The Conservative Party leader says Canada’s Prime Minister has lost his ‘elbows up’ notion, and is instead ‘elbowing Canadian workers in the face’. 

Pierre Poilievre spoke to media in Calgary Thursday morning, addressing the news that Stellantis has agreed to sell a government subsized automaker plant in Brampton, leaving 3000 people without jobs, and a slew of public money in the lurch.  

Poilievre says hundreds of millions in Candian tax dollars should not have been forked over without a job guartentee.  

“There’s two possibiliteis here. One; they had a job guaruntee and Mr. Carney did not impose that guaruntee on the company and let them take the money and run, or two; they gave away your money to this company without a job guaruntee. Either way, it is negligence on a massive scale.”

The liberal government was recently proven to be ‘heavily involved’ in the sale discussions prior to its announcement, however Carney had originally called it a ‘betrayal’ and an ‘outrage’.  

“One day Mr. carney says it’s a betrayal, the other day we find out he was involved. So, was it his betrayal?”

Poilievre adds that this move plays right into the hand of the United States in a time of tariffs on Canadian automakers. Unifor national president Lana Payne says closing and selling the plant cuts Canada’s auto vehicle production capacity by 10 per cent. 

The plant was sold to Roshel Inc., a Candian armoured vehicle maker.