Kanadische Arbeitsplätze „werden auf Trumps Altar geopfert“, als Stellantis US-Investitionen ankündigt
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/canada-auto-stellantis-us-investment
Kanadische Arbeitsplätze „werden auf Trumps Altar geopfert“, als Stellantis US-Investitionen ankündigt
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/canada-auto-stellantis-us-investment
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News snippet; Canadian jobs are being “sacrificed on the Trump altar”, union leaders have warned, after the automaker Stellantis announced plans to transfer production of one Jeep model to the United States.
Stellantis announced what it described as its largest US investment push in its 100-year history, saying the $13bn cash injection would create 5,000 jobs across the midwestern United States.
Stellantis told AFP that “as part of this announcement, we will move one model from Canada to the US.”
Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union representing thousands of autoworkers, said the model in question was the Jeep Compass, which will shift from a plant in Brampton, Ontario, to Illinois.
Unifor leaders said the jobs were yet more casualties of Donald Trump’s trade war.
“Canadian auto jobs are being sacrificed on the Trump altar,” Lana Payne, Unifor’s national president, said in a statement, calling on Mark Carney’s government “to use Canada’s leverage now to fight for our auto jobs”.
Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, called the announcement “painful” for workers.
2018: [The Liberal government has quietly written off a $2.6-billion auto-sector loan that was cobbled together to save Chrysler during the 2009 global economic meltdown. The write-off, among the largest ever for a taxpayer-funded bailout, is buried in a volume of the 2018 Public Accounts of Canada, tabled in Parliament. At the time of the 2009 auto-sector bailouts in Canada and the United States, Chrysler was split in two: an „Old Chrysler“ that went into bankruptcy and a „New Chrysler“ that became viable and remains in operation today. (…) The international firm, [Fiat Chrysler] reported net profits of $4.3 billion US for 2017.](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrysler-auto-loan-canada-account-write-off-edc-bailout-taxpayer-wudrick-milke-1.4871648)
Is this even a car company anymore? It seems like they rely on government handouts to stay operational. And for what? For the billions we gave away to them, the Canadian government could own a slice of the company and have a say. But we don’t.
It’s time to stop relying on foreign boardrooms that pander to hostile autocrats.