Charlie Angus
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And what it means is that we're gonna have to pivot away.
And Donald Trump's been demanding that we pivot away.
He says, they don't wanna be part of, they don't, he was just, I think in Dearborn, he says, we don't wanna have any Canadian cars, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Our auto sector is so integrated with Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky.
We are part of this
ecosystem of trade well i think what carney's saying is that that's gone so if trump pulls out the auto market on us we have to shift and we have to pivot and moving to with the chinese i was really interested that carney says the long term this is about further investments which i think is we're going to start to see chinese plants being built in canada so cars are built here
It will also mean a huge shift for the kind of cars that are made in Canada.
And we have an enormous advantage over the United States because we have all the critical minerals necessary for the batteries and to create EV.
The potential for Canada is enormous.
There will be political risks.
He's going to need to deal with the auto sector towns who are obviously very uncertain.
He's going to have to make an offer to Doug Ford, our premier, who's going to be shouting and hollering about this.
But he's also now started to build alliances where the Western premiers who normally are going mega maple are going to be a lot more wary about speaking up against the prime minister who's delivered such a substantive deal on canola.
eve of the renegotiations of the KUSMA agreement, which is the North American Free Trade Agreement, where 90-some percent of the trade between the United States and Canada is under tariff-free agreements.
And Donald
Trump has been saying again and again.
We don't need this.
We don't like this.
We're going to rip it up.
Pete Hook's just saying that.