2w ago

Ottawa limits how many American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free

www.cbc.ca /news/politics/ottawa-stellantis-gm-exemptions-american-imports-9.6950640

"This action follows the automakers' unacceptable decision to scale back their manufacturing presences in Canada, directly breaching their commitments to the country and Canadian workers," the government said in a late-night media release.

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wirebeads @lemmy.ca 2w ago
We need our own Canadian owned car company, that we can build and ship at scale to ourselves.
- SaveTheTuaHawk @lemmy.ca 2w ago
  Market is too small to survive.
  Name one quality product designed and made in Canada.
  Even if we did this, needledicks would still need their Silverados.
  
  TheMightyCanuck @sh.itjust.works 2w ago
  "market is too small"
  89% of households have at least one vehicle. That's not a small market
  
  Lemmyoutofhere @lemmy.ca 2w ago
  
  Germany is only double our population, and they have VW/Audi, Mercedes/Smart/Maybach, BMW/Mini/Rolls Royce, Porsche and Opel. And their wages are higher than us. We have no excuse.
  
  yeehaw @lemmy.ca 2w ago
  
  What a fantastic argument. "We don't make anything good, therefore give up". This logic has always irked me. "We call this invention 'the computer'! It's not very fast, and the quality is a bit shaky, so we are just going to give up now and never do this again, because it's not very good."
  Right....
  
  Bluegrass_Addict @lemmy.ca 2w ago
  
  maybe the market is now too big to cater too and countries should start focusing on themselves if the rest of the world won't play nice.
betanumerus @lemmy.ca 2w ago
European, Japanese and Korean cars are better anyway.
randomname @scribe.disroot.org 2w ago
Canada should do the same with Chinese vehicles - at least, as it's possibly a better idea to not let them in.
- Mpatch @lemmy.world 2w ago
  Booo I want my full flood of China cars. You Wana be the "domestic manufacturers "? Well good, keep your domestic overpiced inefficient shitboxes at home.
  
  Scotty @scribe.disroot.org 2w ago
  
  Yeah, just that you can see how the flood of ChEaP cHiAnA cArS are made, a recent example from Brazil:
  [In Brazil], in the same month that Chinese BYD’s car carrier arrived in the country, Brazilian prosecutors announced plans to sue BYD and two of its contractors for ‘slave like conditions’ at a factory site. A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site [...] where Chinese electric vehicle company BYD is building a factory.
  The [Brazilian] Labor Prosecutor’s Office released videos of the dorms where the [Chinese] construction workers were staying, which showed beds with no mattresses and rooms without any places for the workers to store their personal belongings.
  Officials said [BYD contractor] Jinjiang [...] had confiscated the workers’ passports and held 60% of their wages. Those who quit would be forced to pay the company for their airfare from China, and for their return ticket, the statement said.
  Prosecutors said the sanitary situation at BYD’s site in Camaçari was especially critical, with only one toilet for every 31 workers, forcing them to wake up at 4 a.m. to line up and get ready to leave for work at 5:30 a.m.
  
  SaveTheTuaHawk @lemmy.ca 2w ago
  I want my full flood of China cars.
  Enjoy your TEMU car.
  See Australia. They stopped local car production with Ford and GM, they were the first to import Chinese EVs, and surprise, they are flimsy shit.
  Now, BYD is dumping cars into Australia, filling up every parking lot they can find, while suppliers in China and not getting paid. The whole Chinese EV industry is a bubble.
- humanspiral @lemmy.ca 2w ago
  Yes. Quotas at a small tariff level would mean that they would charge a fair price, and quota goes up as their investment in Canada goes up.
  
  randomname @scribe.disroot.org 2w ago
  These cheap Chinese cars are made with slave-like labour and other coercive measures, no tariffs can ever change that. When made by slave-labour, there is no such thing as a fair price.
corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca 2w ago
I like the limit at 1, only because there's no embiguity then. One. The rest you pay tariffs.
Make it 10 years; none of this "until Trump stops being a baby" nonsense. 10 years will push someone into starting a plant.
Dave @lemmy.ca 2w ago
Tesla was boycotted by Canadian consumers, and I'm sorry to say, 'and with a lot of sadness,' this will be my last GM product in my driveway. As a trucker once said, "How do you like me now?"

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