The Conservative Party of Canada is calling on the federal government to publicly release its contracts with Stellantis following the company’s announcement Tuesday that it is scrapping plans to produce the Jeep Compass in Brampton, Ont., and going with a U.S. plant instead.
The demand was made in a letter sent on Friday to Prime Minister Mark Carney by the leader of the official opposition, Pierre Poilievre.
“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,” Poilievre wrote in the letter.
In 2023, Nextstar Energy, a joint venture between Stellantis and LG, reached a deal with the federal and Ontario governments for its $5-billion dollar electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont
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