Government hands over unredacted controversial Stellantis deal to MPs

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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The company furloughed thousands of employees in the process as it announced an “operational pause” of the Ontario assembly plant in October.

Sending a notice of default suggests the federal government is preparing to file a lawsuit against Stellantis, which it accuses of breaching the contract signed in