Honda Canada president discusses $15-billion electric vehicle investment

You you already employ I think 4200 workers in in Alliston ON. I know that Minister Champagne was asked whether there have been any guarantees around temporary foreign workers and jobs for Canadians. Has any of that been written into to the deal? No, but what we have done. Listen, our objective is to optimize Canadian jobs. Although we understand what happened, whether the manufacturers, one of the things we were very aware of is what what went on there. And again, I don’t have all the details, but for sure this is not something that we want to entertain. One thing that I’ve done is I’ve reached out to the Canadian Building Trade Union Executive Director, Sean Strickland to have a conversation and discuss a memorandum of understanding so that we could move forward together. And you know, the interest for us is to meet the, you know, the timelines of the construction and I think with communication directly with them and making sure that Canadians have these constructions job, that’s what we can do at the moment to make sure that you know we will fulfill that objective.