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The federal and Ontario governments on July 6 committed to incentives for two automobile battery plants, $28 billion and counting. The deal with Volkswagen was far too costly. The Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation called the deal with Stellantis “massively expensive for taxpayers”. Industry Minister Champagne said he could add “one or two” more deals, at a smaller scale. Soon PM Trudeau announced $1.5
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