R.I.P. to the Canadian Auto Industry

hamermill · Jan 27, 2026

Finally it’s about freaking time.

Doug Ford calls federal auto strategy ‘great’ and says Ontario will be part of it after meeting with Carney and Joly

Ontario Premier Doug Ford appears to have had a change of heart when it comes to the federal government’s auto strategy after hearing more about it from federal officials.

www.cp24.com

This subsidizing should have happened decades and billions of dollars ago.

Rest in peace. Hopefully Canadian taxpayers won’t be paying/ subsidizing the $100 an hour high school educated auto workers any more to fasten a bolt.

Frankfooter · Jan 27, 2026

hamermill said:
Finally it’s about freaking time.

Doug Ford calls federal auto strategy ‘great’ and says Ontario will be part of it after meeting with Carney and Joly

Ontario Premier Doug Ford appears to have had a change of heart when it comes to the federal government’s auto strategy after hearing more about it from federal officials.

www.cp24.com

This subsidizing should have happened decades and billions of dollars ago.

Rest in peace. Hopefully Canadian taxpayers won’t be paying/ subsidizing the $100 an hour high school educated auto workers any more to fasten a bolt.

You have to be a little bit shitty to be happy that good paying jobs are disappearing.
Chinese EV's kick ass, but that's more about how shitty american designed cars are now and how the oil$gas industry killed EV's in North America.
Canada is one of the few countries globally where EV sales went down.

southpaw · Jan 27, 2026

Frankfooter said:
Chinese EV's kick ass, but that's more about how shitty american designed cars are now and how the oil$gas industry killed EV's in North America.

Do you want to protect Canadian jobs, or do you want to fight climate change? I'm sure you'll say both, but thats in your make believe progressive world. In thr real world, there are tradeoffs. Like this one.

Frankfooter · Jan 27, 2026

southpaw said:
Do you want to protect Canadian jobs, or do you want to fight climate change? I'm sure you'll say both, but thats in your make believe progressive world. In thr real world, there are tradeoffs. Like this one.

The best plan would be to make deals with BYD to open a plant here for lower tariffs.
win win

fall · Jan 27, 2026

Frankfooter said:
The best plan would be to make deals with BYD to open a plant here for lower tariffs.
win win

As long as the paid wage will be the same as in China, and no unions.

jeff2 · Jan 27, 2026

wigglee · Jan 28, 2026

Robots will be fastening bolts

Frankfooter · Feb 5, 2026

Am-Can is DoFo's version of Project 2025 for Ontario.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019450458809442408

lomotil · Feb 5, 2026

An economy based on Canadian taxpayer funded foreign branch plants is precarious. Ontario was lucky that this arrangement lasted for as long as it did.
Canada needs its own factories and reliance on America or China to construct factories here is a rabbit hole.
The Canadian entrepreneurial spirit of the past in now a unicorn.

nottyboi · Feb 5, 2026

Frankfooter said:
The best plan would be to make deals with BYD to open a plant here for lower tariffs.
win win

the credit plan helps that. If BYD builds here, they accrue creits which allowed them to import a proportional number of cars tariff free That is available to any automaker.

nottyboi · Feb 5, 2026

lomotil said:
An economy based on Canadian taxpayer funded foreign branch plants is precarious. Ontario was lucky that this arrangement lasted for as long as it did.
Canada needs its own factories and reliance on America or China to construct factories here is a rabbit hole.
The Canadian entrepreneurial spirit of the past in now a unicorn.

There is the Arrow 2 project to build a Canadian EV. IMHO if they don't partner with a Chinese company they will not be able to compete.

geezerbuter · Feb 5, 2026

There was never a Canadian auto industry and never was. We just had massive government subsidies to the US to give some Canadians jobs. Now they pulled the rug out and didn't fulfill their obligations so we are in damage mode. What do you expect Carney to do ? We are already suing US automakers foe hundreds of millions. They will never get paid just like the softwood lumber scam. I have always been for diversification and really don't see the US as being much better than China at this point, plus dipshit don isn't even offering a deal at this point. What a fucking tool

JohnLarue · Feb 6, 2026

geezerbuter said:
There was never a Canadian auto industry and never was. We just had massive government subsidies to the US to give some Canadians jobs. Now they pulled the rug out and didn't fulfill their obligations so we are in damage mode. What do you expect Carney to do ? We are already suing US automakers foe hundreds of millions. They will never get paid just like the softwood lumber scam. I have always been for diversification and really don't see the US as being much better than China at this point, plus dipshit don isn't even offering a deal at this point. What a fucking tool

What do you expect Carney to do ? he should have stopped Trudeau from throwing the taxpayer money at the automakers
Carney was the idiot kings economic advisor

nottyboi · Feb 6, 2026

JohnLarue said:
What do you expect Carney to do ? he should have stopped Trudeau from throwing the taxpayer money at the automakers
Carney was the idiot kings economic advisor

Did you expect a trade war with the USA to this degree? I don't remember you saying anything. A lot of these investments were made in a CUSMA context. Now that is blown to hell you can't really expect automakers to not change their plans. BUT we should ask for the money back or put them on a payment plan based on a payback for each car they sell here.

nottyboi · Feb 6, 2026

geezerbuter said:
There was never a Canadian auto industry and never was. We just had massive government subsidies to the US to give some Canadians jobs. Now they pulled the rug out and didn't fulfill their obligations so we are in damage mode. What do you expect Carney to do ? We are already suing US automakers foe hundreds of millions. They will never get paid just like the softwood lumber scam. I have always been for diversification and really don't see the US as being much better than China at this point, plus dipshit don isn't even offering a deal at this point. What a fucking tool

Show me a car industry that is not subsidized please.

Anbarandy · Feb 6, 2026

Frankfooter said:
The best plan would be to make deals with BYD to open a plant here for lower tariffs.
win win

This is so improbable as to be an impossibility.

Mainland China already has an excess vehicle assembly plant capacity for mainland auto sales consumption in the tens of millions of vehicles. We're talking of an excess capacity of 20 plus millions vehicles a year in China looking for homes around the world.

To open and operate a plant in Canada, the Chinese manufacturers would need access not to the Canadian market, but the American market and that is just not going to happen.

Now if some idiot Canadian and/or Ontario government is going to give China land/facility/infrastructure/employees for free and build the plant for them the at-no-cost-to-the Chinese-manufacturer vehicles will still not have enough buyers in Canada.

Frankfooter · Feb 6, 2026

Anbarandy said:
This is so improbable as to be an impossibility.

Mainland China already has an excess vehicle assembly plant capacity for mainland auto sales numbering in the tens of millions of vehicles. We're talking in excess capacity of 20 plus millions vehicles a year in China looking for homes around the world.

To open and operate a plant in Canada, the Chinese manufacturers would need access not to the Canadian market, but the American market and that is just not going to happen.

Now if some idiot Canadian and/or Ontario government is going to give China land/facility/infrastructure/employees for free and build the plant for them the at-no-cost-to-the Chinese-manufacturer vehicles will still not have enough buyers in Canada.

Its not so outrageous, just make it more like the Canadian branch plants where one part is made, or batteries installed.

JohnLarue · Feb 6, 2026

nottyboi said:
Did you expect a trade war with the USA to this degree? I don't remember you saying anything. A lot of these investments were made in a CUSMA context. Now that is blown to hell you can't really expect automakers to not change their plans. BUT we should ask for the money back or put them on a payment plan based on a payback for each car they sell here.

no
just do not hand out tax payer money for corporate welfare to begin with
that way we do not need sue or wait on some brain dead, never going to work instalment plan to repay taxpayer money that never should have been extracted from the taxpayer in the first place.

the auto makers screwed Canadian taxpayers because the damn fool liberals think governance is just a matter of spending ever increasing sums of other peoples money.

to make matters worse they are borrowing unsustainably so we pay interest on money that will never be recovered

this way beyond stupid

but you will continue to support the destructive liberals no matter how much damage they do

nottyboi · Feb 6, 2026

JohnLarue said:
no
just do not hand out tax payer money for corporate welfare to begin with
that way we do not need sue or wait on some brain dead, never going to work instalment plan to repay taxpayer money that never should have been extracted from the taxpayer in the first place.

the auto makers screwed Canadian taxpayers because the damn fool liberals think governance is just a matter of spending ever increasing sums of other peoples money.

to make matters worse they are borrowing unsustainably so we pay interest on money that will never be recovered

this way beyond stupid

but you will continue to support the destructive liberals no matter how much damage they do

Didn't you accept corporate welfare during Covid. Every nation does it, so we either do it or opt out. Show me one nation that does not subsidize auto makers and has a significant auto sector.

richaceg · Feb 6, 2026

Frankfooter said:
Its not so outrageous, just make it more like the Canadian branch plants where one part is made, or batteries installed.

what you're really saying is you hate the US so much you're willing to bend your ass over for Xi...than make deals with Trump. Geographically...US would still be the better partner than China. whether you like it or not.

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