A driver backs a Volkswagen e-Golf into a parking spot in Peterborough, Ont. Volkswagen has announced plans to build an electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, in southwestern Ontario.
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For the kind of money the federal and Ontario governments probably spent for a Volkswagen EV battery plant in southwestern Ontario, Canada might have been able to launch its own EV maker.
The shift away from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is not a normal retooling of auto plants, but a full-scale recreation of the auto sector that will reshape the modern economy. Will Canada’s auto sector be left in the wilderness?
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A look back at how Canada secured auto investment in the past shows how a peripheral economy gained a major auto sector — and how it might hold onto it even in the face of U.S. protectionism on EVs.
More milk from these Wisconsin dairy cows may find its way to Canada under the new trade deal.
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Canada, the US and Mexico have signed a deal to rip up the 25-year-old NAFTA and replace it with something new. But what’s actually changed?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland arrive to hold a news conference on the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) in Ottawa on Oct. 1, 2018.
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Who are the winners and losers in the new USMCA? It’s complicated, but one thing’s for certain: Canada should never again allow itself to be overly dependent upon one trading partner.
President Donald Trump makes a comment at the White House in March 2018, when he signed proclamations on steel and aluminum imports. Watching as Trump leaves are, from left, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
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Donald Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ may be all about talking tough, bluffing and bullying, but as any poker player knows, there comes a time to call a bluff. If there ever was such a time, this is it.
Under threat? A tough call for PSA.
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Current clean diesel technology is more than capable of meeting tough air quality rules while still delivering excellent fuel performance. Biofuels could make it even cleaner.
Changing our thinking about car design.
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When Ferdinand Piech took on Martin Winterkorn, the VW Boardroom looked once again like the scene of a family drama… and it was left to the kids on the factory floor to settle things.