With the ongoing layoffs at Thunder Bay’s Bombardier plant, Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development and Mines is vowing his government will do everything possible to ensure more contracts are shored up for the facility.
Job losses at the facility started last Friday.
Greg Rickford says his government will be working with the Trudeau Liberals to ensure more Canadian projects are built at the facility.
“Would be very helpful if the contracts that we have here in Canada, for Canada, were not offered to another jurisdiction and that’s something we hold the federal government accountable for. We hope that they will come to the table when their new Cabinet forms.”
However, the Kenora-Rainy River MPP says he’s opposed to Liberal MPP Michael Gravelle’s ‘Bombardier’ bill.
“With the greatest of respect to Michael, I don’t accept the premise that a private member’s bill now is part of the solution. We’re committed to working with the federal government moving forward. We want trains for the largest transit expansion in the history of this country, for those trains to be built here.”
The legislation asked all public bodies that purchase mass transit vehicles to meet certain Canadian content regulations.
The bill was defeated in the Legislature.
