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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Pretty easy to complain about the costs of the battery plants when you have a nice cushy white collar job in Ottawa and it's not your livelihood on the line.
There's a reason the US and the EU are both going hard to defend EV manufacturing. And those reasons go well beyond economics. Good on the Liberals for not putting Southern Ontario in a position to lose most of its auto manufacturing over the next decade and turning the place into Indiana. One of the few positive policies from this government.
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The EU is not matching in any way these subsidies. Granted they have their own market.
We all have different jobs so I don't think that is releveant. While certainly Volpe and the auto unions are in favor of subsidies that doesn't prove they are efficient. The idea that car manufacturing needs to be near the battery production makes little sense.
Indiana is a funny reference as I know someone that works in a small factory in Toronto and they company also has a plant in Indiana. Indiana has nearly as many manufacturing jobs as Ontario 600k vs 800k even though it is half the size. The constraint there is finding workers. Salaries are lower but you can buy a house walking distance to the facilty for $200k.
Nah better to bring in more people in 2 years than the total number of manufacturing jobs in the province. Let's spend millions per job. Sounds like a great idea.