Poilievre calls on Joly to be fired over Stellantis Brampton plant closure

The Prime Minister is taking aim at Stellantis. After news, the automaker is selling one of its Ontario assembly plants to Canadian defence manufacturer Roshell. The situation in Stellantis, the Brampton plant, is unacceptable. The company laid off more than 2,000 workers three years ago to retool the plant for production of the Jeep Compass, before moving that to the U.S. last year, citing the impact of auto tariffs. It's a betrayal of the workers, as it is a betrayal of the obligations to Canada. We will, as the Prime Minister has mentioned, use the full force of the law to make sure that we protect jobs. Stellantis received $222 million from Ottawa under a deal brokered four years ago for its plants in both Brampton and Windsor, the company now saying in a statement it knows Canadians expect accountability for public funding and it has offered to voluntarily return the government support received for Brampton Assembly's original retooling plan, but also citing confidentiality provisions in declining to provide further details. Another blow for workers who've been in limbo for years. Any hope that we had of potentially coming back when we heard the news kind of just got shattered. The opposition Conservatives are meanwhile calling on Ottawa to sue Stellantis and fire Industry Minister Mélanie Joly. She wrote yesterday that workers deserve answers. Minister, they deserve their damn jobs and Canadians deserve their damn tax dollars. Carney is standing by his minister through all of this. Joly's office did not divulge how much money the federal government is expecting to recoup from the company. She is expected to meet with the union, Stellantis and Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Thursday to discuss next steps. Raffi Buchikyan on CBC News, Ottawa.