Lori Paris' Report on the GM Plant Closure

There's been yet another setback to Canada's auto manufacturing industry.

General Motors has announced that it will close their Windsor transmission plant, putting close 1400 people out of work in Windsor, and possible another few hundred in St Catherines.

Listen to Lori Paris' report

GM first told the Canadian Auto Workers Union about problems for the Windsor plant in 2005, and since then, despite efforts by the CAW to find new products for the plant to manufacture, GM will be closing the plant.

CAW president Buzz Hargrove says he's understandably upset at the news.

"I'm frustrated and angry.  I can't believe that we've allowed ourselves to get in this position, where our most successful industry... Canada was the number one assembler of vehicles and parts in the world. And we've now dropped, and we continue to drop and we continue to drop."