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Nearly five months after promising a $2-billion fund to bolster the Canadian auto sector amid a trade war that threatens to permanently shrink it, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is starting to come under pressure to deliver.

Unifor president Lana Payne, whose union represents tens of thousands of auto workers, told The Globe and Mail that she recently raised the commitment in a meeting with Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and asked for details to be included in the federal budget expected this fall.

Ms. Payne acknowledged, as did other sectoral representatives in recent interviews, that it’s reasonable to have held off introducing the fund, given the volatility of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But she contended that Ottawa can’t afford to

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