Mr. Chair, a lawyer who would not read a contract on behalf of their client would face a massive lawsuit, yet successive ministers are signing billion-dollar contracts but not reading them. It is beyond negligence; it is gross negligence. It is malfeasance, and it is causing devastating impacts in the auto industry.
The Liberals say there is a jobs guarantee. Can someone explain it to me? If there is a clause in the contracts that says there is a jobs guarantee, the jobs guarantee allowed Stellantis to lay off 3,000 workers in Brampton, when its total workforce at the time was a little over 8,000. Was it allowed to lay off almost 50% of its workforce? That is no jobs guarantee. If I had drafted a contract like that in first-year law school on behalf of my client, my contracts professor would have given me an F, and that is what the government has.