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SASKATOON — It’s a gathering of premiers without Prime Minister Justin Trudeau present, but the PM was front and centre in discussions over who was to blame over hundreds of jobs lost in two provinces.

An announcement said 550 jobs were to be lost at a Bombardier rail car plant in Thunder Bay and another 87 gone in La Pocatiere, Que., all the result of Buy America regulations.

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The federal government tried to blame the Ford government in Ontario for the job losses, but the reality is the culprit is in Washington.

Still, there is plenty of chatter among the provinces that a lack of leadership from Trudeau is the reason Canadian workers are in this situation.

The Federal Transit Administration, which provides funding for transit projects across the United States, has a requirement that the projects buy American.

Just to get funding, the project has to show that “the steel, iron, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States,” according to the grant conditions.