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Originally Posted by Eisenhower

Car plant 1 is where they're supposed to build the new Camaro

GM Canada closed its Car Plant 1 in Oshawa, Ontario, at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, the second day of the U.S. strike, said Stew Low, public relations director at GM Canada.

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Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, said on Monday that up to 100,000 Canadian workers could be laid off if the U.S. strike drags on.

General Motors itself employs 17,000 workers in Canada who could face layoffs if the strike is prolonged.

In addition, the Canadian autoparts industry employs about 80,000 people and GM buys about half of all the automotive parts manufactured in Canada, Hargrove said.

As many as 40,000 of those autoparts workers could be laid off by Wednesday, he said.

Does Canada have a different meaning for the phrase "lay off", or are they really firing all of the workers?

At first read, it seems that they're just temporarily closing the plants until the strike is settled, but the way this article was written, it almost sounds permanent.