Stellantis will face MP study over contracts after Jeep production move
Global News
The Conservatives pushed for the study after Stellantis announced it would be moving planned production of its Jeep Compass from its plant in Brampton, Ont., to Illinois.
A House of Commons committee approved a study of the contracts Stellantis has signed with the federal government for billions of dollars of subsidies to see if they included provisions to protect Canadian auto jobs.
The Conservatives pushed for the study after Stellantis last week said it would be moving planned production of its Jeep Compass from its plant in Brampton, Ont., to Illinois, threatening 3,000 workers at the Canadian facility.
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis said Stellantis has received over $10 billion in federal subsidies from the Liberal government over the past several years to boost the automaker’s Canadian footprint.
His motion calls for the production of copies of any contract, memorandum of understanding or other agreement signed between the government and Stellantis since November 2015, when former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his first cabinet were sworn in.
Liberal members of the government operations and estimates committee raised concerns about releasing unredacted contracts containing commercially sensitive information.
They argued that could threaten future foreign investment in Canada at a time when the country is seeking to bolster its economy in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, including on the auto sector, which have been directly blamed for Stellantis’s decision.
A Liberal amendment that would have redacted sensitive information was defeated, before the study was ultimately approved with conditions that the government will be allowed to suggest redactions before public release.
However, the committee will still get to review the full, unredacted versions of the documents before any redactions are made.
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