There are a number of things, but writ large, it's that the cost of doing business in Canada is too high. Whether it's our tax system, which is not as competitive, or whether it's our investment programs and incentives to get businesses to invest in tech adoption or our skill shortages. The number one issue for manufacturing is that they can't find workers. They can't find the basic number of workers to keep production at current levels, let alone be able to grow.
Until we tackle these challenges, and that's shared by the federal government and provincial governments as well when we're talking about cost of doing business, until we get serious about this.... What the pandemic has shown us is that we need manufacturing. These are good jobs, well-paying jobs. Frankly, if we don't do more than just pay lip service to how great it is, and if we don't help them by creating a more competitive business environment and stemming that flight out of Canada, the investment will go elsewhere.