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Workers take part in a grand-opening event at General Motors’s CAMI EV plant, in Ingersoll, Ont., on Dec. 5, 2022. (Evan Mitsui/CBC) -
Singh calls plant shutdown ‘devastating’
Singh takes part in a press conference at the Broadbent Institute’s 2025 Progress Summit during a campaign stop in Ottawa on Friday. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press) NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh also commented on the plant shutdown, calling it “devastating.”
“Hundreds of working people are worried about how they’ll keep food on the table,” Singh wrote on X.
He said Canada needs to raise employment insurance compensation “so it actually covers the bills.” He also repeated his call for an NDP action plan to use Canadian steel in federal projects and ban American companies from federal procurement contracts.
“It’s time to put workers and jobs at the heart of Canada’s tariff fightback plan,” he wrote.
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