The Ontario government is fine-tuning details in its decision to sole-source the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Line 2 Rocket car production to Alstom in Thunder Bay.

"It is pretty much confirmed that we have the bulk of the major assembly and all the final assembly happening at the Thunder Bay plant," Justin Roberts, president of Unifor local 1075, said, adding that it's not finalized.

"The company and the government are still in negotiations on the Canadian content."

With both the federal and provincial governments mandating to build Canadian content, Roberts said they are not going to go with the typical 25 per cent Canadian content.

"They're striving for 60, 70 and even 80 per cent for this contract. That being said, the company and the government have to negotiate the inflated c

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