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Originally Posted by Bigtime

Pretty big news with De Havilland Canada announcing plans to build a manufacturing facility for their aircraft just east of the city.

https://calgaryherald.com/business/v...1mZVk-yvBnzvcc

This is massive news - 1,500 skilled jobs is huge. I've seen a constant stream of white collar management jobs in various disciplines being posted on LinkedIn for the last 8 months by DHC.

The question is - in a labour shortage - where are these skilled machinists going to come from? Boeing had an existing manufacturing base to tap into when they moved to Charleston - that's not the case here. I suspect the existing Viking workforce is included in this 1,500 (got to love PR embellishment) but there's still a new net gap.

Further more - it's 37.2km (33min) by car from DT Calgary to where I think the new plant will be. That's not going to help.