Hey everyone,

For my english class we had to write an editorial for one of our projects, so I decided to post it on my blog, so here it is :) enjoy

To the editor,
The other day I read in the paper that General Motors has recently announced that they have planned to build two new cars in Oshawa within the next three years. Now that arose a huge topic in my eyes that really affects us as Canadians. If GM is doing what they can to keep jobs in our country, and to be more specific, in Oshawa, why are there still so many people going out and buying foreign vehicles?
General Motors has done so much to try and attract domestic buyers and have done so much to try to help our economy, i.e. the North American built vehicles can contend or pass the foreign vehicles in gas mileage and dependability, but still there are people, even people that work for GM them selves, are going to companies like Honda, Kia, Lexus, Toyota, BMW etc. to buy their new vehicles.

General Motors was always a huge part of Oshawa. Looking back through my family, most of them have worked for GM, for someone that supplied them or had something to do with them. It goes to show how much GM really affects Oshawa families. Everyone in my family owns at least 1 GM vehicle. The reason we all do this is because we believe that we should support our local manufacturers, to promote the buying of locally made vehicles. We also believe that the more GM notices that we( by we I mean the whole community) are trying to support them, they may in turn try to help our community even more by bringing in more work which in turn makes more jobs and the cycle just keeps going.

All I am trying too say is that we aren’t helping anyone by going out and purchasing foreign vehicles, we are doing nothing to help ourselves through theses hard economic times. If we just open our eyes, make suggestions and trust in our local manufacturers, we can make this a winning cause. And so I end my letter on this note; when you go out and buy an import, your neighbour who works for GM gets laid off because they aren’t selling cars so he has no work. Are you going to going to be able to watch him struggle to put food on the table for his family and pay off his bills because you chose to buy imported?

The choice is no ones but yours!

Thank you