Detroit Once Ruled Canada’s Car Industry. Trump’s Tariffs May End That.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/world/canada/auto-industry-canada-detroit-ontario-car-tariffs.html
Detroit Once Ruled Canada’s Car Industry. Trump’s Tariffs May End That.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/world/canada/auto-industry-canada-detroit-ontario-car-tariffs.html
9 Comments
Sounds good to me.
Japanes vehicles have always been good and the South Korean car manufacturers have come along way over the years and are actually really good now. I’d be happy to move on. We should tariff American pick-up trucks and partner with Nissan and Toyota.
If Canada could manage a boycott on US pick-up trucks, it would cripple the U.S. industry. Won’t happen, but that would be the result.
The US Canada automotive manufacturing was a perfect example of win-win trade. The current US administration is only interested in we win, you lose trade. Canada should move on to new, more willing, and more cooperative trading partners.
Close ties to the EU should allow the small diesel market into Canada. Still need a reasonable big truck option.
In life, things evolve. Sometimes its not easy, but they do.
The US is regressive and out of step with the rest of the world.
Out of step on human rights, on voter’s rights, on decency towards all people, and out of step on the need to transition away from fossil fuel.
The free world is starting to acknowledge it moving on.
Anything but the states. I have bought two new cars in my life, all used otherwise. Both are from outside the states. I will be sure to try this list of Canadian produced cars next time but not US ones.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-automotive-industry/en?OpenDocument
The Detroit auto industry is a dinosaur that doesn’t yet know it is extinct. Cut our ties and move on to better vehicles at much lower prices.
The US does prop up our car manufacturing as logically they should produce the vehicles themselves or offload to Mexico for cheaper labor. There really isn’t much reason to have Canada be a part of the equation and our population can’t support car manufacturing on its own.
On a broader level though, trade deals aren’t 1:1 on every single thing. We sell a lot of discounted resources to the US.