“Your second home” and “Automotive innovation lives here,” read the signs that hung from the rafters, and were posted on the walls and at the booths. There was so much Canada that there was an Invest in Canada booth in one hall and an entirely separate booth for Ontario in another. None of the other half-dozen countries with representation at Germany’s biggest auto show had two booths.
Mines-to-mobility is the promise that Canada can provide everything needed for the development and construction of, from the raw materials to the assembly plants to the training of workers and the eventual recycling. Invest in Canada was there to press this point home to anyone who would listen. Ms. Broten was speaking on the phone from the back seat of a car pressing its way through Stuttgart traffic on her way to meetings in Frankfurt. She attended the Munich show the day before, where she hosted a forum titled, The Future of the EV Battery Supply Chain: Canada’s Momentum.Mark Richardson/The Globe and Mail