The House of Commons industry and technology committee is holding a special meeting Tuesday to discuss “employment concerns” surrounding the new Stellantis-LG gigafactory in Windsor, Ont., after NDP and Conservative MPs contacted Liberal leaders raising concerns about staffing the heavily subsidized plant with temporary foreign workers. (The Globe and Mail)

Talking point: Danies Lee, CEO of NextStar Energy, a Stellantis-LG Energy Solution joint venture that’s building the plant, said that while installing the equipment requires specialized global staff from suppliers, it’s “fully committed to hiring Canadians to fill more than 2,500 full-time positions at the Windsor battery facility” and is “engaging up to an additional 2,300 tradespeople locally and throughout the province.” But Canada’s Building Trades Unions’ executive director Sean Strickland told The Globe and Mail they still have “grave concerns” about temporary foreign workers being used in place of local workers.