Eh Buddy Hoser

Help who exactly? If we're trying to maintain a multinational production framework (focussed on hydrocarbon guzzlers) that both the US government and US corporations don't seem interested in anymore then sure it's bad from that perspective.

Between US and Chinese auto manufacturing, one is clearly backward looking and the other forward. Putting all our eggs in the backward basket because the US is such an amazing, awesome friend to Canada seems like a potentially dangerous play at this point.

The amount of Chinese EVs being let in amounts to 3% of the Canadian market. We should be more interested in the potential for knowledge and tech transfer which, if cultivated, can lead to an indigineous Canadian auto industry.

Unless the US successfully annexes Canada, then yes this would backfire. But most Canadians seem keen on fighting / preventing that outcome by whatever means necessary.