Trudeau Pushing Ontario to Pay More at ’11th Hour’ for Stalled Stellantis Plant, Ontario Premier says

The province has committed its “fair share,” but the federal government is responsible for competing with the U.S. on subsidies, Ford said.<

“The continued delay in executing this agreement is bringing significant risk to the project,” Carlos Tavares and Kwon Young-soo wrote, adding they may be soon be forced to make “difficult decisions.”

The letter doesn’t contain details of the deal except that it was “mutually satisfactory,” and it adds that Canada has provided five written documents confirming its commitment to match incentives under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

“This uncertainty is unfair to our Canadian employees, as well as towards Stellantis and LGES investments,” the companies said.

Federal Trade Minister Mary Ng told reporters the negotiations are continuing and that “this government has kept its word.”

The 45 gigawatt-hour factory would create 2,500 jobs and supply Stellantis’s assembly plant in Windsor and others across North America. Stellantis has also warned of possible factory closures in the U.K. if the country doesn’t renegotiate its post-Brexit trade agreement with the European Union.