"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

Mercedes used to promote a "one wiper" concept, and it touted it's one-wiper cars.

It's called "vertical integration". What they used to do in the US.

It is too soon to see how this ends.  It will take one person with vision in Canada to put it all together.....

The great economic dilemma….citizens prefer “cheap “
But what if it tears down …the citizens own job?

Two things stood out. The cost and safety. As for the reaction by vested interests in Ontario both Premier Ford and union heads have elections to consider.

There are many organizations that WANT  WANT  WANT and a few actually  DO  DO  DO..............

When a World Class Banker  audits - the - books and sees  things  objectively,  the  writing's  on  the  wall -  look .. !

Yes

Good deal for both countries. Canadians get great cars and China gets cana😮dian farmproduce.

It all makes sence to find the best économie possible : and human partners that work for the people not for the One Boss !

BYD now makes videos too

And America went to just in time production instead of vertical production, adding cost, delays, and quality concerns. 😮

Give me a direct cost estimate on your electric bill on how much it cost to constantly have to recharge the thing because believe me the seagull is not getting you very far. But it is far enough for most people's daily drive. But several years ago I had a son who was thinking about buying a Chevrolet Volt which is a really good hybrid as hybrids go. But he's also an electrical engineer as a matter of fact he teaches electrical engineers how electricity works on a subatomic level. At the time he had a Dodge pickup. After crunching the numbers and seeing how much electricity it would use and his daily Drive. He realized it would cost him more to plug in and charge up that Chevrolet Volt then it would for him to continue to drive the Dodge pick up. What's really neat is the Chevrolet Volt if you drove it just with the engine got 42 Mi per gallon and about navigate to 30 Mi per gallon in town and at that time when you bought premium fuel it was only a nickel more than regular fuel that was about two and a half cents more for mid-grade and 2 1/2 cents for premium. It's not that way any longer even though it cost not a single penny more to produce, load, and deliver premium fuel than it does regular fuel. And all of these people are talking about how they won't let them rip you off at the gas pump by print charging too much for fuel. But every single gallon of regular fuel today cost a minimum of 40 to 50 cents more and most premium fuel cost a dollar or almost $2 more if not more than that per gallon. That is thievery pure and simple. Cut the crap, and do like Europe did and make regular fuel at 90 octane and a reasonable price. You can have premium fuel for the people who want to drive the turbocharged and supercharged cars. But it shouldn't cost more than about a nickel a gallon more. I still remember Eisenhower is President so I also still remember seeing gas for 14.9 cents a gallon add premium at that time was never more than about 16 cents a gallon. It finally stabilized a couple of years later at about 17.9% for regular and 19.9 for premium for years. The only reason they charge more for premium is because it's called premium and they wanted a couple of cents just to show that it was different. In 2007 I got remarried. And in the winter time it wouldn't matter which fuel you ran in my wife's car because it was so cold that it got lousy gas mileage if you didn't drive it a considerable difference. But in the summertime when you always ran the air conditioner, I would go out of my way all the way up till the time when they were had 10 cent difference between regular and premium and it was still cheaper to run premium in that car during the summer. It had the 2.7 L V6 engine. And the only thing you have to remember with that engine, cuz it was very over-engineered in the PCV system. Does you had to run good synthetic oil and you had to change it every 5,000 miles and use a good oil filter the engine was fine it's the people who wouldn't change oil in it that destroyed it constantly. That car would get 35 Mi to gallon quite readily around town she was regularly getting between 28 and 33 Mi per gallon. Because I've wrenched on cars since 1964 I know what is necessary to get decent fuel mileage. But it takes a properly designed engine and getting the octane level to balance where it needs to be. The electric cars I have no desire because you can't get an extension cord long enough to be able to drive a decent distance because I want to be able to get in my car and drive a minimum of 400 preferably 500 miles before I stop for fuel.
And on her car I could do that quite readily plus it was a fairly good-sized car it was a 2002 Chrysler Concorde with a full size passenger compartment in it. I had a Dodge minivan that as long as I kept the fuel mixed where it was approximately 90 octane it got 20 1/2 Mi per gallon in town and I got 31 1/2 Mi a gallon on the freeway and it was a minivan. And I could drive 530 Mi before I had to stop for fuel, sometimes a bit further. I wanted to get one of the overseas models of the same minivan with a diesel engine that is now being used in Chevrolet pickup trucks. They would get 50 Mi per gallon and still produce 300 ft lb of torque.
And a diesel engine runs on almost 20 parts of air to one part fuel or better. It is impossible for it to pollute more than a gasoline engine when you figure it by distance traveled.

.................In this age of man, it's co-operate or annihilate............

Carney do the right thing.
I will buy BYD for sure, save money and buy from EV leader in the world.

I lived in Thailand during COVID. I have seen these cars. Even the Chinese ICE cars. These are not cheap crap. The build and quality put North American car companies to shame. Personally, even without the Chinese cars coming here, I will never buy another Ford, GMC, or Stellantis product again. Every one I have owned over the last 15 years has been a piece of crap. And looking at the numbers, car manufacturing in Canada for the American companies is a losing battle. Ever since NAFTA, it has been dying. I think Carnery did the right thing. I hope that China starts to build cars here.

Both were right!

battery minerals, but not the refining tech... but Canada could copy Indonesia and use export restrictions to locate refining locally?

Chinese cars are so far ahead of those produced in the US that it is little wonder that they have the execs at Ford and GM lying awake at night.