TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
Oct 21, 2026, 7:21 PMSo Carney's going to throw 2.5 billion at Ontario auto plants and cross his fingers hoping they ignore Trump and don't cancel contracts and pull out of Canada like Stelco ?
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Oct 21, 2026, 7:25 PM@TrueNorthSpice From my connections in the auto sector - they've largely been eating the tariffs out of their own pockets. That 2.5 billion will basically go to Trump's bottom line.
- TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.worldOct 22, 2026, 7:39 AM
@zazzoo
That might be true however the auto companies have a history of taking $$ then not following through.
They've been shutting down plants.Here's just one article only about GM and it doesn't mention Windsor.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4698563/general-motors-oshawa-timeline-canada/
- Oct 22, 2026, 12:55 PM
@TrueNorthSpice We're basically saying the same thing, in a way. Tariffs are supposed to be import taxes against consumer spending, but parts makers in Canada have been swallowing them with reduced prices, sometimes even selling at a loss along the supply chain, to avoid having consumers pay for his chaos. It's frustrating because we say around here "tariffs are a tax on consumers" but in the case of the automotive sector they work exactly as Trump crows about: Canadian exporters pay the tax.
In the case of GM, I thought Canada handled the bailout pretty well, initially. The US gave them money from its taxpayers, but we took 12% ownership. Ultimately it was Harper who messed this up. He dumped the shares in 2015 for a $3B loss and ended our ability to impose conditions. Harper wasn't interested in socialism but a smokescreen. He knew giving money to a US company would make us angry.
Additionally, when we did have a stake, Harper used the power to bust unions, basically, demanding they reduce labour costs.
- TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.worldOct 22, 2026, 1:02 PM
@zazzoo
Harper...it's always him.
Thanks ... When it's about people I really dislike I seem to have an automatic defensive mental block.Who were we discussing?
- Oct 22, 2026, 1:39 PM
@TrueNorthSpice You know, the international fascist movement guy - Orbán's buddy. 😂
- TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.worldOct 22, 2026, 1:42 PM
- Oct 22, 2026, 1:43 PM
@TrueNorthSpice It's good. It's got 'democracy' right in the name! Just like the People's Democratic Republic of Korea!
- TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.worldOct 22, 2026, 1:48 PM
@zazzoo
Ha! Yesh.
Propagands 101 ..
fool em with an innocent crowd drawing name.
I suppose
International Dictator Consortium wouldn't be quite as appealing to the average voter.