Is it a bump in a long, automotive road or the future of the industry here?

Plant closings in Ingersoll and Brampton, which cost more than 4,000 Ontario workers their jobs, stunned the auto industry recently and laid bare the vulnerability of the province’s manufacturing sector to trade and tariff pressures from the United States.

The Canadian auto sector is used to tough times, with a storied past where recessions and market fluctuations cost jobs and investments, only to bounce back usually.

Is this much of the same or has something changed?

“We don’t know yet. We will not know what the future holds for auto in Canada until the USMCA is figured out,” Greg Layson, digital and mobile editor at Automotive News Canada, said of the free trade agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexic

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