Ontario paid 2/3rds the price of the downtown streetcars and 100% of the cost of the Transit City vehicles and I'm pretty sure Thunder Bay is in Ontario. There aren't that many employers in Thunder Bay so I guess the question is, is our money better spent getting good quality equipment built where labour costs and land costs are low, or sending more social assistance to Thunder Bay. In addition, does it really make sense to build a street car factory in every city that needs street cars? That will simply increase the cost of manufacturing due to reduced economies of scale. If one city can play the only by local game then every city can.
