Yes, mindless public policy can't give forever. It's not just that lower cost jurisdictions have developed their skilled workforce, it's that Ontario stopped its thinking on the next steps that would foster the actual next gen of personal transport. 

Ontario needs to move from simply shovelling hundreds of millions of tax dollars to the automakers to retain some jobs here and redirect that massive wealth of public money to auto tech - driverless cars, electric vehicles, and the iterations following those, as well as the infrastructure - charging stations, roads, highways - to support these new technologies.