Trudeau, Ford to blame for Stellantis shakedown: Aaron Wudrick in the National Post

By Aaron Wudrick, June 2, 2023Canada’s long, sordid history of corporate welfare debacles should have been warning enough. electric vehicle battery factory, after already getting about $1 billion from the Ontario and federal governments, the hostage negotiations are now starting before the jobs even materialize. You have to wonder whether it even occurred to anyone in the Trudeau or Ford government that the lucrative Volkswagen package might come back to undermine the Stellantis deal struck a year earlier. That said, it’s hard to blame Stellantis for insisting on a level playing field, yet another reason why it was a colossal mistake for Trudeau and Ford to set off a subsidy bidding war. Rather than repudiate these destructive policies, Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford are doubling down on their colossal mistake.