Worried about foreign workers, Conservatives demand details of $15B Honda EV deal – By John Paul Tasker (CBC News) / April 29, 2024
‘Canadian workers are being sidelined without consequence,’ union says of NextStar site in Windsor, Ont.
Conservative MPs are pushing Ottawa to release details of its agreement with Honda Canada to build a sprawling electric vehicle operation in southern Ontario — disclosure they say is necessary to ensure Canadians get all the jobs in the multi-billion-dollar project.
The push for transparency comes after Canada’s Building Trades Union (CBTU) wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this month asking him to intervene on another EV project, the NextStar plant in Windsor, Ont. that’s backed by Chrysler parent company Stellantis and Korean firm LG.
The union said foreign workers are displacing Canadian labourers at the NextStar construction site while 180 local millwrights and ironworkers are unemployed and available to perform the necessary work.
“Canadian workers are now being replaced by international workers at an increasing pace, on work that was previously assigned to Canadian workers,” wrote Sean Strickland, CBTU’s executive director, in an April 10 letter to Trudeau.
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