Government hands over unredacted controversial Stellantis deal to committee after weeks

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told another committee that the government is serving Stellantis with a notice of default due to its announced shift in production to the U.S.

OTTAWA — After more than a month and a half of fighting, a Commons committee finally received an unredacted copy of a controversial funding agreement worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Ottawa to auto giant Stellantis Thursday.

On the same day, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told another Commons committee that the government is serving Stellantis with a notice of default due to its announced shift in production of a Jeep model from Brampton, Ont., to the U.S.

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