[Directly because of trump] Canada is bringing train manufacturing home, abandoning the United States.
In 2018, VIA Rail ordered new trains from Siemens Canada. Those trains were built and assembled in Sacramento, California. American workers got the jobs. That era is over.
Canada has awarded Alstom a C$4.7 billion contract for 313 new passenger rail cars. Design and engineering will happen in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec. Car bodies will be built in La Pocatière, Québec. Final assembly will take place in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Prime Minister Mark Carney made the shift unmistakable. "Cars that used to be built in the United States will be built right here in Thunder Bay, at Alstom, by the best workers in the world."
Canadian officials say it will support nearly 700 jobs and generate more than $1.6 billion in economic benefits.
Donald Trump spent years promising that tariffs and protectionism would drag manufacturing back to American soil. Instead, Canada just used the same logic to pull a manufacturing contract away from the United States entirely.
Sacramento built the last generation of Canadian trains. Ontario will build the next one.
The jobs, the supply chains, and the economic benefits are moving north.
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[Directly because of trump] Canada is bringing train manufacturing home, abandoning the United States.
In 2018, VIA Rail ordered new trains from Siemens Canada. Those trains were built and assembled in Sacramento, California. American workers got the jobs. That era is over.
Canada has awarded Alstom a C$4.7 billion contract for 313 new passenger rail cars. Design and engineering will happen in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec. Car bodies will be built in La Pocatière, Québec. Final assembly will take place in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Prime Minister Mark Carney made the shift unmistakable. "Cars that used to be built in the United States will be built right here in Thunder Bay, at Alstom, by the best workers in the world."
Canadian officials say it will support nearly 700 jobs and generate more than $1.6 billion in economic benefits.
Donald Trump spent years promising that tariffs and protectionism would drag manufacturing back to American soil. Instead, Canada just used the same logic to pull a manufacturing contract away from the United States entirely.
Sacramento built the last generation of Canadian trains. Ontario will build the next one.
The jobs, the supply chains, and the economic benefits are moving north.
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