Creating “good” jobs in Canada, improving its competitiveness, and now fostering the green transition and making the country’s supply chain more resilient are typical excuses that roll off the tongues of politicians when defending subsidies to hand-picked industries.
In the 2023 budget, the federal government provided $20-billion to preferred sectors and technologies and $14-billion (and counting) afterward to Volkswagen. The government later did a similar deal with Stellantis.
Everything Trudeau touches turns to shit.
