Ottawa is serving Stellantis with a notice of default on its federal contracts as the automaker proceeds with plans to relocate a portion of its production to the United States, despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian funding.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told a parliamentary committee on Dec. 4 that the automaker’s production shift breaches government contracts tied to manufacturing both in Windsor and Brampton, Ont.
Joly’s announcement while addressing the House of Commons’ international trade committee comes nearly two months after Stellantis said it will shift production of the Jeep Compass from the Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario to Belvidere, Illinois. The move is part of a US$13 billion investment in the company’s manufacturing operations in the United States and affects some 3,000 jobs at the Brampton facility….