The Ontario and Canadian governments are putting the squeeze on retired autoworkers. Call it General Motors decides on our behalf.

Sadly, both Ontario Liberals, and federal Conservatives are prepared to back Detroit-based management of American companies, and push around the Canadian workers who have been making cars. Surely, it should be the other way around: governments should be backing Canadian workers through an industrial strategy, not being pushed into doing whatever is decided in the U.S.

Sending subsidies South is not going to bring back jobs eliminated by GM, Ford, Chrysler and US Steel; or support Southern Ontario, and its hard hit communities: Oshawa, Oakville, Windsor and Hamilton.