Ron Butler warned about this weeks ago, but somehow it was never an item for discussion during the recent joke of an election.
Unifor said in a statement released Friday morning that the Oshawa Assembly Plant will go from three shifts to two starting this fall, citing tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
A General Motors spokesperson confirmed to CityNews that the Oshawa plant will be returning to a two-shift operation “in light of forecasted demand and the evolving trade environment.”
Good
Yup. The “Let’s not Discuss” list was a long one … agreed to by all.
Let’s not discuss:
The Jabs
Suppression of freedoms
How the 22 months of wuhan flu lockdowns – supported by all Parties – contributed to this effin mess.
The absolute counter-productivity of green policies
etc.
etc.
etc 1: we’re worse off now then during the last panic due to the consequences of the policy enacted to mitigate that crisis.
etc 2: we’re worse off now then the panic before last due to the consequences of the policy enacted to mitigate that crisis.
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Don’t worry… Marx Carnage and the World Economic Forum are gonna save you!
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Fingers up…
I care as much about Ontario’s Trump auto tariff problems as Ontario cares about China’s 100% tarrifs on Saskatchewan canola and the federal Liberal government’s constant attacks on Alberta’s oil and gas industry. Just like the Brampton Boomer, I’ve got my middle fingers up to central and eastern Canada.
Might be time to reflect upon a quote from an American: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
The Ontario autoworkers, the Saskatchewan farmers, the Albertan oil workers, the BC loggers, the Maritimes fishermen, and yes, even the Quebec workers…they are all your countrymen and thus deserve your care. They are all getting the same treatment; you should be trying to find a way to work together.
Many voted in a way you didn’t want, but how many voted the same way you did? And how many would vote in a way pleasing to you if you presented something different? (again, see the U.S., see Britain just today — those people were not all Team Blue/Team Red, but they did have a common cause) Is my President a ‘rock ribbed conservative Republican’? What HAVE those gotten my people in the last few decades really? If they were so good, why did so many Americans not like or trust them, why did they continue to lose the majority of the people? Americans on here, please chime in — who exactly voted for Trump and who exactly opposed him?
Take your country, your whole country back, make it better. You think the people of Timisoara in 1989 were nervous, afraid even? Had all the proverbial cards stacked against them? Did they let that stop them? (look it up if you don’t know) Are you even facing what they did?
Canada was designed broken and there is nothing short of a complete dismantle and recreation that can solve it and this Albertan has simply given up on even trying. Alberta Independence and If Sask and BC want to join Alberta they are welcome so long as we can agree on governance structure that SEVERELY limits the power of said government.
You’re probably right.
That’s why we want to take ALL of it…or…we situate ourselves to get the best deals for our people from whatever becomes of it.
Your new PM should be making a trip to see my President in the next few weeks; your elections have given us some excellent leverage. Thanks!
Nope. Central Canadian voters and politicians have being oppressing and abusing Alberta and Saskatchewan for 50 years. Basically, many Alberta and Saskatchewan people are at the same point in history as Americans were before the declaration of independence. Would you have told them to comply with the abusive British monarchy and stop with all of that talk of freedom and independence.
Canada has a peaceful process for provinces to gain independence so a separation movement and referendum are a legitimate exercise of the democratic process.
LC
You clowns out west are totally lacking in self awareness, I saw that when I had customers out there 40 years ago, and posters in here prove that that is still so today.
The federal Liberal party and Ontario Progressive Conservative party wasted about 50 billion dollars of taxpayer money on EV auto “investments” that promptly failed. The voters in Ontario then voted both of those political parties back into power. Who are the clowns?
I shudder to think of all the customers you serviced at that gloryhole fourty years ago. The posters are likely of Corey Haim…for motivation.
A house divided against itself was probably designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Why do we want to make cars?
They symbolize the freedom of the individual to think and move independently.
And in a WEF post-nation, you’ll own jack shit and take mass fcking transit.
Oshawa doesn’t care, so neither should anyone else.
When the automaker wanted to expand the runway at the Oshawa airport by a thousand feet so they could land bigger aircraft transporting parts and keep the plant operating efficiently, the city of Oshawa told them to pound sand.
Shut it all down, who cares…
Cut off their electricity Dougie! Hahahahahaha. Elbows up
Is the Employment Insurance that eastern industries regularly use to have a low cost trained workforce available subsidized somehow by various levels of government or transfer payments?
When the US Big Beautiful bill is signed. Americans who purchase an American built auto will be able to deduct their car loan interest costs on their income tax.
So let’s see, “If I buy an American built car I get a tax deduction, if it is an imported car no Tax deduction”
No brainer for the average car buyer.
The US won’t need Tariffs on Auto’s in the future, the income tax deduction will make the decision for most people.
Americans won’t need Canadian or Mexican built cars
My truck (2024) was built in Michigan. Says so on the inside of the door. Canada produces almost 2 million cars per year and only 12% are sold in Canada. It’s going to get ugly before Canada lowers its elbows. Ontario’s auto industry will be hardest hit as they have the most to lose. Occasionally the good times do come to an end.
Was that plant using Chinese parts?.. Many GM products are made in China.
I am a contrarian and I think we are long overdue for a recessions (should have had one in 2018 as from my lived experience, they happen every 8-10 years). Canada and the western world had a small man-made recession because of the Covid 19 lock downs. I am a Capitalist and Conservative. Recessions are needed to course correct the “irrational exuberance” of the markets and to teach people to save for a rainy day. Sadly, the concept of saving (Canada was a nation of savers until the advent of Trudeau 1.0) has gone out the window. I have heard crazy stories (at exercise class) of people in their 20’s and 30’s expecting their parents to pay off their maxed out credit cards. And just yesterday, a good friend in Toronto told me of an in-law story where the cousins of her daughter-in-law expect their parents to pay for lip injections so that they can look like the Kardashians.
GM Oshawa was one of my customers at one time, and WORK is not one of the strong points in that schitthole.
auto workers unions.
tell me about them.
lived in st catharines 1975 to 1990ish.
‘GM Town’ engine plant and axle forging plant.
sold less that 6 months BEFORE the big closure.
the other thin l recollect from those in the know if you showed up in
a non-GM vehicle esp japanese be prepared to have it vandalized.
until you ‘toed the line’. funny isnt it the pedigree of a passenger vehicle today from all over the world, mehico, japooonngggg, deutchland, Canaduh, throw in Taiwan for the digital electronics, but but but but MADE IN CANADA or . . . . . the tires cant hold air???
Sorry Canada, Trump is right. US automakers don’t need Canada to make vehicles.
They’re made in Ontario, despite it being one of the most expensive places in the world to build a car.
Which is why the government has to bribe them on a regular basis to keep the plants operating.
A lot of US manufacturing is migrating to southern states, which have right to work laws, which mean you don’t have to belong to a union.
In Canada, opting out of the union is not an option.
Unifor can’t compete with that.