jobs and deserve to know if the Liberals had their back when you committed billions in taxpayer subsidies to the companies now abandoning them.
Now is the chance for you to finally stand up for our auto, lumber, steel and agriculture sectors instead of bending to Trump.
Conservatives will hold you to your promises, stand up for Canadian workers and industry and ensure you deliver the ‘win’ you promised.
That starts with releasing the Stellantis contracts, so Canadians can know what kind of deal we got.