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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GM-and-Canadas-transition-to-a-zero-emissions-fleet.jpg2000700The recent closure of the GM Oshawa plant has both nothing and everything to do with climate change. Nothing, in the sense that any claim that GM was motivated by altruistic desires to curtail emissions by focusing on electric vehicles is largely hogwash: The plant closure was fundamentally a financial decision made by a mega-corporation […]