Their labor standards are a LOT higher than those in the US.
Daryl
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The computers in cars can NOT be 'bricked',updated OS or not. You need a LOT of evidence to support that claim'
You mean like Dief the Chief, under the Conservative banner, dismantled the Avro Arrow? I hear you.
Actually, IBM is doing a LOT of research into chip assembly - in its huge mega-plant in Quebec. Also employing Canadian engineering graduated from Canadian universities to do the research. American universities just can not produce the quality of graduates Waterloo can. Even at MIT, around half of the graduate students are non-American born and educated.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trump-universities-war-america-coming-brain-drain
This technology was so highly classified that any mention of it by those developing it would lead to their lifetime incarceration, stated clearly in the non-disclosure agreements they had to sign They could not even mention the theory and general technology behind it. The background tech only came to the public attention when Russia and China started commercializing it, and this forced the Americans to acknowledge it. It was a Russian ice breaker that was the first commercial vessel to use nuclear power, and even at that it was wrapped in military secrecy. But America refused to allow any development on a Western equivalent for 'military security' reasons.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/commercial-nuclear-adoption-ship
But the most effective way for America to completely prevent any development of this nuclear technology was to make it essentially impossible for any commercial outfit to get insurance on these propulsion systems, making it impossible for them to enter any port.
This is actually exactly what is happening in the US, where slave-wage states are substituting cheap labor for high-tech investment. They are opening up obsolete plants and running them on cheap labor. Provides abundant employment, but doesn't provide a good living for the worker, nor long term security.
On the other hand China is doing the reverse - their labor wage rate is escalating because it is the national priority to move all workers into the middle income group, and companies have to comply or face the wrath of the government.
In China, they invested hundreds of millions in capital into coal fired electrical production, just to provide the energy to get the economy booming. Now they are investing in nuclear and solar, and they are closing down all the coal plants they just built to improve quality of life. They have so much capital available, they can afford to do this, and their government philosophy goes along with it, not only supporting it but demanding it.
We will see which philosophy wins.
The only way Canada can compete is to change our model.
I am from Hamilton. I am well aware of what happened to Dofasco. Once a proud and mighty company, now a branch plant.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/arcelormittal-dofasco-decarbonization-update-1.7309360
ArcelorMital is NOT Dofasco. Same building, different company, different management, different decision makers. No loyalty or commitment to Hamilton. While Europe does, Canada just dithers. Now the big decisions are all made off shore. The original Dofasco, in its heyday, would have made the investment sooner. That company was a world leader.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64538296
Will we ever see headlines like the above?THAT would ensure Canada's future.
But now it allows the same top-secret ultra-classified reactors that were once limited to military craft to be used on container ships and oil tankers. Pollution-free ocean shipping.
The problem was allowing Apps to run on the smart phone and still maintain the tight security of the Blackberry. Security lost to Apps, and look where we are now?
That's not to say it could go the way of the Avro Arrow.
We were there in China in 2016, but what happened since?
Here is the most recent reference to the Chinese competition, but no mention of Canada.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/17/WS67d80547a310c240449db48a.html
What we need is an auto pact with China. A tit-fr-tat cross-border supply chain. They make cars in Canada, buy parts from the Canadian supply chain for cars they make in China. and everyone wins.