The PC leader is asking a wage subsidy be put in place to help plant workers through the transition as they struggle to find new jobs on short notice and worry about employment insurance running short.
The Newfoundland-based Ocean Choice invested millions in the plant over the years, but it hasn’t been enough to prevent the closure, which comes just weeks before the May lobster season. “Ideally we would have made this announcement earlier, but we have been exploring every avenue and option we could find in an effort to keep production in the plant,” Blaine Sullivan, the seafood company’s chief operating officer said in a statement.
Earlier this year, 120 processors were put out of work when the company plant in North Lake, P.E.I., closed.
