The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, May 6, edition that Magna International chief executive officer Don Walker says the federal and Ontario
governments should focus
their auto investment efforts
on making sure Canada retains
the assembly plants that are already
here.
The Globe's Greg Keenan writes that Mr. Walker says that means making sure Fiat
Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor, General
Motors, Honda Motor and Toyota Motor
keep making vehicles in Canada.
The facilities in most danger
are GM plants in Oshawa, Ont.,
and an FCA large-car factory in
Brampton, Ont. The future of the plants
are in doubt for different reasons.
The Brampton factory is
the only assembly plant that makes FCA's Chrysler
300, Dodge Challenger and
Dodge Charger cars, but it
needs a new paint shop, which
would cost about $500-million
and lead to a shutdown of the
plant for at least six months.
The GM Oshawa plants,
meanwhile, have no new vehicles
allocated to them later this
decade. GM of Canada
president Steve Carlisle says allocation of new
vehicles depends on negotiations
with unionized workers and on
discussions with governments.
Those talks start this
summer.
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