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   > Trump sees thousands of jobs building cars in Canada that he can bring   
   > back to the USA to give you those jobs, but anylists were talking   
   > about that tonight on the news and said that what that would do is   
   > cripple American car makers because you can't suddenly throw together   
   > a car building plant. They said it would cost many $Billions and take   
   > years for that to be completed, and then you could pretty much bet   
   > that almost all Canadians would never buy an American car again,   
   > and we would very quickly be able to retool existing plants here to   
   > start making more Asian cars here which would also compete with   
   > your car makers at some level unless tariffs were left on forever.   
      
   Political analysts said Trump wanted this second term to "build his   
   legacy."  It really sounds like any chance of that legacy being positive   
   will be very short term... possibly less than the next four years... and that   
   it will eventually turn out to be a negative one.   
      
   Someone mentioned in another echo that they thought all the posturing about   
   tarrifs was to get other countries to lower/eliminate existing tarrifs that   
   they have on existing goods.  In the cases of Canada and Mexico, I was not   
   aware of any serious tarrifs existing before he started this.  China might   
   be a different matter, though.   
      
   > MP>I would not have any qualms about buying an "American" car built in   
   anada.   
   >   > For that matter, I'd not have any qualms about buying a Canadian one but,   
   >   >to my knowledge, there have been no Canadian specific makes/models since   
   >   >the last years of Studebaker production.  ;)   
      
   > No, it doesn't look like there are any truly Canadian car companies.   
   > I think one or two were trying to start up over the years but never   
   > went anywhere.   
      
   If they still made Studebakers, I would be considering one right about   
   now.  ;)   
      
   Mike   
      
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