TORONTO -- The last vehicles of an era rolled out of GM Canada's Oshawa assembly plant last week, but workers and the union behind them hope it's not the end of the line.
McCabe sees conventional auto production in Canada as stable at best going forward, if not declining. The sector has already seen cutbacks in the past year at Ford's Oakville, Ont., plant, Fiat Chrysler's Windsor, Ont., plant, and of course GM's Oshawa assembly plant. But while Canada's auto industry hasn't seen the major investments made in the U.S., like GM's announcement of a US$2.3-billion battery plant in Ohio and billions of dollars to build an all-new electric pickup truck in Detroit, it should still see increases in electric production, said Dziczek.
Green Jobs Oshawa, the group Leah is a part of, would like to see the Oshawa plant also get into the electric race, with an aim to produce about 150,000 electric vehicles over five years focusing on postal trucks and other federal vehicles.
Should be interesting just the amount of charge stations they'll have to have along highways just here in SK ,to get to the city to work or get groceries
It’s not all the jobs have gone to USA imo
Electric age at 2% of market share -
The path forward is free electric transit, active transportation and high speed electric rail 🚎 🚲 🛹 🚞
Not in Ontario! Hydro is too expensive! Then again with the carbon tax we are getting very close!
Unclear? No, it’s clear that the combination of greedy unions, uncompetitive Liberal policies, as well as NAFTA, have caused irreversible damage to Canada’s auto sector, and the continuing exodus of tens of thousands of good Canadian jobs.
Electric age LMAO I blew coffe out my nose reading that bullcrap
Yeah, I'm sure it was Tesla that shut _General_Motors down in Oshawa. NOTHING to do with the CarbonTaxScam or 15 years of Liberal mismanagement by Kathleen_Wynne and her predecessors ... FakeNews
The path is quite clear to me. Retool these plants for electric vehicles.
Unclear Retrain them!!! Simple.
electric age my old a$$ Thank the unions Thank the Ontario Liberals Thank our face pointed PM
Electric age? LMAO
Is this due to the new climate initiative? The oil fields were shut down without any replacement industry/jobs, is the auto industry w/no replacement jobs along those lines? I’ve been reading mixed news reports. JustinTrudeau ClimateReality
This is an interesting read.
Stopping the e car credit is probably what they wanted. Don't feel sorry for them at all.
The path for Canada is very unclear period. We just elected to go backward.
High taxes and high energy costs discourage investment. Ontario has both.
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