Canadian leaders said Wednesday that Jeep-maker Stellantis’s decision to invest $13 billion in the United States threatens Canadian jobs, urging action to counter what they called another casualty of President Donald Trump’s trade war.

The automaker on Tuesday announced what it described as its largest US investment push in its 100-year history, aiming to create 5,000 jobs across the midwestern United States.

Stellantis told AFP on Wednesday that “as part of this announcement, we will move one model from Canada to the US.”

UNIFOR, Canada’s largest private-sector union representing thousands of autoworkers, said the model in question is the Jeep Compass, which will shift from a plant in Brampton, Ontario, to Illinois.

“Canadian auto jobs are being sacrificed on the Trump altar,” Unifor

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