It would be interesting to have an accurate, non spun, total dollar amount including administrative costs that the Ontario and Federal gov'ts have gifted the automotive industry,  (I hesitate to use the word investment) and how many current jobs were saved, or new positions created and subsequently the taxes collected after the transaction.

It might have been just as effective to give the funds directly to the employees and let the auto manufacturing companies make their own investment decisions based upon their own business models.  During the last major bail out, it was roughly calculated that each job saved cost the tax payers approx $350,000 per, and that was probably on the optimistic side.