Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

So it's not about cars or EVs or jobs.
It's just plain old stupid racism, Doug.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stellantis-plant-brampton-ontario-ev-ford-9.7151265

#Canada #EV #China #Cars #Manufacturing #Jobs #DougFord

Ontario 'dead against' Stellantis talks to build Chinese EVs at Brampton plant: Ford | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reacted to reports that Stellantis is in talks with a Chinese automobile manufacturer about the possibility of building Chinese electric vehicles in Canada at its idled ⁠Brampton assembly plant.

CBC
Apr 2 at 5:40pmWeb
Show threadAmgine17h ago

@chris

While Occam's razor agrees, it could also be a simpler conflict of interest: the north american automaker's hegemony against EVs protects the Ford family fortunes.

Show threadJean-François Mezei17h ago
@Amgine @chris reading between lines: Ontario car parts manufacturer lobbied Dog Ford against this because the Chinese cars would be assembled without buying car parts from the lobbyist.
Show threadAmgine17h ago

@jfmezei @chris

There is a far greater risk to NAAM than there is to Canada's APMA.

It is also pointless to oppose this in Canada, as Mexico is already retailing and assembling.

But, being egalitarian, I see no reason why **all three** really bad/illogical reasons cannot all be true.

Show threadEllipsis... 🇨🇦17h ago
@chris the union has been raising some legitimate concerns about the role of Canadian auto-parts supply chain in Chinese EV assembly. I'm not saying that this is reason enough to stop the plan, but it's not unreasonable.
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸17h ago
@tobiaspatton I hear that. And as union person I am sensitive to that. But also as a realist, I know that China, and their automakers in particular, have pioneered new manufacturing processes ("dark factories” there was a good CBC report this week) that will inevitably be taken up by all manufacturers. So we can either be part of that now, or later.
Show threadEllipsis... 🇨🇦17h ago
@chris I tend to agree with this stance. But I think we need to look after displaced workers the best we can.
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸16h ago
@tobiaspatton absolutely. That's generally the missing link and it is why so much bad blood is generated by these transitions.
Show threadZenHeathen 🇨🇦16h ago
@tobiaspatton But aren't there displaced workers right now? This plant is sitting idle. If they spin it up again, there are jobs. @chris
Show threadAmgine16h ago

@chris @tobiaspatton

One of the key things about assembling in Canada is there are inevitably cost efficiencies which produce local economic activity.

But also - this is all about Stellantis getting out of their contract violation(s) with Ontario and Canada. And that requires a certain number of skilled Canadian employees. Or cash.

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@chris
Oops: 🙂
Show threadChris Alemany16h ago
@crispius @chris hahaha
Show threadKevin Russell16h ago

@chris

🇨🇦 Canadians want choice because monopoly control by 🇺🇸 American corporations and politicians have made cars too expensive.

Premier Ford is an 🇺🇸 American corporation and 🤡 politician.

#onpoli #cdnpoli #byd #evs #ev

Show threadAnnieBuddy16h ago

@kevinrns @chris

He's also giving Stellantis a good defence for claiming that he isn't working with them to mitigate the fallout from their jeep manufacturing going elsewhere. Hard for the government to sue them when they demonstrate they're trying to keep people working and Ford is just shutting down their options.

Show threadKevin Russell15h ago

@AnnieBuddy @chris

Bookmarked insight.