Ingersoll

But I also think, too, like you have to be flexible as well.

And, you know, like we started off this season with me in Ingersoll, Ontario, and driving seven hours before doing the first preseason game, which is not usually part of my game day routine.

And then JP and I doing a little bit of a road trip to Trois-Rivières was outside the normal scope of how we usually handle a game day.

But those...

It's not the same situation, for example, of what we just bargained with General Motors, which we just completed that bargaining before we went to the table with Stellantis.

And we also had an idle plant there, the Cami plant in Ingersoll.

And what we did is we bargained a no closure, no sale agreement for that plant.

We worked with the company to make sure that we are exploring all opportunities for that plant into the future.

So that is the concern.

So Unifor has made it very clear to their members, both in Brampton and in Windsor and at the castings plant in Etobicoke, They're fighting to keep Brampton at least unsold because they have a deal with GM about its Cami plant in Ingersoll in the latest contract, three-year deal.

We will not sell that plant.

We will not close that plant within the three-year contract.

They just want time.

And so with GM, they negotiated to keep Cami, an assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, open.

They're not going to sell it.

They're not going to close it.

So that is the concern.

So Unifor has made it very clear to their members, both in Brampton and in Windsor and at the castings plant in Etobicoke, They're fighting to keep Brampton at least unsold because they have a deal with GM about its cami plant in Ingersoll in the latest contract, three-year deal.

We will not sell that plant.

We will not close that plant within the three-year contract.

hold on here let's So here's another Ontario here.

Zach McMaster is from Ingersoll, Ontario.

That's awesome.

Canada represent.

But obviously we are there, and that leaves it a lot more open-ended than anybody on this side of the border wants.

GM was in a similar situation in that Ingersoll, Cammy plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, is idle as well.

It's been vacant not as long as the Brampton plant that is owned by Stellantis.

Are there similarities there or are they completely different in terms of GM wanting to sell it, GM's plans for that empty plant? Can you draw comparisons here and parallels here between these two or are they much different?

Um, but at least, uh, you know, the They're going to want to see some positive signal for Brampton before coming up on this talk.

And I wanted to ask you about that.

Do you get a sense that Unifor considers the GM agreement to not close or sell Kami in Ingersoll part of the, quote, pattern? Therefore meaning Unifor would expect that same promise from Stellantis about its Brampton plant.

So that now this promise to not close or sell Ingersoll, a vacant plant, is now part of the pattern moving forward and they expect Stellantis to not sell or close Brampton.

On March 18th, 2026, Defence Minister David McGinty announced a $1.4 billion investment through the Canadian Defence Industry Resilience Program, CDIR, to establish a domestic end-to-end ammunition manufacturing supply chain.

The initiative will allocate $305.4 million for IMT Precision in Ingersoll, Ontario, to forge metal casings for 155mm artillery projectiles, alongside three contribution agreements with General Dynamics in Quebec.

$355.7 million for a nitrocellulose production facility, $57.9 million for M231-M232 modular artillery charge assembly, and $642 million for full 155mm high-explosive shell loading and integration.

Together, these interconnected facilities are designed to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers for both finished artillery rounds and chemical inputs like nitrocellulose, while supporting Canadian Armed Forces operations and NATO commitments in Latvia.