Plans have been announced to close and relocate a Fraser Valley industrial plant that was purchased by an American company two years ago.
Cam Tran manufactures and repairs transformers, with BC Hydro being one of its biggest customers.
The Arkansas firm Central Moloney Inc. says it is consolidating its Canadian operations, meaning the loss of 43 B.C. jobs by the end of August.
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The B.C. government now says it’s considering its options ahead of a meeting next week between Central Moloney Inc. and BC Hydro’s CEO.
“We have to make sure we have secure access to the transformers, which are a critical part of our system, but they are also creating jobs in B.C. and so I am concerned for the workers and concerned about how they are being treated,” B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix said.
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Although it is closing its Chilliwack plant, Cam Tran says it will continue to operate five other facilities across Canada.
To be expected when you create economic uncertainty through DRIPA, you institute tanker bans and stifle resource production and transport, yet there are multiple tankers per month transiting just off the cost in intl waters. Insanity defined is Eby and Carney
how about the novel thought of BC hydro doing it in house???
Anonymous
July 12, 2026 at 3:28 pm
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Thank you for making Canada pay for being a klepto-socialist fascist country, President Trump.
You copuld always opt to add to the BC debt by offering 20 billion for the plant
Oh come on! NDP has been so good for BC. We are broke ass broke but we are PRISTINE! Except those areas razed by developers and city councils who rape riparian areas.
Not only is BC business unfriendly, its is going sterile. Cutting trees in all suburban areas to make way for more density. ‘Naturalization’ of riparian areas. (I didn’t know concrete and steam mats with lights existed around these streams 200 plus years ago when just the indians were here!? Go figure..)
Gotta love the NDP!!
Meanwhile, jobs are walking away because of these id*ots.
BC is the bad economic climate here caused by the Eby gov’t, has been for five decades morons!
Seize the company, national security. If trump can do it with tick tock surely we can do it with critical power grid component manufacturer.
Yep, our commie overlords will pay them to close up shop, then pivot and they’ll pay china to provide the service or product at a premium.
Seems like a job that any trades oriented Canadian could be capable of performing?
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Business is business and… well BC is BC. Not very business friendly. Harsh reality. Not much of Canada is very business friendly. And of course, Dicks is an idiot at the best of times.
Eby the moron!!!
just looked at the prior comments. they’re all very simplistic in their approach. it’s not an individual problem. it’s a people problem. way to few with wayyyyy to much. which through history comes back on its self implodes then happens again ☯️. Dough!!
well, in situations like this, the Canadian government should be making sure these kind of assets are being sold to, which is now potentially a foreign adversary duh!!!
the real reason for the company leaving BC is the bad economic climate here caused by the Eby gov’t?
Eby will get it done!
Eby wil get it done!
Just buy the plant, Dix, & re-open it as a subsidiary of BC hydro, with all of the present employees. It’s not as if standard electrical transformer design involves any proprietary information.
canada is a toilet bowl of turd, don’t blame them
Not surprising for the failed NDP government. They should have been balloned last election but tje baffoons voted, now we are getting what they voted for. My god, whatever happened to this once prosperous province, it resembles the movie One flew over the cukoos nest.
Sounds like people are really gettong fed up with Eby.
Hmm, the company is leaving BC but will move elsewhere in Canada, citing tariffs as one of the reasons. Yet, it will still operate 5 facilities across Canada. I guess they’re exempt from tariffs. And Adrian Dix trying to gaslight us into believing that tariffs is the main reason. Could the real reason for the company leaving BC is the bad economic climate here caused by the Eby gov’t?
haahaa, Dix the mindless thinking the government can intervene being concerned about 40 government union jobs, meanwhile they have been incapable of running a province
MAGANUK: cheers on anything that hurts Canada.
Get out traitors!
How will these jobs losses be spun by chairman Mark Mao? Trump trump trump!
Where’s that plate of caviar dear? When are we leaving on our next vacation?