“One of the remarkable things about life,” said the great sage Calvin — co-star, along with Hobbes, the tiger, of “the last great newspaper comic strip” — is that “it’s never so bad it can’t get worse.” So did the Canadian auto industry find out last Sunday, when the Chinese ambassador to our country, Wang Di, told CTV News reporter Vassy Kapelos that “China [would] remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada” if we, in turn, eliminated the tariffs we’ve imposed on Chinese electric vehicles.
Tough call for the Elbow people ahead.
Carney luvs China as does our China class but his Liberal Party also hates the West.
Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to re-shore auto assembly and as we have seen with Stellantis auto manufacturers are heeding his call.
It may be that Canada’s auto-industry or what’s left of it is part supply only.
