Windsor - The Distribution Capital of Canada
It is time people realized what Windsor is really all about. It is about Distribution. Like it or not, the fact that automotive presence has existed here for the last 100 years is because of our convenient location to ship product to major centers like Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and so on. It's a fact-companies manufacture goods to sell to their final consumer. The easiest place for the "Big 3" and other manufacturers to ship their products to mass populations in the east and west has been Windsor.
Can it therefore be said that good distribution environments create jobs????
The simple answer is "YES".
We had 2 great border crossings for years that have deteriorated since 1961 from the increase of traffic off the 401. Windsor needs to define itself as the "place to distribute" once again. Our best asset is our location, and if we make it easy for companies to ship goods through our city, they will invest here yet again. If they invest Windsor our job market will blossom.
It's a simple understanding of business. Something our existing council knows nothing about and explains an 8.6% unemployment rate.
Also, Toyota and Honda are investing in Ontario. But, why not Windsor? It's because we have no border solution. The choice to invest in cities like Woodstock is clear. Sarnia and Fort Erie are both 1.5 hours away and have viable US-bound traffic movement.
We need to tunnel our traffic beneath our city so that there will be facilitated traffic movement like Sarnia and Fort Erie.
Its time for someone who knows business to enter City Council.
Greg Baggio
MBA, B. Comm. (Hon.)
Council Candidate Ward 1
Can it therefore be said that good distribution environments create jobs????
The simple answer is "YES".
We had 2 great border crossings for years that have deteriorated since 1961 from the increase of traffic off the 401. Windsor needs to define itself as the "place to distribute" once again. Our best asset is our location, and if we make it easy for companies to ship goods through our city, they will invest here yet again. If they invest Windsor our job market will blossom.
It's a simple understanding of business. Something our existing council knows nothing about and explains an 8.6% unemployment rate.
Also, Toyota and Honda are investing in Ontario. But, why not Windsor? It's because we have no border solution. The choice to invest in cities like Woodstock is clear. Sarnia and Fort Erie are both 1.5 hours away and have viable US-bound traffic movement.
We need to tunnel our traffic beneath our city so that there will be facilitated traffic movement like Sarnia and Fort Erie.
Its time for someone who knows business to enter City Council.
Greg Baggio
MBA, B. Comm. (Hon.)
Council Candidate Ward 1
posted by Gregory R. Baggio, MBA, B. Comm. (Hon.) | 1:04 PM
2 Comments:
"Also, Toyota and Honda are investing in Ontario. But, why not Windsor?"
You don't think Windsor's militant union environment has anything to do with this?
Whether Toyota and Honda invest in Windsor or Woodstock or elsewhere, they will eventually have a union. Sure the Union "beliefs" are stronger in Windsor, but what has the city done in recent years to attract them here?
The answer is nothing.
Where was our Economic Development Commissioner?
Windsor had not hired one for 2 years.
We are too pre-occupied with the "small things" such as video cameras along Ouellette, instead of working on an 8.6% Unemployment crisis.
Time to market our city__Windsor is open for business.
Greg Baggio
MBA, B. Comm. (Hon.)
Council Candidate Ward 1
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