Volkswagen, the world’s biggest car company, said Friday it will build its first manufacturing facility in Canada near the southwestern Ontario town of St. Thomas. Volkswagen says it will spend $7 billion to build a plant that will make batteries for the electric vehicles of the future, and the federal government is promising to backstop that investment and give Volkswagen as much as $13 billion over 10 years. David Akin has more.
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