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The federal government paid Stellantis more than $220 million to help upgrade its Ontario plants before the automaker revealed plans to move some of its production to the United States, recent records show.
It’s more than double the amount the federal government revealed when asked in October about its spending on Stellantis, after the multinational announced it would scrap plans to build the Jeep Compass at its Brampton plant and instead assemble it in Belvidere, Illinois.
“Stellantis has received $18,629,124 under the agreement for fiscal year 2023 and $85,936,055 for fiscal year 2024, for a total support of $104,565,179,” a spokesperson for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) told CBC News at the time.
But the figures do not include the most recent fiscal year, which ended at the end of March. Last month, the federal government released its annual public accounting documents, showing it paid FCA Canada, the Canadian arm of Stellantis, nearly $118 million during fiscal 2025, bringing the total to about $222 million.
ISED did not respond to questions by deadline.
The money comes from a deal signed in 2022 that provides Stellantis with up to $529 million to help upgrade the company’s assembly plants in Brampton and Windsor, Ont., to support production of electric and gasoline-powered vehicles.
The province also pledged to provide up to $513 million, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his government has not provided Stellantis with any funding for the Brampton plant because it did not meet conditions related to job creation and project milestones.
However, according to Ford, the company got $55 million for the Windsor plant.
The global automaker’s decision in Brampton has sparked new job fears among the roughly 3,000 employees there, most of whom have already been laid off as crews modernize the plant. That work was halted in February amid U.S. tariff chaos and uncertainty in the electric vehicle market.
Public officials responded to the move with outrage in light of financing agreements with Stellantis, as well as NextStar Energy, its electric vehicle battery company in Windsor. Minister of Industry M.myLanie Joly has said the contracts, one of which is worth up to $15 billion, contained labor guarantees, prompting her to begin a dispute resolution process with Stellantis to try to recover some of the money.
A Stellantis spokesperson said they could not comment on this story, but shared an earlier statement saying the company continues to “work constructively with government partners and other stakeholders on a plan for Brampton to find viable solutions that build a long-term sustainable future for automotive manufacturing in Canada.”
Federal government accounting records, formally known as the Public Accounts of Canada, show $306 million of the $529 million remaining under the restructuring deal, with $94 million to be disbursed this fiscal year, $95 million in 2027, $79 million next year and smaller amounts beyond that.
It’s unclear whether those estimates remain accurate.
