Ontario Premier Apprehensive Over Plans To Save Canadian Car Industry

December 3, 2008 6:20 p.m. EST

Toronto, Ontario (AHN) - While the Conservative Party is battling it out with the Liberal-NDP coalition, Canada's auto industry continues to sink. Car sales registered a 10.3 percent decline in October, while a planned rescue package is in danger of being sidelined as Canadian parliamentarians will likely attend first to their political survival.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, in a press conference Tuesday, said democratic processes like the ongoing political intramurals, could be slow, cumbersome and messy.

Should the planned ouster of the Tory government succeed, McGuinty has a plan B on hand, by contacting the staff of Liberal Leader Stephane Dion this early to indicate he is prepared to sit down with him to tackle how the ailing Canadian vehicle manufacturing sector could survive the global economic turmoil.

McGuinty said, quoted by Globe and Mail, "Whatever the net result is, I'm eager for us to get to that sooner rather than later. We have an economic crisis. That calls upon us to be at our very best. In Ottawa today, we are at less than our very best."

Up to 400,000 Ontario residents who are employed in the vehicle production sector located in the province stand to lose their jobs if the federal government will fail to help the country's car industry.