The Canadian National Newspaper: Government in Canada should buy out and not bail out branch plants of U.S. automakers

Government in Canada should buy out and not bail out branch plants of U.S. automakers

Branch plants of U.S. automakers are seeking Canadian taxpayers to bail them out. However, why should Canadians prop up U.S. automobile companies like GM, that destroyed their own zero-emission EV1 Electric Car, in order to appease Oil Industry interests? But, the Canadians who work for these irresponsible U.S. branch plants should also not be abandoned, in our socially responsible inspired society.

This begs a critical question. Why not government in Canada, acting in behalf of Canadians, simply use any prospective billions of dollars in bail out money for these companies, to acquire shares in them. Canadians, like other countries of similar populations to Canada, can develop and operate its own made-in-Canada auto industry, that protects Canadians from irresponsible decision-making by American companies like GM.

Why should Companies that get into difficulty as a result of their own reckless negligence and callous disregard to Canadians, rely on a Canadians to bail them out? Should we as Canadians bail out companies that seek to move out jobs into places like China and Mexico, in order to exploit workers of those countries?

Canadians developed the Avro Arrow that was decades ahead of fighter jets that had been developed by the U.S. military. Canadians could similarly develop a car, free of the kind of cynical politics which now threatens the jobs of Canadian workers, and that also is destroying environment.

The mantra of "Economic Globalization" is an ideology to encourage Canadians to forgo their own national self-determination, and to in the process, sacrifice their quality-of-living to predatory capitalists who seek to control and run the planet.

Canada's national interests in the automobile industry can be arguably better protected by the coming together of levels of government in Canada. Surely, the Canadian Automobile Workers, and other Canadians, may acquire shares in Canadian car manufacturing plants, toward their eventual public takeover.

This eventual new entity could be run like Canada's West Jet, and other companies that encourage skateholding by employees. Perhaps this new entity could also be named after the Avro Arrow?

With the destruction of the Auto Pact by the crypto-fascistic World Trade Organization (WTO) the only way to ensure the continued emigration of vital manufacturing jobs in Canada, is through a take over of such branch plants, with head offices that make decisions insensitive to our vital national interests.

Recommended readings: The Proposed Canadian Automobile Transport and Arctic Climatic Protection Act: Toward an environmentally-sensitized and truly made-in-Canada car inspired by the Avro Arrow, by H. Raymond Samuels II ISBN: 189703623X.

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