General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC are seeking additional financial aid from the Canadian and Ontario governments, and GM Canada wants to create a union-run fund to reduce its health care costs in the country.
The automakers’ needs were outlined in restructuring plans they submitted late Friday in the latest example of Detroit’s hardest-hit automakers taking their pleas for help abroad as the global industry downturn ravages their foreign operations.
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