Union head calls on governments to fund Toronto subway cars

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THUNDER BAY — The recently elected union president for workers at the city's Alstom plant is calling out the Ontario and federal governments after news broke this week that a request for proposals to manufacture subway cars for the Toronto Transit Commission has been withdrawn.

But in June it quietly notified the four companies that it was cancelling the request because government funding for the $2.3 billion project has not been secured.Roberts said it's disappointing that the three levels of government "can't seem to work together efficiently" in this situation. He believes it's unhelpful that the Conservative party is in power in Ontario while the Liberals are the governing party in Ottawa.

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