In Canada’s auto city, definitions have already caused the operation

Outside the city hall in Windsor, Ontario, it was clear on Friday morning that no American thing was boycotted at least. Detroit Tigerz’s fans gathered at a bus station to cross the river to take the opening match of the team.

After the opening day celebrations, it was a special week of bad news for Windsor, my hometown.

President Trump has recently announced a set of global customs tariffs on Wednesday, including a 25 percent new tariff for cars collected outside the United States. Its effect on Windsor was unexpectedly immediately. Hours before the entry of a rolling tariff, Stelantis, the auto industry company that is the largest employer in the city, UNifor, the union whose workers represent, told that about 3,600 union members will be demobilized for two weeks while the company sorts the tariff strategy.

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While executive officials and car analysts warned for several months that the definitions that Mr. Trump threatened would lead to the closure of the plant, they also believed that this would not happen for weeks.

The contract between UNifor and Stelantis will reduce the immediate financial impact of closure on the workers of the Union Association. But most workers in auto parts factories in Canada and the United States, which are also likely to close or demobilize employees, have no same income protection guarantees.

Stelantis and other companies that make passenger vehicles in Canada – Toyota, Honda, General Motors and Ford many. For Canada and Mexico, the United States partners in the free trade agreement signed by Mr. Trump in his first term, definitions will be reduced by the amount of American content in each car, so the car manufacturers may be rethinks where they get some parts. Parts of the car imported from Canada will face a similarly reduced tariff next month, once US officials discover a way to measure their American content; The task is more complicated for parts compared to the final cars.

Windsor, the capital of the auto industry in Canada, can now face its greatest crisis since 2008, when Chrysler Canada, as well as known at the time, was known, federal and local assistance Avoid financial collapse And complete closure.

To learn about the new challenges, I met the mayor of Windsor, Drew Delkins, in the city hall for a follow -up interview. when We talked two months agoHe said that the biggest problem at that time was the uncertainty surrounding Mr. Trump’s commercial intentions.

Our conversation to the space has been intensified and liberated for clarity.

What happens in Stelantis?

Stelantis says, let’s see how the stock looks and let him adapt for two weeks. Let’s do mathematics and discover what will now cost us to make the car. What do we have to sell it, and will people buy it?

What do you expect the consequences to be short -term?

The demand for vehicles will decrease because the prices will rise. This means that you will need fewer people to build fewer vehicles. You will have this sequence of layoffs throughout the auto industry in the sector, which will not be an enjoyable experience.

Does that mean the gradual end of the assembly and making parts in Canada?

I am still optimistic that with the existence of the exchange rate difference between the United States and Canada – and given the number of parts companies here – it is not practical to think that the United States can restore all of this. I think the greatest risk is that getting parts of China will become more attractive, even with the currently in place.

Is there anything that any politician in Canada would do to end the US definitions in the short term?

We are in a difficult place, no doubt about it. I don’t think we want to be in this place again.

This indicates Canada’s risks of relying on the United States as a commercial partner. However, I think the United States will always be our largest commercial partner by proximity and purchasing power.

But this decision made by the president will get people looking at other markets and think about how to better reduce this risk.

Election 2025

Trump’s tariff again dominated the election campaign this week. While Mark Carney pledged to establish a government owned by a government Housing Development Agency at reasonable pricesPierre Pollyfer, Conservative Leader, A. A tax break for investors Those who returned their gains to Canadian investments, and Jagmeet Singh suggested to the new Democrats to revive “Victory Bonds” To enhance the economy during the trade battle in the United States.

• Chris Donovan, a photographer from St. John, New Bronzwick, was invented Connny photo article From his city and the comprehensive influence on the Irfing family it carries.

• Dr. Joan Liu, a doctor in Montreal and professor in McGil, was supposed to deliver a long -standing letter in New York at New York University Langon Health, a hospital affiliated with the University of Alma, New York University. But after her arrival in the United States, Dr. Liu, former international president of the doctors, was told without limits Its presentation has been canceled Because it can be considered anti -Semitism and opposes the United States government.

• In the opinion, the author Stacy Chef noticed that Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, like Trump, tried to do so Convincing the Canadians to join the United States – And that these efforts throughout history were “every blessing and romance, Bibi Le Bio, on the Benellop Bescat trail.”

• Also in opinion, the Leipur generation, Harvard historian, explores ideas Grandfather Elon Musk, Joshua Haldman, “Cow’s shepherds, bone essay, conspiracy theory and amateur pilot.” Before he left Canada to South Africa, Mr. Haldman was a pioneer in Canada for a political movement known as technocratic.

• Tamara Lech and Chris Barber, two of the main organizers in the siege for four weeks, which were injured in the center of Ottawa in 2022, I am convicted on Thursday After an unusually long trial.

• Watch a fan “Canada is not for sale” A hat to the Toronto Blue Gaiz game and threw it. Vanessa Friedman, head of Times fashion, writes that such hats are part of a A phenomenon around the world.

• A tape sitting dust in Vancouver’s record store for a decade Recording of the Beatles test 1962 For Decca records, a session significantly ended with the rejection of the band.

• Peter S is written. Goodman for a Family owned business in Ottawa This makes the full shoulder relax and how it was arrested in the trade war.

Ian Austin Reports on Canada for times based in Ottawa. It covers politics, culture and the people of Canada and has been informed in the country two decades ago. It can be reached in [email protected]. More about Ian Austin

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