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.
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Here’s how stupid modern Canadian politics has become.
We live in a country where the loudest people scream “eat the rich” cheer when Teslas get vandalized, foam at the mouth over billionaires, rail against corporations, blame the elites for everything, and posture endlessly about justice, equity and the little guy.
And then they turn around and vote for a Davos banker.
Not a welder. Not a builder. Not a farmer. Not a small business owner. Not even some old school liberal who still vaguely pretends to care about the working class. No, they handed the country to a global finance creature who parachuted into Canadian politics from the stratosphere, grabbed the wheel, and started pulling levers on behalf of the exact class of people liberals claim to hate.
That’s the joke. That’s the scam.
The same people who want to burn symbols of wealth voted for a man who practically is a symbol of transnational wealth. A banker. A globalist. A man marinated in elite institutions. A man whose instincts, loyalties and ...
