I talked this morning about all the things I think Canada has to offer right now and that we should be feeling pretty good about. We do a good job of telling ourselves how bad we are all the time when, in fact, that's often not the case.
I talked this morning at the industry committee about the very strong productivity that we see in the manufacturing sector in Canada, which, by the way, has been growing at twice the rate of productivity in the U.S. over the last 15 years. Since 2010, it has grown 13% compared to the U.S.'s productivity growing by 6%—more than double the level of productivity growth.
When I look at our own organization, we have 75 plants around the world, and 29 of them are in Canada. Our most productive facilities by far are in Canada. It is where the vast majority of our investment is going—more than half. Well under half of our plants are here in Canada, but well over half of our investment this year, in 2025, is in our Canadian plants, with our strong, deep teams who have the ability to improve every day like no other plant of ours around the world.
It is important that we all understand that, because it's not just us who are like that. Many people in the manufacturing sector writ more broadly and certainly in the automotive sector, where we have drummed into us the need for lean manufacturing and continuous improvement, have to give 2% price reductions to our customers every single year. Every year, we give 2% back to our customers. Even with that, over the last 10 years, between 2014 and 2024, Linamar increased our productivity—our value-added sales per employee—by 54%. That is a 54% increase even after we gave 2% back to our customers every single year.
That's the kind of productivity that we have in Canada, and it's something we should all feel really proud of and know that we have a base we can build on internationally.