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Don White wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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Tell me again why we're dumping billions down this rat hole?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/bu....html?_r=1&hpw


Just last week GMy closed a truck manufacturing plant in Ontario.
I think the Canadian gov't should forget about stuffing billions into
this dead horse and encourage the best of the Asian companies to build
plants here.

The Asian automanufacturers will go where the labor laws are most
favorable. This means as far away from the UAW/CAW as they can get. The
European and Asian auto manufacturers have already proven that there is a
viable non-union workforce in the southeastern US.

Interesting...a national cable tv program called 'Car Business' did an item
on the new billion dollar assembly plant in Woodstock Ontario.
Yes...this is a Toyota plant producing RAV4s' for the North American market.
(my RAV4 was assembled there)
Seems it was planned to have 3 shifts pumping our 200K SUVs per year but the
downturn has them operating one shift producing 70K RAV4s'.

Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
Tell me again why we're dumping billions down this rat hole?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/bu....html?_r=1&hpw

Just last week GMy closed a truck manufacturing plant in Ontario.
I think the Canadian gov't should forget about stuffing billions into
this dead horse and encourage the best of the Asian companies to build
plants here.
The Asian automanufacturers will go where the labor laws are most
favorable. This means as far away from the UAW/CAW as they can get. The
European and Asian auto manufacturers have already proven that there is a
viable non-union workforce in the southeastern US.

Interesting...a national cable tv program called 'Car Business' did an item
on the new billion dollar assembly plant in Woodstock Ontario.
Yes...this is a Toyota plant producing RAV4s' for the North American market.
(my RAV4 was assembled there)
Seems it was planned to have 3 shifts pumping our 200K SUVs per year but the
downturn has them operating one shift producing 70K RAV4s'.



That's not the economy. It's the lack of interest in RAV4's.