Reading the comments I don't think people understand what's involved here.

The companies are moving to the states because that's where the majority of their customers are. Which means it's not viable for them to stay in Canada and only sell to Canadian markets.

Which means nobody's going to be replacing these businesses. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs that will be lost with no replacement.

The state can't nationalize them, the workers can't take them over, they're just not viable as businesses anymore.

And all those businesses and all the people that work for those businesses pay taxes. Which means we're going to have less and less money to provide services the people who are poor etc

This isn't about giving states our money, this is about us not having any money anymore. I think people need to wake up to the reality of how serious this is

This is why I support Carney's agenda of diversifying our economy and our partners. These companies are moving to the U.S. because, currently, Canada predominantly does business with the U.S., so these U.S. companies see tariffs as an obstacle to their business.

However, when Canada has exports predominantly in the rest of the world, companies will stop moving.

They can do their worst. I didn’t buy so much as a US sweet potato from the grocery store this week. Sure as hell isn’t going to be a car or an appliance from any company moving out of Canada.

So you mean we can nationalize a bunch of factories and turn them over to worker owned and managed cooperatives?

In some ways I don't blame the companies. That is the business game. However another side of that is that when a company leaves, another company can replace it. It creates opportunity for new Canadian companies to be started. As Canadians, we need to be aware of the companies that leave, stop doing any business with them, build and support new Canadian companies and if that doesn't happen, buy from China or Europe or South America. Yes it will cost Canadian consumers more in the short term but buying from Americans enslaves us over the long term. We have to cut our ties. NAFTA wasn't a boon for Canada, it was a boon for the US. We can choose to support Canada by not buying American.

Not exposed to Tarrifs for the US, just a fascist lawless kakistocracy when rights and rules don't exist. You won't be selling to the rest of the world as counter tarrifs settle. If you are selling only to the US, move. If you have such a poor opinion of a rules based civilization, I don't want you here anyways. We will be busy enough making things for ourselves and our allies.

get ready for vehicle quality to go down. american plants pretty much always make the worst parts.

hell, I'm aware of one situation right now where an OEM is knowingly assembling something incorrectly because the product design is shit. instead of fixing it, they're just making the parts pass the inspection, while most definitely not making good parts.

Are we in the 'find out' stage of NAFTA/CUSMA agreement now - especially now it's in its sunset stage? Sure starting to look like it. Canada's own failing to increase inter-provincial trade, international trade, and encourage domestic expansion is coming back to bite. Decades of selling out Canadian companies to the US, mergers of domestic companies, and privatisation of crown corps (funny how we don't even own our own rail) is going to make the transition all bite extra hard.

Does this mean tariffs worked

If they move the machines to the US, wouldn't they get ta tariff-ed?