Make Ontario Great

[sumdumguy]

Lawrence Solomon article in Financial Post lays out the path to turning Ontario around. Farming 101 can post? What happened in Ontario is totally criminal.

[15444]

Lots of good ideas. MOGA!

https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-make-ontario-hydro-great-again-by-reviving-the-common-sense-revolution https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-make-ontario-hydro-great-again-by-reviving-the-common-sense-revolution

[sumdumguy]

The recipe to make Canada great again.

[bucket]

Who says the auto jobs have to be in Ontario? Maybe its time someone out here gets their head out of their ass and starts lobbying for those jobs on a greenfield site in Saskatchewan....

Those billions spent on overpasses would have went a long way to getting an auto plant....

[Oliver88]

Who says the auto jobs have to be in Ontario? Maybe its time someone out here gets their head out of their ass and starts lobbying for those jobs on a greenfield site in Saskatchewan....

Those billions spent on overpasses would have went a long way to getting an auto plant....

Fiat does own CNH and they have a world class facility north of Saskatoon.

It might be too efficient for the auto sector though.

[Hopalong]

Trudeau government has time to change course before next election if it wants to win.
Co-operation with Ontario, along with prairies, should be number one on list.
An event like October crisis, where Trudeau the elder showed leadership, might even be enough to revive decreasing support for Justin.

[dalek]

Who says the auto jobs have to be in Ontario? Maybe its time someone out here gets their head out of their ass and starts lobbying for those jobs on a greenfield site in Saskatchewan....

Those billions spent on overpasses would have went a long way to getting an auto plant....

It’s not just building an assembly plant anymore though, planning the logistics is much more important. You can’t even get your grain off the prairies, who in their right mind is going to take a climate control switch built right here in Ontario, a headlight assembly built 3 blocks away, 17 other parts built in the GTA, 14 built in Ohio, 32 in Michigan, a couple dozen others made around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, another 100 coming off boats on the Eastern seaboard or St Lawrence, assemble some into dashboards in one sub contractors plant and some into seats in another and transmissions in another etc etc and ship all that crap off to Saskatchewan only to ship cars back on trains that might never come? Then with all that prairie in between they have to build extra warehouse space to make sure they have enough parts to keep the line rolling in case a blizzard shuts down the flow of whoosits, which is a cost they don’t have in Ontario because they just let the trucking companies use the 401 for just in time warehousing.
You might as well wish for a slaughter plant for unicorns

[Misterjade9]

Ditto, manufacturing, while nice and has good paying jobs would languish with not being able to get it's products to market just like oil and our commodities suffer. Equipment manufacturing on the prairies is a little different because our market is here and the volume of products that need to be exported is lower than the auto sector. With all that being said why in the hell can we not get any major value added food processing off the ground in this province? I realize that we are a long ways from major consuming populations, but what would the value be of a boxcar full of granola bars be compared to raw oats being sent south.

[bucket]

It’s not just building an assembly plant anymore though, planning the logistics is much more important. You can’t even get your grain off the prairies, who in their right mind is going to take a climate control switch built right here in Ontario, a headlight assembly built 3 blocks away, 17 other parts built in the GTA, 14 built in Ohio, 32 in Michigan, a couple dozen others made around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, another 100 coming off boats on the Eastern seaboard or St Lawrence, assemble some into dashboards in one sub contractors plant and some into seats in another and transmissions in another etc etc and ship all that crap off to Saskatchewan only to ship cars back on trains that might never come? Then with all that prairie in between they have to build extra warehouse space to make sure they have enough parts to keep the line rolling in case a blizzard shuts down the flow of whoosits, which is a cost they don’t have in Ontario because they just let the trucking companies use the 401 for just in time warehousing.
You might as well wish for a slaughter plant for unicorns

I would take any kind of slaughter house in Saskatchewan. ...