Our Hydro prices are about middle-of-the-road in North America. We have a tiered-use system that sees prices as high as 13.2¢/kWh On-Peak (during the day) and 6.5¢/kWh Off-peak (at night), with an average around 8-9¢/kWh IIRC. Far from expensive, but when everyone compares our prices to Quebec (one of the cheapest in NA and is something around 4¢/kWh average IIRC) it seems astronomical.
Labour rates generally aren't too crazy either, we do have a relatively high minimum wage of $14/hr, but when unions start to run the show and wages become "competitive" it starts getting out of hand. Cami is in my hometown and IIRC the average employee takes home something around $35/hr. Toyota in Woodstock and Cambridge are over $35/hr at their highest rate, even though they aren't unionized, but they still have to pay competitive wages or they'd never have enough employees. A lot of the feeder plants (i.e. the places that make components; engines, doors, etc) are in the $20-25/hr range and they have an astronomically high turnover rate, nobody wants to do the work unless there's huge money involved. I'm wondering if this is the reason; why pay thousands of ungrateful employees >$30/hr for work that can be done for <$10/hr virtually anywhere else on the planet? Even by the time you factor in the costs of shipping vehicles it's gotta be thousands of dollars cheaper per-vehicle. It can't be easy to justify the cost to shareholders unless the (monetary) benefits massively outweigh the cons