The same situation faces workers at the Detroit-Hamtramck facility, home of the Impala, Buick LaCrosse, and Chevrolet Volt, as well as the Chevrolet Cruze plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Hester said the company plans to fulfill its promise to hire nearly 1,000 workers at GM's Canadian Technical Center in Markham, Ontario, which opened early last year. Another 500 jobs should be created there by 2020, he said. "We're adding jobs and we're adding development expertise and all the associated things that go with that into Canada, where it just simply wasn't in the past," Hester said. "We see the future very strong here and in Canada for the development side." That doesn't help line workers who lack the skills needed to serve as the brains behind GM's much-publicized push for electric and autonomous vehicles. Speaking after the closure announcement, Premier Ford said a government-funded training program would provide some measure of assistance to workers.