Mark Carney has been claiming that we have the best trade deal in the world with the United States. Try telling that to the workers at the Stellantis plant in Brampton now facing permanent layoffs as production of the Jeep Compass moves from Ontario to Illinois.

It was just last week that Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told a Toronto business audience said that auto assembly jobs would move to the United States and Canada would need to be second.

“Car assembly is going to be in America and there is nothing Canada can do about it,” Lutnick told a business audience last week.

According to those in the closed-door session, Lutnick encouraged Canadians to seek other markets.

“You have the ability to bring tech investment and mining and other investments into Canada,” Lu

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