Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to a meeting with Mary Barra, chairman and CEO of General Motors, in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Trudeau is attending the the World Economic Forum where political, business and social leaders gather to discuss world agendas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
January 21, 2016 - 5:48 AM
DAVOS, Switzerland - Canada's economic development minister says the federal government has received no firm commitments from General Motors about the future of a key plant in the Greater Toronto area.
Navdeep Bains spoke this morning with Mary Barra, CEO of the General Motors Company, just before she had a closed-door meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Bains says the government made the case for GM to keep its plant open in Oshawa, trying to play up Canada as a high-tech hub and Ontario as an automotive centre.
Bains says the company didn't give the government any specifics about the future of the Oshawa plant, which has an uncertain future past 2017.
The plant used to produce the Camaro until General Motors moved production of the car to a plant in Michigan, costing 1,000 employees their jobs.
The company has previously said no decision on the plant will be made until after it concludes union negotiations this year.
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