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In May 2026, Honda suspended plans for an EV production complex in Ontario.",[759],{"type":597,"attrs":760},{"color":599},"Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister, and Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, have committed to investing CAD 8.7 billion (USD 6.2 billion) into Ontario’s automotive and steel industries, as well as its critical mineral supply chain. The investment comes accompanied by various policies across the three sectors that aim at supporting their economic growth amid Canada’s weakened trade relationship with the US.\n\n",[763],{"slug":764,"name":705,"content":765},"george-whitcombe",{"job_title":766,"image":767,"bio":769,"linkedin":770,"markets_covered":771},"Analyst - EV",{"filename":768},"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/500x500/e5fa44ebf8/george-whitecombe.jpeg","George is an EV Analyst at Rho Motion, working in the EV & Battery research team. He works extensively on global EV sales and production analysis, considering the economic and legislative factors that influence both. He also focuses on the strategy of automotive OEMs in the transition to EVs and feeds that into the team’s view on global vehicle markets. George graduated from the University of Exeter with a First Class Honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-whitcombe-2320111b6/","EV and Battery","article","Canada investing to strengthen auto and steel industries",[775,778,781,784],{"slug":776,"name":777},"ev","EV",{"slug":779,"name":780},"geopolitics","Geopolitics",{"slug":782,"name":783},"critical-minerals","Critical Minerals",{"slug":785,"name":786},"raw-materials","Raw Materials","private",{"id":49,"alt":49,"name":599,"focus":49,"title":49,"source":49,"filename":599,"copyright":49,"fieldtype":789,"meta_data":790},"asset",{},{"id":792,"alt":599,"name":599,"focus":599,"title":599,"source":599,"filename":793,"copyright":599,"fieldtype":789,"meta_data":794,"is_external_url":50},235200142804540,"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/4574x3030/6dfa796bd2/canada-parliament.jpeg",{},"Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister, and Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, have committed to investing CAD 8.7 billion (USD 6.2 billion) into Ontario’s automotive and steel industries, as well as its critical mineral supply chain.","Oct 27, 2026","27th October 2026",[],[],1793122507220]