On Monday, Toyota said it will build a new US$3.6B plant in San Antonio, Texas, and move some production of its Tacoma pickup truck out of its Mexico plant over a four-year period.
Are we in the ‘find out’ stage of NAFTA/CUSMA agreement now - especially now it’s in its sunset stage? Sure starting to look like it. Canada’s own failing to increase inter-provincial trade, international trade, and encourage domestic expansion is coming back to bite. Decades of selling out Canadian companies to the US, mergers of domestic companies, and privatisation of crown corps (funny how we don’t even own our own rail) is going to make the transition all bite extra hard.
Are we in the ‘find out’ stage of NAFTA/CUSMA agreement now - especially now it’s in its sunset stage? Sure starting to look like it. Canada’s own failing to increase inter-provincial trade, international trade, and encourage domestic expansion is coming back to bite. Decades of selling out Canadian companies to the US, mergers of domestic companies, and privatisation of crown corps (funny how we don’t even own our own rail) is going to make the transition all bite extra hard.