The Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce (WERCC) has won an award for its efforts on advocating for a provincial auto strategy.
Over the past weekend, the chamber received the 2016 Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) Advocacy Award at the OCC’s Annual General Meeting in Oakville.
“The automotive strategy is about much more than our current situation in which we have over 100,000 people in Ontario that depend directly on the automotive sector employment, but it is not uniquely about their future, it is about Ontario’s future and the future of the next generations to come,” says WERCC President and CEO Matt Marchand in a media release.
Over the past two years, the chamber succeeded in launching a successful advocacy campaign to help put an auto strategy and advisor on the government’s agenda.
In May 2014, the WERCC partnered with the University of Windsor and Unifor to hold its first ever Policy and Solutions Forum to discuss key automotive issues impacting the local region and the province.
The WERCC will be holding another automotive strategy forum in Windsor on May 11.
