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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was visiting Windsor Thursday, meeting with labour leaders and seniors on a return leg from a trip to the prairies.
Trudeau met with union workers at the Unifor Local 444/200 union hall on Turner Road shortly after 11 a.m., then was scheduled to speak briefly with members of the media.
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A handful of protesters stood across the street from the labour hall waving flags with expletives, sounding a noisemaker, and shouting anti-Trudeau sentiments, including calls for the prime minister’s removal from office.
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Trudeau’s Windsor visit continued past the Star’s mid-day print deadline.
The prime minister was expected to meet with local seniors later in the day.
Trudeau last visited Windsor in January, when he toured Stellantis’s Windsor Assembly Plant and re-affirmed the federal government’s commitment to position Canada at the centre of the electric vehicle revolution.
Ottawa has set a target of ensuring every new vehicle built in Canada will be zero-emission by 2035.
The prime minister’s time in Southwestern Ontario followed a meeting with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Wednesday.
Following that meeting, Smith told reporters she wants Ottawa to revise its national pharmacare proposal so it offsets the costs of thousands of drugs for Albertans without insurance.
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Smith said she also told the prime minister that Alberta would have a better relationship with the feds if he removed Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault from his post. Smith has been vocal with her criticism of a number of Guilbeault’s policies, including the federal carbon tax.
More to come.
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