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Opinion: Ontario’s tired auto strategy doesn’t work anymore

As industry employment declines, shovelling money in to preserve jobs makes less and less sense. Stop the subsidies and cue the entrepreneurs

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Its glory days over, Ontario’s auto sector is stumbling towards an embarrassing endgame. Its fatal flaw was doctrinaire policies devised by Ottawa’s self-congratulatory political class and Ontario’s self-appointed economic and trade wizards, who are now in a race to see who can shovel more government “support” into the sector in the name of “protecting” what’s left of this once thriving industry.

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