Peter Van Giesen

Ford letter to PM: Chinese EV kits must not be assembled at Brampton plant ctvnews.ca/business/autos/ar…

Aujourd’hui, je me souviens. Je me souviens de celles et ceux qui ont fait l'ultime sacrifice pour défendre le Québec et nos valeurs de paix, de liberté et de démocratie. Au sein de chacun des conflits impliquant des Québécois depuis le début du XXe siècle, nos héros se sont illustrés. Certains sont plus connus que d’autres, comme Léo Major, les soldats du Royal 22e Régiment ou encore ceux du Régiment de la Chaudière, alors que d’autres, moins connus, sont tombés au combat dans l'anonymat. Tous leurs efforts et leurs sacrifices ont compté également dans cette lutte que nous avons menée collectivement pour la démocratie et la liberté. Enfin, je pense aussi à ces milliers d'hommes et de femmes qui ont consacré leur vie au service public, en portant l'uniforme. Aux vétérans, quels qu'ils soient, je dis merci au nom de la nation québécoise. Prenons donc la journée pour nous souvenir de ceux et celles qui ont donné leur vie ou l'ont consacrée à nous défendre, de ceux et celles qui sont revenus marqués physiquement ou psychologiquement, de ceux et celles qui servent actuellement en zone de conflit et des familles de chacun et chacune d’entre eux.

The Brampton Plant is 2.6M sf/230 acres. Probably $500M to buy. The buyer would need ~$200M deposit & service a ~$300M mortgage ~$24M in annual payments. That’s a massive barrier for a small company upfitting a few vehicles a day. Lenders don’t do favours. Make it make sense.

The math is still exactly how I laid it out here re Brampton Stellantis. Don’t debate the math of auto production unless you bring numbers. Words about “not being negative” are not numbers. This is not over. If that sounds like a warning, then you’re not on the right side.

What @melaniejoly is neglecting to say is that the contracts have an explicit exception: if circumstances beyond Stellantis’s control make the plant commercially unviable, they’re free and clear (provided they showed reasonable efforts to find alternatives). It’s hard to argue Trump’s 25% tariffs didn’t do exactly that.

Roshel is buying what is essentially an abandoned plant and will be producing products there and employing people there. This should be celebrated. They are under no obligation to hire former Stellantis workers nor do they need to pay what Stellantis paid. They are not buying Stellantis Canada. They are buying a piece of real estate. Period. theglobeandmail.com/business…

I spoke with CP24 tonight about the agreement to sell the Brampton Assembly Plant to Roshel. While I welcome the chance for a Brampton company to bring manufacturing back to the site, my urgent concern is for the members of Unifor Local 1285 and their families. Stellantis needs to reach a fair resolution with these workers, and I want to see Roshel work with Local 1285 to connect laid-off Brampton autoworkers with good-paying jobs. Stellantis must also pay back the provincial and federal taxpayer money it received to support automotive production in Brampton.

This is the straight goods on Brampton, Stellantis, Roshel and why none of this is good for Canada. Unfiltered. cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7…

“A lot of promises were made by gov’ts to fight for this industry, and fight for autoworkers. Right now, in Brampton, there is anger and feelings of betrayal. That’s a terrible feeling. But I can say one thing, this fight isn’t over,” says Unifor Local 1285 President Vito Beato.

The sale the Brampton Stellantis plant marks one of the biggest impacts yet of the trade war on Canada, with nearly 3000 jobs likely gone Brampton Ottawa saying the company still has commitments to the workers after taking federal cash, UNIFOR calls it a betrayal, Stellantis says it will return the plant to productive industrial use and the buyer, Roschel, is promising a Centre of Excellence for advanced manufacturing, that aligns with the Carney governments objectives of increasing domestic military production #cdnpoli

Poilievre: “They literally have mothers who drop on their knees begging for food because they can't feed their kids.” Also Poilievre: *votes NO for National School Food Program* And performative Pierre doesn’t realise you don’t need to beg to get food at Canada’s food banks.

Not just this decision, but the underhanded way the company did it, are affronts to all Canadians. We need the federal government to play a more in-your-face role to hold corporate renegades like Stellantis and Stelco to account. #Shame

This is what needs to be said, & if anything, it’s a bit late. Melanie Joly has been hapless in this role, represented her involvement fraudulently, & is a literal Marvel movie villain in selling 🇨🇦 out. History won’t be kind. I said what I said.

The CEO of Roshel just went on live national television to take blunt, pointed journalist questions from Ian. So he deserves a heck of a lot of credit for that. He stressed that the plant will remain automotive in its purpose AND laid off Brampton workers will get priority hiring. He also vowed that Roshel will create thousands of jobs. Roshel is a Canadian owned company headquartered in Brampton. So it seems that today's news was badly communicated and rolled out and Roshel is now trying to fix that.

Hoekstra thinks Carney and Trump could sign a trade deal by Jan. 1 ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tari…

Last week Carney said he could wait 2 1/2 years without a trade deal with the US Moments after calling byelections, Carney suddenly changed his tune He picked up the phone, called Trump, and announced he was restarting talks What a coincidence … It’s pretty clear at this point that Trudeau and Carney are actors in their own theatre and they expect Canadians to be nothing but spectators

It’s featured on this nearby table, vous etes un clown.

Judge Carney on what he does, not what he says. Last week, I called Mark Carney’s bluff on energy infrastructure. It turns out he loves to talk big but was never serious about building new energy capacity. He just wants more Liberal bureaucracy and more regulation. We could have had 250,000 barrels of oil going to the Pacific coast and on to customers in Asia within two years, without a penny of taxpayer money involved. All Mark Carney needed to do was sign a piece of paper giving the same tanker ban exemption he gave to the Port of Vancouver. He voted against it.

The @CPC_HQ either fundamentally misunderstands the debt-to-GDP ratio or is deliberately trying to mislead the public. Kudos to Mark Gerretsen for once again calling out the Conservative rhetoric and explaining the real situation