ONTARIO GOVERNMENT AUTOMOTIVE PROMOTION POLICY NEEDS TO GENERATE MORE INVESTMENT SAYS UNION

THE ONTARIO government has launched a Canadian dollars CAD40 million (USD29.8 million) policy package designed to grow the Canadian province’s auto-sector and stem the haemorrhaging of its jobs and output to Mexico and the southern USA. However, while these is support for the plan in the industry, there is also skepticism that this policy package will move the needle on preserving auto output in Canada’s most populous province. Industrial intervention was always going to be a tough call for the new populist Conservative government of Premier Doug Ford, ...


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