
It’s the spring of 2022 and federal and Ontario government officials are standing on the floor of a General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., to announce they were giving the automaker more than half a billion dollars.
The Detroit-based carmaker would use the money as part of a $2-billion plan to reopen the Chevrolet Silverado truck plant in Oshawa and retool a factory in Ingersoll, Ont., to build BrightDrop electric parcel vans.
