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(Update)
40 new high-skilled jobs are coming to Fort Erie. Airbus helicopters announced Tuesday morning it’s adding a new production line at it’s Fort Erie plant. Hiring more high tech workers is so significant in the economically battered Niagara Region that even the Premier was there to take some credit for the good news.
Premier Kathleen Wynne: “It’s just a wonderful organization. Congratulations Romain. The announcement today, 40 new jobs.”
Forty new jobs on a new production line that will manufacture engine cowls for the airbus helicopter used in the oil and gas
industry.
Romain Trapp is the CEO of Airbus Helicopters: “This announcement is a great way for us to kick off 2014. We are celebrating 30 years of manufacturing and success in Canada. We are looking forward to more announcements and success in 2014.”
“Like everyone else I was super excited. It make you sit a little easier. I’ve only been here for about six months.”
Airbus helicopters’ 240 employees were in the hangar Tuesday morning to hear the news.
“It’s good for Niagara Region. It’s good for Fort Erie.”
Forty additional high skilled jobs is great news for Fort Erie and certainly reason to celebrate. But the news everyone in the town wants to hear is whether the Fort Erie Race Track with its hundreds of jobs will open for business this season.
Premier Kathleen Wynne danced around the race track issue. But she did take some credit for the jobs announcement by saying the government’s skilled trades training initiatives are part of the reason for the expansion.
She was asked if her visit here was more about politics than anything else: “I’m not going to deny I’m very interested in doing well in the by-election.”
The Premier was referring to next Thursday’s byelection in the Niagara Falls riding. But political insiders say, it doesn’t matter how many visits the Premier makes. It will remain a tight race between the NDP and the PC’s.