Dear Donald: Canada’s struggling auto industry is not a threat

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Open this photo in gallery: New trucks crowd a parking lot at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., on Sept. 24, 2019.Chris Helgren/Reuters Greig Mordue is an associate professor and the ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Advanced Manufacturing Policy in the faculty of engineering at McMaster University. Donald Trump is inherently transactional: the U.S. President sees others’ victories as failures of his own, views another country’s trade surplus as exploitation of his country, and believes that vehicles made abroad are lost opportunities for America. So, when he sees a country like Canada celebrating its successes in terms of automotive investment...