CBC:
[Ray Tanguay, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada,] said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained – and often illiterate – workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use “pictorials” to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.
CBC:
WASHINGTON – U.S. President George W. Bush has officially nominated David Wilkins, a longtime family friend and top Republican fundraiser, to be the new American ambassador to Canada.
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A father of two, Wilkins is a fiscal and social conservative who headed Bush’s two campaign efforts in the state.
He raised more than $200,000 US for Bush in last year’s election and is close to the president’s father, George H. W. Bush.
It’s less clear how much he knows about Canada. The Associated Press reported that Wilkins had only been to the country once, about three decades ago while he was in the U.S. Army Reserve.
