Campbell Clark: Poilievre arrives late to auto debate with plan from 1965

Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: Mr. Poilievre proposed to revive the one-to-one rule of the 1965 auto pact, which essentially presses automakers to make as many cars in Canada as they import into Canada tariff-free.

That idea isn’t completely crazy – it’s just that it has already been batted around a lot in trade circles over the last year, and indeed a similar idea has been taken up by the Liberal government. But it isn’t going to force a reversal from the person who has disrupted Canada-U.S. auto trade, U.S. President Donald Trump…

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