General Motors is abandoning Oshawa, the mid-sized Ontario city of 160,000 that’s been building cars and trucks for the automotive giant for 100 years. Does a federal and provincial government failure to intervene in the crisis, a crisis affecting the lives of as many as 60,000 Canadian citizens, mean that it’s time to nationalize GM?

Unifor Local 222 Political Action Committee chairman Tony Leah joins the show to explain how transforming the Oshawa plant into a crown corporation under public ownership and democratic control as part of a Canadian Green New Deal is the best way forward towards resolving the crisis.

Join the public meeting this Thursday, April 25th at 7pm at the IBEW Hall in Oshawa with CUPW National President Mike Palacek, Oshawa NDP MPP Jennifer French, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris and Russ Christianson of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation for a conversation facilitated by Durham Region Labour Council President Tiffany Balducci (or find the stream on Facebook under the Durham Region Labour Council).

This conversation was recorded on April 22nd, 2019.