GM Bailout

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Posted June 1, 2009 1:47 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

It’s costing you $9.5 billion. But according to both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Dalton McGuinty, it’s a necessary step to save the economy and Canadian jobs.

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