Canada's Auto Industry Lacks Vision on Job Losses






There has been a lot of complaints among organized labour and other Canadians about the decision of General Motors to downsize its Canadian operations in favour of investing into the United States.  However, what's wrong or surprising about such a decision.  Did Canadians forget that GM is an American company that has to contend first and foremost with political obligations south of the border with the Obama administration?

Here's a novel solution.  Canadians currently build aeroplanes through Bombardier.  Why can't we as a country build our own cars and foster our own truly Canadian auto industry?  Organized labour in Canada could be helping to repatriate GM's infrastructure into a Canadian automobile that could very well be better than the current ones assembled by GM.  Countries from Sweden to South Korea have been building cars for years.

As Canadians, we can protect Canadian jobs by thinking of such innovative solutions rather than depending on the decisions made by trans-national enterprises like GM.  Canada has "flirted" with building our own in the failed Bricklin experiment of the mid-1970's.  Isn't it time we re-kindled that idea toward hopefully more environmentally-friendly car technology? Wikipedia elaborates that the Bricklin SV-1 was a gull-wing door sports car assembled in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The body panels were manufactured in a separate plant in Minto, New Brunswick


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