if canada wants to maintain it's industrial base, it should focus on building vehicles that people want, which are smaller vehicles with high fuel efficiency that cost less to fill up and are better for the environment, or electric vehicles connected to a clean electric grid. many canadians, myself included, want to forget about owning a vehicle altogether and focus on clean public transit instead, or already do that.
the only market for these dinosaur vehicles is the rapidly declining american south. reasonable americans don't want to buy these shit vehicles, these backwards gas guzzlers, these anachronisms from a bygone era, either. unfortunately, the american car industry will not produce modern vehicles because it's interlocked with the fossil fuel industry.
if canada retools these factories to build modern vehicles, the americans will be banging down our door to buy them, because the american companies won't build them.
if america will not evolve or adjust, we need to separate our industry from them and move forward. but, we should also ensure we invite the northern states of michigan, of washington, of minnesota, of illinois, of vermont, of new york, of massachusetts to join us in looking towards the future instead of trying to bring back the past.
our own governments should have already banned production of these deeply damaging vehicles and, in truth, was grappling with how to do it. these dirty trucks have no future in canada. a time was quickly approaching where they would be made in the united states, for a backwards american market, or not made at all.
canada should nationalize the factory and retool it to produce modern vehicles, by either starting a domestic company, which canada should have and bizarrely does not, or by selling the assets to modern companies from east asia or germany.
they can't move the factory. if the company was headquartered in canada, this would be less likely to happen.
canada should take advantage of these changes to make needed and overdue changes about how we use carbon in this country, not moan and complain about them.