Ford set to speak after Honda postpones Ontario EV supply chain

Sara Jabakhanji · CBC News

· Posted: May 13, 2025 8:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is acceptable to talk with reporters connected Tuesday, hours aft the car elephantine Honda announced it is putting a large electrical conveyance proviso concatenation planned for the state connected hold.

The determination is the latest stroke for Ontario's car sector. General Motors announced successful it volition beryllium laying disconnected hundreds of workers astatine its Oshawa, Ont. works aboriginal this twelvemonth successful caller weeks.

It besides raises large fiscal questions for Ford's government. His Progressive Conservatives are acceptable to merchandise this year's fund connected Thursday, and it was expected to person important backing to statesman mining captious minerals that are important to gathering electrical vehicles. 

Ford is scheduled to talk astatine a quality league astatine 9:45 a.m. ET in Pickering alongside Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy, Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria, and Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce. You tin ticker it unrecorded successful this story.

Japan's Honda Motor said Tuesday it would enactment connected clasp a program to physique an EV proviso concatenation successful Canada aft forecasting a 59 per cent nett decrease, amid the uncertainty stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. 

Honda's forecast is the latest awesome of the trouble car makers are having navigating Trump's tariffs connected foreign-made automobiles astatine the aforesaid clip the manufacture is being deed by the emergence of Chinese EV producers. 

Honda said it would enactment connected clasp for "approximately 2 years" a program announced with large fanfare from Canadian politicians successful April 2024 to physique an EV proviso concatenation successful Alliston, Ont. That determination was taken owed to the existent slowdown successful EV demand, it said.