It is now exactly 562 days since Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Even longer since he proclaimed that the United States no longer needs Canadian cars (not to mention lumber, energy, and dairy). In that time, there has been despair, lots of head-scratching, even more outright bewilderment, and, of course, the requisite amount of political finger-pointing. What there hasn’t been a lot of — at least not as it pertains the Canada’s auto industry — is the kind of planning one would expect when faced with an existential threat to a country’s second largest industry.
Motor Mouth: The political calculations that could kill Canada’s auto industry
