This is becoming all-too-common, and shows the downside of globalization and foreign-owned factories.
Why must we rely on imports and foreign branches to sustain our economy and fund our federal government through taxes and fees? Other countries across the globe have their own car manufacturer, and they consider other name brands outside their country to be imports. We, on the other hand, make imports. We drive American cars rather than Canadian ones. Just because there’s a plant somewhere in Ontario with Canadian workers, it doesn’t mean it’s Canadian. To assume that GM cars are Canadian is like assuming Burger King is Canadian. And for the record, just because a restaurant is owned by a Canadian in the United States, it doesn’t mean it’s Canadian.
Our nation is failing because we are too stubborn and unpatriotic to get our own car company, to establish our own. We are too cynical and nihilistic to fight for what should be ours. In recent events, 2000 autoworkers got laid off the job after a plastics plant that made plastic auto parts got shut down. Article found here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/03/plant-closure.html
Canadian autoworkers need to do the unthinkable and make it a reality: create our own national automotive brand with our own designs and standards. These workers could use their skills to roll off the assembly line Canadian cars that may have high tech environmentally friendly fuel like hydrogen rule the highways, sea and airspace of our country. On a side note, Bombardier has done nothing in regards to exploiting this technology. The Europeans are far advanced on this while we drag our feet worried about dying economies that aren’t worthy of a dollar anymore, like oil.
The workers should take control of the factory or build their own factory, and build Canadian cars. Canada needs to make its own cars because we should not be an industrial and economic doormat of foreigners and that the workers benefit fully from working in their own factory which they run. They could rent out their services as a factory to car manufacturers that can be local, become competition to Bombardier, which has never ever explored making cars.
2000 Autoworkers Lose Jobs
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/03/plant-closure.html
This is becoming all-too-common, and shows the downside of globalization and foreign-owned factories.
Why must we rely on imports and foreign branches to sustain our economy and fund our federal government through taxes and fees? Other countries across the globe have their own car manufacturer, and they consider other name brands outside their country to be imports. We, on the other hand, make imports. We drive American cars rather than Canadian ones. Just because there’s a plant somewhere in Ontario with Canadian workers, it doesn’t mean it’s Canadian. To assume that GM cars are Canadian is like assuming Burger King is Canadian. And for the record, just because a restaurant is owned by a Canadian in the United States, it doesn’t mean it’s Canadian.
Our nation is failing because we are too stubborn and unpatriotic to get our own car company, to establish our own. We are too cynical and nihilistic to fight for what should be ours. In recent events, 2000 autoworkers got laid off the job after a plastics plant that made plastic auto parts got shut down. Article found here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/03/plant-closure.html
Canadian autoworkers need to do the unthinkable and make it a reality: create our own national automotive brand with our own designs and standards. These workers could use their skills to roll off the assembly line Canadian cars that may have high tech environmentally friendly fuel like hydrogen rule the highways, sea and airspace of our country. On a side note, Bombardier has done nothing in regards to exploiting this technology. The Europeans are far advanced on this while we drag our feet worried about dying economies that aren’t worthy of a dollar anymore, like oil.
The workers should take control of the factory or build their own factory, and build Canadian cars. Canada needs to make its own cars because we should not be an industrial and economic doormat of foreigners and that the workers benefit fully from working in their own factory which they run. They could rent out their services as a factory to car manufacturers that can be local, become competition to Bombardier, which has never ever explored making cars.
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