Trump’s Team Targets Canada’s Auto Manufacturing
Attacking the US and 'elbows up' really pays off doesn't it?
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick didn’t mince words this week. Speaking at the Eurasia Group’s U.S.–Canada Summit, he made clear that Washington’s trade agenda under President Trump has one simple priority: America first, Canada second. According to multiple attendees, Lutnick’s tone was unusually “aggressive,” signalling that the White House intends to pull vehicle assembly and production back onto U.S. soil—even if that means shattering the decades-old economic framework that underpins Canada’s auto industry.
But the deeper story isn’t about Trump’s aggression. It’s about Canada’s weakness. After a decade of governing by virtue rather than strategy, Ottawa has no leverage left. Successive governments prioritized moral signalling over industrial policy—chasing green targets, expanding bureaucracy, and taxing productivity—while the country’s economic foundation quietly eroded.
Anyone follow Melanie from Saskatchewan…..??
Credit goes to Melanie In Saskatchewan
Dear America,
To President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the Americans sitting across the negotiating table from our government:
I'm writing this from Canada with a request I never thought I would make of another country.
Please help us.
Not our government. Us. The Canadian people. Please help us understand what is happening to our own country.
Our relationship with the United States is deteriorating. Our economy is hurting. Canadian and American families are worried about jobs, businesses, mortgages and the country we're going to hand our children. Yet through one of the most consequential trade disputes of our lifetime, ordinary Canadians are being left in the dark about what is actually happening.
We hear statements and vague explanations from our government. What we don't get to see or hear is what actually happened at the table.
Increasingly, Canadians are learning more about ...
