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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Everyone really enjoys piling on Azure here but the "all in Canada auto manufacturing network" idea seems pretty dumb to me, too.
If the thinking is that we just have to outlast this and everything will go back to normal in a few years (or sooner if he dies), then why make dramatic shifts in the way the industry works? If the thinking is that trade barriers between the USA and Canada is the new normal, or that we should act like it is, then it makes even less sense, because without selling cars to Americans there's no point in manufacturing them in Canada at all - no one else will buy them.
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I could be wrong but I had thought that Canada loosely manufactures around the same number of cars that is sold. Quick google searches suggest we import more from the US than we sell to them.
So in the scenario where you build your own independent industry essentially what you are doing is stopping importing from the US due to Tarrifs and consuming the cars that used to be exported. The whole myth in this is that there is some dramatic trade imbalance in the auto sector.
If we are building non economic east to west pipelines for nation building we should build non economic car plants too. Usually Azure is team build something NOW. Now he is complaining about a do something NOW.