Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's carbon tax is the "single biggest issue killing jobs," Ontario Premier Doug Ford claimed Wednesday, blaming it for the looming closure of the General Motors plant in Oshawa. GM workers picket at an entrance to the assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)Unifor, the country's largest private sector union, which represents the plant workers, also said it will "fight like hell" to keep the plant open beyond 2019. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)He also took issue with the premier's claim that the union's focus should be on securing other employment for the impacted GM workers. (CBC)In that time, approximately 300,000 manufacturing jobs were lost and numerous companies moved their operations out of Ontario, Ford said.

Source: CBC News November 28, 2018 20:12 UTC