Outside the Windsor City Hall, Ontario, it was obvious on Friday morning that at least one American thing was not boycotted. Fans dressed in Detroit Tigers clothing gathered at the bus stop to cross the river to move to the team’s home opener.

Behind today’s opening ceremony, it was a week of particularly bad news for Windsor, my hometown.

President Trump finally announced a number of global tariffs on Wednesday, including a new 25 percent tariff on cars gathered outside the United States. His effect on Windsor was unexpectedly direct. A few hours before the tariff came into force, Stellantis, a car manufacturer who is the largest employer in the city, said the Unifor, a union representing his workers, that about 3,600 unions members will be released for two weeks, while the company is classified as its tariff strategy.

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While industry executives and auto analysts have warned for months that the tariffs that Mr. Trump threatens to lead to the closure of the plants, they also thought it would not happen for weeks.

The contract between Unifor Stellantis will alleviate the immediate financial impact of exclusion on union workers. But most car parts workers in the Canada and the United States of Canada, which are also likely to close or release employees, has no same guarantee for revenue protection.

Stellantis and other companies that make passenger vehicles in Canada – Toyota, Honda, General Motors and Ford – have a lot to consider. For Canada and Mexico, the partners of the United States under the Free Trade Agreement that Mr. Trump signed in his first term, the tariffs will be reduced by the amount of American content in each car, so that car manufacturers can reconsider where they get some of their parts. Auto parts imported from Canada will face similar reduced tariffs next month, after US officials make sense of a way to measure their American content; The task is much more complex for parts than for finished vehicles.

Windsor, the capital of the Canadian auto industry, could now face its biggest crisis since 2008, when Chrysler Canada, as Stellatis was known at the time, needed federal and provincial aid Avoid financial collapse and totally shutdown.

In order to get a sense of new challenges, at City Hall, I met Windsor Mayor, Drew Dilkens, at a further interview. When We talked two months agoHe said the biggest problem at the time was the uncertainty about Mr. Trump’s trade intentions.

Our conversation is condensed for space and arranged for clarity.

What happens in Stellantis?

Stellantis says we see what the inventory looks like and let him adapt for two weeks. Let’s make mathematics and understand what will cost us now to make a vehicle. What do we have to sell for and will people buy it?

What do you expect to be short -term consequences?

Demand for vehicles will fall because prices will increase. Which means you will need fewer people to build fewer vehicles. And you will have this cascading release throughout the auto industry in a part that will not be a pleasant experience.

Will this mean the gradual end of prefabricated plants and making parts in Canada?

I am still optimistic that with the difference of the course between the US -a Canada – the statement of the number of companies that exist here – it is not practical to think that I can bring it all back now. I think it is a higher risk that getting parts from China will become more attractive, even with a tariff rate that is now in place.

Is there anything a politician in Canada can end the US tariffs in the short term?

We are in a difficult place, there is no doubt. And I don’t think we never want to be in this place again.

This shows the risk of Canada that it relies so much on the United States as a trade partner. Still, I think now will always be our biggest commercial partner thanks to its vicinity and buying it.

But this president’s decision will have people who look at other markets and think about how they can better relieve that risk.

Election 2025

Trump’s tariffs again dominated the election campaign this week. While Mark Carney has committed to create a government -owned government Affordable Flat Development AgencyPierre Poilievre, a conservative leader, offered Investors’ tax relief who returned their gains to Canadian investments and Jagmeet Singh from new Democrats suggested a revival “Bonds to Win” in order to strengthen the economy during the trade battle in the United States.

• Chris Donovan, a photographer from Saint John, New Brunswick, created A convincing photo essay His city and a comprehensive influence on the Irving family holds it.

• Dr. Joanne Liu, a doctor in Montreal and a professor at McGill, was supposed to give a long -planned speech in New York in Nyu Langone Health, a hospital associated with her Alma Mater, University of New York. But after she arrived at the United States, Dr. Liu, a former international president of a doctor without borders, said that Her presentation was canceled because this could be understood as an anti -Semitic and contrary to the US government.

• In view, author Stacy Schiff notes that Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, like Trump, tried persuade Canadians to join the United States – And that these efforts throughout history had “all the grace and romance of Pepé Le Pew on the trail of Penelope Pussycat.”

• Also in view, Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian, explores ideas Grandpa Elona Male, Joshua Haldeman, “Cowboy, chiropractor, conspiracy theorist and an amateur aircraft.” Before leaving Canada to South Africa, Mr. Haldeman was a leader in Canada political movement known as technocracy.

• Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major organizers of a four -week blockade that paralyzed at the Ottawa 2022 center, were convicted on Thursday After an unusually long trial.

• The fan wore a “Canada is not for sale” The hat in the Toronto Blue Jays game and was thrown out for that. Vanessa Friedman, the main fashion critic of Times, writes that such caps are part of a World phenomenon.

• A ribbon sitting collecting dust at a record disk disk in Vancouver, perhaps it turned out The 1962 Beatles audition For Decca Records, a session that ended in particular by discarding the band.

• Peter S. Goodman writes oa Family job in Ottawa Because of this, he rests on the violin shoulder and how he was caught in a trade war.

Ian Austen Canada Reports for Times based in Ottawa. He covers the politics, culture and people of Canada, and has reported the country for two decades. Can be reached austen@nytimes.com. More about Ian Austen

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