Speaker, Honda’s $15-billion investment is a game-changer for our auto sector and for our entire province. This would not have happened without Honda’s long-standing history here in Ontario and especially with the dedicated team of workers at Honda, who produce some of the best-selling vehicles made in Canada; Premier Ford, as you heard, the best closer at the negotiating table, and a strong team—thank you to them—our team, who were introduced earlier, with their deep understanding of the auto sector; the officials in our ministry and their tremendous work and countless hours; and every member of this government—treasury, finance, infrastructure, energy, mines, labour. It was an all-of-government effort.

Speaker, this is a new chapter now in Ontario’s auto sector. We are an EV manufacturing powerhouse.

We are the EV-manufacturing powerhouse.

We are building an end-to-end electric vehicle supply chain here in Ontario. We are certainly a complete difference from what we saw with the NDP-backed Liberals.

We now have Dana in Cambridge investing $60 million, hiring 105 new people with $2.5 million in support. They are making components for EV batteries and electronics. We have the Ontario Automotive Modernization Program: 26 Ontario companies are investing $10 million, with 111 new jobs being created by those companies with $3.5 million in support. With investments like these, we’re making sure that Ontario continues to be the global leader in electric vehicle and parts productions.

We are, as the Premier said earlier, the economic powerhouse. TNR Doors in Oro-Medonte: a $40-million investment, 30 new jobs and $5 million in support from the province. German manufacturer PWO: a $10-million investment in Kitchener, 27 new jobs, a $1.5-million investment from the province of Ontario.

Speaker, we will always support Ontario’s manufacturers, and that’s why we are leading the EV revolution.

Mr. Speaker, we have lowered the cost of business by $8 billion a year. That has attracted $27 billion of electric vehicle investments, 120,000 men and women working in that sector and that is going to produce, here in Ontario. We saw General Motors have the first electric vehicles in Canadian history come off their assembly line.

In Ingersoll, we’re producing clean and emission-free vehicles here in Ontario. These are built with Ontario workers right here in our province. Our batteries will be a 100% clean energy. You get a battery in Kentucky made with 6% clean energy or go to Indiana and get a battery with 7% clean energy.

Here in Ontario, we’re making green steel, which will produce zero-emission vehicles. That’s what we’re doing in the province of Ontario.