We’re in the transition to the electric age, we better step it up

We will need top research and engineering talent and skilled workers if the industry is to succeed. And the electric grid itself will have to expand significantly.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Oct. 8, 2020, with Unifor president Jerry Dias at the Ford Connectivity and Innovation Centre in Kanata, Ont., where he announced the retooling of the Oakville Ford assembly plant to produce electric vehicles.
TORONTO—It’s one of the biggest industrial challenges Canada has faced: this is the transition to the electric age in mobility, with the movement of people and goods—cars and trucks, buses, railways, aircraft and ships—shifting at a fast pace to electric batteries and away from oil. Billion...

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