[karmatourer]

Originally Posted by IMadeYouReadThis

It's all about choices the only way to show these companies that they need to stay in Canada and the u.s. is telling them with your wallet.

I mean hell you have choices they made your Camaro in the states. Dodge produces the Challenger just down the street from you right here in Canada.

I don't see any need for you to justify job loss in Canada or the states

So you still DON'T understand they are in business to make money and be viable going forward. So I'll ask,if you were a business owner and could reap much larger profits OR simply stay in business,would you move production abroad?

[Ryephile]

Originally Posted by IMadeYouReadThis

it would be fully utilized except they keep on taking its products away and giving them to Mexico.

This is a carefully planned closure to take advantage of $2 an hour labor.

This is a slap in the face to Canadian workers and Canadian taxpayers.

For over a hundred years general motors has been doing business in Oshawa they chose to kill it

The slap in the face is Canada choosing to be uncompetitive on the world labor stage. [insert business here] is a business, not a socialism or a charity. You want a pity party? Go to Flint, Michigan and see what happens when GM abandons a city because it's no longer profitable. You're not special and this isn't GM's first time.

Canada is not entitled to a foreign company doing business there. Your countrymen are not entitled to working for them.

Of course its carefully planned. You think the executives are risking their bonuses on haphazard and frivolous financial decisions? Don't be naive.

[karmatourer]

Originally Posted by Ryephile

The slap in the face is Canada choosing to be uncompetitive on the world labor stage. [insert business here] is a business, not a socialism or a charity. You want a pity party? Go to Flint, Michigan and see what happens when GM abandons a city because it's no longer profitable. You're not special and this isn't GM's first time.

Canada is not entitled to a foreign company doing business there. Your countrymen are not entitled to working for them.

Of course its carefully planned. You think the executives are risking their bonuses on haphazard and frivolous financial decisions? Don't be naive.

Well stated.
Plans to close won't change no matter what. Time to move on,like Saints fans have(n't).

[IMadeYouReadThis]

Originally Posted by Ryephile

The slap in the face is Canada choosing to be uncompetitive on the world labor stage. [insert business here] is a business, not a socialism or a charity. You want a pity party? Go to Flint, Michigan and see what happens when GM abandons a city because it's no longer profitable. You're not special and this isn't GM's first time.

Canada is not entitled to a foreign company doing business there. Your countrymen are not entitled to working for them.

Of course its carefully planned. You think the executives are risking their bonuses on haphazard and frivolous financial decisions? Don't be naive.

How was Canada uncompetitive because we won't work for $2 an hour get over yourself.

You can talk about General Motors being a foreign company but Oshawa is where the carriage company started for McLaughlin.

Canada was there since day one

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Canada

[IMadeYouReadThis]

Originally Posted by karmatourer

Well stated.
Plans to close won't change no matter what. Time to move on,like Saints fans have(n't).

Time to fight corporate greed with our wallets is what it is

[IMadeYouReadThis]

History Edit
McLaughlin and Buick Edit
McLaughlin Motor Car Company was founded in 1907. Samuel McLaughlin and William C. Durant, respectively the biggest carriage builders in Canada and the United States, contracted for Durant's Buick to supply McLaughlin with power trains for 15 years. McLaughlin fitted the power trains to running gear, bodies and chassis built by McLaughlin in Canada. The cars were branded McLaughlin until the end of the contract. McLaughlin-Buick was the brand between 1923 and 1942.

In 1908 Durant and McLaughlin started General Motors Holding Company after Durant exchanged $500,000 of Buick stock for $500,000 of McLaughlin Motor Co. stock. McLaughlin also exchanged his Buick stock for General Motors stock, and in 1910 was invited to be on the board of General Motors in Detroit.

[IMadeYouReadThis]

Chevrolet Edit
In 1915 McLaughlin acquired the Chevrolet Car Company of Canada, which built Chevrolets in Oshawa with Chevrolet motors and McLaughlin bodies. In 1918 he merged his company with it under the name General Motors of Canada Limited prior to his becoming director and vice president of General Motors on the approval of Durant, who was then president of General Motors and owner of the Chevrolet Motor Co. The Corporation moved people in 1918 after McLaughlin allied his Company with the Corporation unknown to Robert McLaughlin. The McLaughlins were given GM stocks for the propriortorship of the Canadian Company and $10,000,000 to build Walkerville and Canadian Products,[4] but not ownership