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If Canada Auto can’t survive, let it fade away. Courting China is not the solution

Automakers have shifted production away from Canada, but the sector’s problems predate recent U.S. tariffs

Prime Minister Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump on June 16 justifying Chinese EV imports. “Less than 3 per cent of our market, 49,000 cars,” Mr. Carney said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in France. “It’s a cap, we capped, a hard line … I thought you’d actually like that.”

Mr. Trump does like it, Mr. Carney told reporters later.

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