This is not, by early appearances, the deal that Canada’s automotive sector wants or needs.
As trade negotiations entered crunch time this week, industry leaders warned with increasing urgency that Mark Carney could not afford to settle for a rumoured cut to U.S President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-assembled vehicles that would still leave the tariffs too high for those cars to be profitable.
But, as of late Wednesday, as details of a tentative agreement started to leak out, that was what seemed to have happened.
