Mr. Chair, they are devastated. Unionized workers in the auto industry are devastated, and they are terrified of what is coming down the pipe. I was speaking with people at GM in Oshawa, and there is a factory in the U.S. being retooled right now, the Orion plant, that is going to manufacture light-duty vehicles. Guess what GM manufactures in Oshawa: light and heavy-duty vehicles. As a result of the tariffs, what the Prime Minister thinks is the best deal in the world, manufacturing of light-duty vehicles could be transferred from Oshawa to the Orion plant, which is going to start manufacturing in Q1 of 2027.
This is a decimation of the auto industry, and all the Liberals say is “It is a trade war.” Wait a minute; the Liberals ran on the platform that they could solve the trade war. Meanwhile we are hollowing out the middle class, hollowing out the auto sector and losing lots of good-paying unionized jobs.