QUEEN’S PARK – Tim Hudak, MPP for Niagara West-Glanbrook, questioned the Premier in the Legislature yesterday as to why his government walked away from the negotiating table, effectively giving up on trying to save the jobs of CanGro Foods employees and the livelihoods of Niagara tender fruit growers.

“On Friday (April 18) the remaining 120 workers at CanGro in Niagara were summoned to hear the very unfortunate news that the deal to purchase and invest in their facility fell through, and they would be out of work,” Hudak said.

Aside from negotiations, Hudak added the McGuinty government has not come forward with funding for the plant workers and tender fruit growers affected by the CanGro closure, yet he has gladly forked over millions of dollars to multi-million-dollar corporations, including:

• $50 million to Magna International a year ago when its CEO, who earns an annual salary in excess of $40 million, was contemplating a $3.2 billion takeover of Chrysler;
• $14 million to Sanofi Pasteur, an international pharmaceutical company that enjoys annual sales of more than $4 billion;
• $9.7 million to Kelloggs towards its $97 million plant in Belleville;
• $5.5 million to expand a plant in Brantford that makes Tic Tacs.

“Premier, when it comes to the greenbelt, you have become an absentee landlord,” Hudak said. “I ask you: Why do you give big grants to foreign-owned multi-nationals, but walk away from tender fruit growers and workers in Niagara?”

Watch video of MPP Tim Hudak’s question to Premier Dalton McGuinty by clicking here:
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