Sure, you can highlight the failures(and to be fair, the auto sector is probably closer to 500k employment from what I have seen) but you ignore the successes, that is, Canada is not a struggling country with a standard of living similar to the ones you want to buy cheap stuff from. To suggest this would raise the standard of living for Canada basically ignores all known economic and trade theory for the concept of "I like shiny things".
By abandoning the automotive sector in Canada, you then also lose the peripheral advantages like natural resource sales, hurting our mining industry.
And do you have evidence the government isn't supporting solar and R&D?
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