New York Times' Canadian correspondent Ian Austen visits Windsor, Canada’s car capital, and finds lots of anxiety about tariffs, writing:
President Trump’s tariff war against Canada has unleashed widespread anxiety in Windsor, Ontario, the country’s auto-making capital. Much of it has focused on the fate of large vehicle assembly plants.
But the concern is just as high, if not higher, throughout the roughly 100 smaller auto-parts plants in Windsor and the surrounding county that employ some 9,000 workers. By comparison, about 5,400 people work in the three auto factories in Windsor.
Many parts makers are small businesses without the financial cushion that auto giants can rely on to soften the blow from the 25 percent tariffs Mr. Trump applied to imported autos and some auto parts.
When asked what their city would be without auto-parts makers, union officials Pauline Ridley and Colleen Barrette respond, “A ghost town.”
