With the ongoing layoffs at Thunder Bay’s Bombardier plant, Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development is vowing his government will do everything they can to ensure more contracts are shored up for the local facility.
However, Greg Rickford says they’ll do as much as they can but wouldn’t support the rejected private member’s bill from Liberal MPP Michael Gravelle.
“With great respect to Michael, I don’t accept the premise that a private member’s bill now would be part of the solution. We are committed to working with the federal government moving forward. We want trains for the largest transit expansion in the history of this country and for those trains to be built here.”
Gravelle’s bill asked to require public bodies that purchase mass transit vehicles only be considered eligible if they meet certain Canadian content conditions.
