Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, the leader of the NDP, for raising this issue as well.
I rise today to discuss the emergency in the lives of 3,000 Brampton area families who received the news, one day after the Prime Minister's meeting with the President of the United States, that their factory would be moving to the U.S. For these families, it is not just an emergency. It is a tragedy. They ask how they are going to pay their bills and feed their families or whether they might have to uproot their kids from their schools and hockey teams to move to a faraway place just to put food on the table.
This is part of a larger trend. There are 100,000 more people who are unemployed since the Prime Minister took office and promised to protect jobs. There is $54 billion of net investment that has fled since he was elected while promising to bring investment back to this country. Our economy is the fastest-shrinking in the G7. These statistics might seem like they are just interesting to the economists and accountants, but in fact, there are human lives that are at stake.
This is particularly important to Canadian taxpayers, but because the federal government has contributed 15 billion tax dollars to the company that is now moving these jobs, that works out to almost $1,000 for every single family in Canada. Families that cannot afford groceries or homes are paying to subsidize the export of our jobs to the United States of America.
In the past, a prior Speaker granted an emergency debate on the Oshawa GM plant back in 2018. There were 2,500 jobs that were at risk at that time. Now we have an even bigger number as part of a larger phenomenon. Therefore, I ask that the Speaker acknowledge the emergency in the lives of these 3,000 auto workers, and so many like them across the country, by granting an emergency debate.