Canada–United States Automotive Products Agreement
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Oct 4, 2026
speaker_10AUDIENCE
And those... widgets and gadgets that we do sell them, I would argue, have been sold to them under an agreement which allows them, through part of their military-industrial complex, to control our far north and to test their weapons, such as the cruise missile.
Pat CarneyGUEST
Well, I think it's interesting that this caller is calling from Ontario, where a province which has benefited from the Auto Pact, which is a trading arrangement with the U.S. You know, automobiles are one of our biggest export items, certainly our biggest merchandise export items.
Pat CarneyGUEST
And I think Canadians and other parts of the country feel that they would like to benefit from new trading agreements with the U.S. and not just Ontario.
Pat CarneyGUEST
Cross-country checkup, where are you calling from?
AaronHOST
That's true, I guess.
AaronHOST
Okay, so my backup is the considerably less exciting start of the auto pact between the US and Canada.
AaronHOST
It's funny how these things come around, right? Yeah.
AaronHOST
So yeah, that obviously spurred the Southern Ontario auto industry.
Chris KeeferHOST
So maybe this is a good chance to talk about this, because this is maybe sort of Canadian US cooperative industrial policy at its best.
Jesse HuebschGUEST
Yeah, so the, I mean, broadly the auto pact was an agreement that there'd be as many cars produced in Canada as sold in Canada, but to make the industry more efficient overall, it didn't have to be the same cars.
Jesse HuebschGUEST
So you can have a plant that specializes in F-150s and 90 percent of the product would go south of the border.
Jesse HuebschGUEST
Then we would import nine different models from south of the border so that we can have the full product slate in Canada while building roughly the same amount as would be sold here.
Rohinton MedhoraGUEST
But I'd add two points to what you said.
Rohinton MedhoraGUEST
First, on the historical bit, I'd go even further back than forty years to nineteen sixty-five and the US-Canada Auto Pact.
Rohinton MedhoraGUEST
That was that first sense on both sides that these two countries were interlinked economically and otherwise, and that was that first ginger step towards integration.
Rohinton MedhoraGUEST
In many ways, the US-Canada agreement in nineteen eighty-eight was a natural, albeit it took twenty-four years, evolution of that.
CornHOST
The cooperation was real.
CornHOST
NORAD, the Auto Pact, the free trade agreements, the integrated supply chains, but it was always conditional on American restraint.
CornHOST
When the United States stopped showing restraint, the cooperation frays.
CornHOST
The question
Meg RobertsHOST
Yeah.
MikeHOST
Are, are you surprised there's not more yelling at the top of, from, uh, the top of their lungs from the automotive industry right now, Jeff, uh, with, uh, with how, how in- integrated the supply chain is between our three countries in, in the old NAFTA deal, or are you going back to the Auto Pact-
Jeff ReitmerGUEST
Mm-hmm
MikeHOST
... or whatever it was.
Augusta ChapmanUNKNOWN
You released a video recently about Canada's retaliation against President Trump's tariffs.
Augusta ChapmanUNKNOWN
Uh, you talked about the whole US-Canadian trade war, including the nineteen sixty-five Auto Pact, NAFTA, the fentanyl tariffs, and then the surprise fifty percent tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods.
Augusta ChapmanUNKNOWN
And ultimately, you concluded that although this is a small hit economically for Canada right now, this is extremely important because of what it means for the American-Canadian relationship in the long term.
Augusta ChapmanUNKNOWN
Today, I have several follow-up questions about this trade war that come from our audience.
Sarah MacDonaldHOST
But Eisenhower supported the joint construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the joint military command of NORAD.
Sarah MacDonaldHOST
Lyndon Johnson signed the Auto Pact, Ronald Reagan the Free Trade Agreement, and George H.W. Bush NAFTA, and always because successive presidents valued a trusted partner.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
To all of Canada- I salute you because we will always be friends, always
Eric SorensenCORRESPONDENT
That's what has made the last two years so jarring.
Jim CsekHOST
The data, the long-term data.
Jim CsekHOST
The auto industry got bailed out in 1965 because Lyndon Johnson was convinced by Lester Pearson to sign the Auto Pact, which was very nice and gentle and good of the Americans.
Jim CsekHOST
I say that seriously, because the auto industry was very small and failing.
Jim CsekHOST
And then it, it morphed eventually.
Evan BrayHOST
In your article, there's one paragraph where you start off saying, for Canada and the U.S., this was a period of deepening integration.
Evan BrayHOST
And then you go on to list NORAD in 57, the 65 auto pact, the 72 Great Lakes water quality agreement, 88 Canada-U.S. free trade.
Evan BrayHOST
You list a number of these agreements that we made with the United States Do you think that that has led to this over-reliance on the states? Were those positive for us, or is that part of what we're feeling right now as the pinch?
Greg PoelzerGUEST
Well, they were positive at the time, and had that trajectory in the United States about international cooperation and a rules-based international order been heavily dominant.
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