LOL sure.
"Canada's Automotive industry going independent of the US"
Next a news article about how your appendix going "independent of the rest of your body."
Canada doesn't HAVE a car industry. They are the outsourced production shop for the US car industry.
And, if you're capable of 2nd order thinking, ask yourself why so many US manufacturers put some parts and assembly work in Canada?
Per AI:
US carmakers established factories in Canada primarily
to bypass high Canadian tariffs on imported vehicles in the early 20th century, later expanding to benefit from lower labor costs, a skilled workforce, and integrated supply chains under trade agreements like the 1965 Auto Pact and NAFTA.
Key reasons for Canadian manufacturing include:
Tariff Avoidance: Early in the 20th century, Canada placed a 35% tariff on imported cars, forcing companies like Ford to open factories in Canada to sell to the Canadian market, as well as to other parts of the British Empire which gave preferential treatment to Canadian-made goods.
The Auto Pact (1965): The Canadaâ"United States Automotive Products Agreement eliminated tariffs, allowing the Big Three to integrate production, making it efficient to produce specific models in Canada for the entire North American market.
Cost and Logistics: Lower Canadian wages compared to the US and favorable exchange rates (lower Canadian dollar) made production cost-effective. Close proximity to Detroit (Windsor-Detroit corridor) allowed for easy logistics.
Wait, so you're saying Canada put up....prohibitive tariffs blocking US goods? To drive manufacturing into Canada? And it worked? I thought only the Orange Baboon did things like that to friendly neighbors?
And then after those tariffs went away (in 1965 I guarantee it wasn't "for the good of consumers" lol) that the artificially-propped-up US dollar effectively benefited Canada's economy and workers, the same way the same action benefitted who else? European postwar manufacturers as well?
I know most of you are raging and will be unable to even see this paragraph but I think Trump's fight with Canada is stupid and egotistical. If he hadn't been such a moron, Poilievre would have won handily and the US & Canada could be - as usual, as natural - cooperating on bigger, more important issues.
But let's not pretend the US hasn't since WW2 deeply & generously advantaged other economies, and it's no longer a postwar world. The US can't afford to keep buying everyone lunch, not when we borrow 25c of every dollar from the future. That's dumb. I also think it's dumb to start fights with everyone like an egotistical child but whatever.