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MetroMPG · 06-04-2008, 11:20 PM

This is making a bit of a political mess in Ontario as well, since the provincial gov't recently forked over a bunch of taxpayer money in the form of interest-free loans to GM which were intended to guarantee a certain level of manufacturing employment here. Now that's all up in the air.

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