Our Community, Windsor-Essex County has one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada.  Recently, Ford Motor Company was considering Windsor, Ontario as a potential site for a new global engine that would create 1,000 new jobs for our Community with spin-off jobs resulting in approximately 7,000 new jobs for Windsor-Essex County, thereby adding millions back into our economy.  Ford considered Windsor because its Windsor Operations have consistently out-performed the company's benchmark for quality, cost and productivity.  A condition of Ford building in Windsor is Federal and Provincial Government investment.  Our Governments have decided that this investment does not suit their platform or benefit tax-payers.  We, the tax-payers, disagree.  

We are here to implore both Governments to reconsider their decision and re-open talks with Ford.  This is critically important to the economic health of Windsor-Essex County as well as to the export and manufacturing sectors.  

Our Community needs decent jobs that pay a living-wage and are productive like those offered by Ford.  These jobs will give us the opportunity to support local businesses and contribute more tax dollars to our municipalities allowing our landscape and infrastructure to improve and grow -- giving our children a hopeful future.

Embracing the development of new jobs is imperative for Windsor-Essex County to thrive and prosper and will benefit everyone: Citizens, Government and Corporations.  

Working together and re-evaluating their positions we would like to urge our Government and Ford Motor Company to re-open talks, reach an agreement regarding their respective investments.  This would result in increased profit, quality production, additional tax dollars, reduced unemployment and a thriving Community.  We believe taking action and re-opening talks is the key to the success of our future.

Take action.  Please sign this position.  Sign for our future.