The Leader of Canada\u2019s Conservatives, and the Leader of the Official Opposition, the Hon. Andrew Scheer, released the following statement today regarding General Motors\u2019 suspension of operations in Oshawa:<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s news is\u00a0a\u00a0devastating blow to thousands of southern Ontario families who have relied for decades on the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa to provide a living. This closure represents the end of a long and proud tradition in Oshawa, which has been a reliable home to GM for over 100 years. My thoughts are with all those who will be impacted by this closure.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust last week, Justin Trudeau presented a Fall Economic Update to Canadians which painted a rosy picture of Canada\u2019s economy. Despite mounting debt and deficits, rising inflation and interest rates, billions in lost investment, and a crisis in Canada\u2019s energy sector, Trudeau insisted all was well. Only days later, we learn of this closure.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, Conservatives in Ottawa will call for an emergency debate in the House of Commons to\u00a0press the Liberals\u00a0for a plan on how they will\u00a0respond to the thousands of people out of work\u00a0and how they\u00a0will protect remaining manufacturing jobs in Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Leader of Canada\u2019s Conservatives, and the Leader of the Official Opposition, the Hon. Andrew Scheer, released the following statement today regarding General Motors\u2019 suspension of operations in Oshawa: \u201cToday\u2019s news is\u00a0a\u00a0devastating blow to thousands of southern Ontario families who have relied for decades on the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa to provide a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1829],"class_list":["post-17049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-gm-oshawa"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 14:40:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17050,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions\/17050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}