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Canada's Growing Trade Imbalance View Larger Version: 4-Page PDF

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Business Investment and Foreign Takeovers View Larger Version: 2-Page PDF

"Buy Canadian" Legislation View Larger Version: 1-Page PDF

Federal Taskforce on Manufacturing View Larger Version: 1-Page PDF

A Look Back at Phase 1 View Larger Version: 9-Page PDF

Manufacturing Matters Campaign School - May 10, 2008

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The CAW today (April 16, 2008) is releasing a series of economic analyses on the importance of the auto industry to various regions across Ontario. Below please find press releases detailing the findings for the six communities studied.

What the auto industry means to Windsor.

What the auto industry means to Greater Toronto.

What the auto industry means to Kitchener-Waterloo.

What the auto industry means to London.

What the auto industry means to Oshawa.

What the auto industry means to St. Catharines-Niagara.

View the CAW's Fighting for Canadian Jobs: Manufacturing Matters Campaign Video 56-MB WMV (Runtime = 25 minutes)

Where Is The Government?!?

Canada's manufacturing sector is in dire straits, and it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out! Day after day, another Canadian plant shuts its doors, files for bankruptcy or announces its intention to move its operations out of the country.

Good manufacturing jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate across Canada and the Harper government has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to stop this. The clear message to Canadian workers from coast to coast is that the federal government simply does not care about you, your family, your community or the future of one of Canada's most valued industrial sectors.

We have tried in so many ways to get help from this federal government, but our pleas seem to have fallen on deaf ears. Quite frankly, Mr. Harper and his government have their own agenda, and want no part of dealing with the reality that manufacturing is in desperate need of massive legislative and financial support to get things back on track before the sector is gone and gutted to the core.

This video intends to show the truths of what is happening across this great nation of ours. Then you can draw your own conclusions on the need for our governments to take decisive action.

Please contact your MP and let them know how you feel about this issue.

Federal MPs Who Endorse the CAW Manufacturing Matters Campaign

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Procurement Resolution Draft 3 View Larger Version: 2-Page PDF