canada has given the world some truly
great things
the telephone poutine one of the coolest
youtube channels just name a few
and also the dodge challenger hellcat
demon
[Applause]
that's right some of the most iconic
american muscle cars are actually
canadian but canada itself doesn't have
its own major car brand what's up with
that
it's a bit weird to me that a nation
that's so clearly capable of producing a
vehicle for the mass market
has no mass-market vehicle of its own so
why exactly doesn't canada make their
own cars
we're going to take a look at why that
is and how a secret deal may have sealed
the fate
of the canadian car's extinction welcome
to the great white north day
thanks again to ray khan for sponsoring
this episode of wheelhouse
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that was weird
canadian car brands came into fruition
in what's known as the brass era of the
late teens and early 1920s when cars and
trucks had all the hinges
handles and headlamps finished in brass
trim
canada had managed to cultivate 11 major
automotive manufacturing marks including
brooks grey dort mclaughlin chatham
red path and several others that's right
red path as in zach red path he's
sitting right there off camera
canadian auto companies were primarily
based out of ontario
due to its close proximity to detroit
home of
ford chrysler and gm aka the big three
by 1923 canada was the second largest
automaker in the world
however the industry as a whole
struggled with inefficiency
canada also had high tariffs on all
trades
to the us when the great depression hit
it crippled the independent auto
industry
by 1931 75 percent of all
canadian car companies went belly up can
i get an f in chat
this was the first nail in the coffin
for canada's native car
industry but the big three stayed in
canada because they were already using
canadian factories to build
american models this also gave them
access to british nations as well
because
canada was part of the british empire
this relationship remained largely
unchanged for the next
several decades with american cars being
produced in canada
and mostly being shipped back to the us
for sale because of the lack of car
sales in canada
this caused a large deficit with the us
like
785 million bucks basically
canada was paying more money to send
cars to the us
than they were making by selling cars
made in canada
to canadians but more money was only
part of why canada was having
more problems in 1964 canada and the u.s
got together to address the money issues
that had developed
what resulted was something called the
automotive products trade agreement of
1964 better known as the auto pact
before the auto pact post world war ii
prosperity had jump-started car sales
all over north america but canadian
manufacturing plants
couldn't keep up with demand this
resulted in less business between the us
and canada which was bad
for canadian makers and dealers solving
this problem was the founding idea
of the auto pack the officially stated
goals of auto pact were to cut
production costs reduce prices on cars
for canadians
reduce the trade deficit and create a
broader automotive market
this pact specifically said that there
would be a minimum production to sales
ratio of one to one
meaning that for every vehicle sold in
canada a vehicle must be produced
in canada since there were basically
only big american car brands that still
existed in canada when the auto pact was
created the cars getting produced for
the american market and the cars being
sold to the canadian market
were basically all us models but the
ones sold to canadians were modified for
the canadian market
resulting in some interesting canada
spec models
based on american cars canada got
canada canada canada
you say it you say it one too many times
and it starts to like lose its meaning
canada got rides like the acadian conso
acadian was a
canadian sub brand of gm and got sold
through pontiac dealers
and it was kind of a beast using the
chassis from the chevy 2 platform and
styling cues from pontiac
the acadian console was a bit of a parts
been special but it worked it kind of
looks like a lightweight gto
the top trim level came with a 396 cubic
inch v8 and a four on the floor
transmission sounds awesome
and in 2012 one of these things sold at
auction for 73
700 not bad for a cut and shut car
chrysler did the same sort of thing with
their dodge trucks
to get their workhorses to the canadian
market a sub brand called fargo came
into play oh you betcha
yeah ford followed suit with their f
series line of trucks rebranding the
vehicle
as a mercury and ford sold mercury
badged f-series trucks to canadians
simply replacing the f with an m and
calling it a day
ford did this again with their falcon
derived
frontal neck front and neck i'm i'm just
going to say it which was basically a
ford falcon with a boatload of maple
leaves plastered all over it
in an all-new grill heck even the
hubcaps had maple leaves pressed
straight into them it's awesome in the
first six years of the auto pack
canada eliminated the entire deficit
with the u.s auto industry
the pact was proving its worth and
helping to create a more robust and
lively automotive market in canada
it actually worked nice between 1966 and
1977 the money-centric relationship
between canada and the u.s ping-ponged
its favor back and forth and eventually
grew to a u.s surplus of just over
a billion dollars this also perpetuated
the auto industry to become
the number one export industry in all of
canada
employing over a hundred thousand people
across the country
this engrained the big three into the
automotive industry
in canada this didn't have any direct
benefits for creating a high volume
canadian car brand but the benefits
helped so many other aspects of canadian
life like
the workforce technology advancements
and a booming economy
but in many ways this was yet another
nail
in the canadian automaker coffin however
other nations took notice of the auto
pact
and started their own relationships with
the canadian workforce
foreign manufacturers glomming onto the
booming canadian automotive
manufacturing industry
wanted to get in on that sweet tim
hortons wayne gretzky coffee which if
you didn't know
is a coffee with nine sugars and nine
creamers because gretzky's number
is 99. it's also known as a cup of pure
energy we should harness it
to power our grid through the 70s honda
isuzu and toyota gained presence in
canada they weren't part of the auto
pack but this didn't stop these japanese
companies from taking up more than
16 percent of the market in canada and
the united states on their own by the
mid-80s
canada made a separate agreement with
these japanese companies in the form of
something called a duty remission
incentive which essentially
removes any taxes on products that were
imported into the country
the side effect of this was very
interesting and
kind of weird because japanese
automotive manufacturers
set up shop in canada canada was able to
tie them into the duty-free exports to
the united states
so long as those japanese cars were
canada made pretty clever
because canada wasn't technically
violating any of the stipulations of the
auto pact it was allowed to continue
with their middleman status
and keep a steady flow of foreign cars
built in the great white north and then
sold to the us
with looming renegotiations the us had
two
objectives on their mind one eliminating
duty remissions into canada
and adopting free trade between nations
prior to these upcoming negotiations the
pact was great for the canadian
workforce and economy but it was driving
nail after nail into the independent
canadian auto industry
which had pretty much become
non-existent in terms of market share
in 1989 the free trade agreement came
into effect which got rid of any tax
costs between canada and the us for
all cars and car parts while still
maintaining that one-to-one production
to sales ratio
but because of the now frictionless
movement of product between two nations
you know frictionless it largely
benefited us-based companies because of
them being so much larger
and having better technology than
essentially any company that had a
presence
in the entire continent this new free
trade agreement later got incorporated
into nafta which overruled
any preferential treatment that the auto
pact had put in place
the auto pack was cancelled in 2001 but
it didn't matter because trade minimums
were already
well above the one-to-one minimum u.s
and japanese companies had effectively
swallowed up the entire independent
canadian automotive market
and canada had become the go-to
manufacturer
for a large portion of the big threes
catalogs as well as for honda and toyota
but that's not to say there wasn't any
hope for canada to make a mainstream
product in the car world though
even though canada largely caters to the
big boys in the automotive realm there
are still some smaller and very unique
and i think pretty cool canadian car
companies
provost is a canadian tour bus and
motorhome company and the machines they
make
are impressive to say the least they're
literally some of the largest vehicles
allowed on the road there's the h345 vip
which is
45 feet long with 500 horsepower making
1750 foot-pounds of torque it's a big
boy another cool canadian car company is
the campania corporation and their t-rex
three-wheeled car i remember seeing this
thing on like ride with funk master flex
back in the day
their track ready model called the rr is
powered by a straight four kawasaki
motor making 200 horsepower
and a 6-speed sequential gearbox and the
thing only weighs 998 pounds
this thing's a beast another crazy car
brand out of canada
is called conquest vehicles and they
make something called the night
xv or knight 15. i'm gonna say xv
because it sounds more intimidating
it's an insane bulletproof uber
luxurious
suv that's built to customer spec off of
the ford f550 platform
just look at this thing the ford
excursion is bruce banner the knight xv
is the hulk
my personal favorite car that's
currently being produced in canada is
made by a supercar company called
felino their cb7 and cd7r supercars are
powered by a 6.2 liter
ls v8 nice the cb7r
is the race spec variant and it can
produce 700 horsepower
the company was started by canadian race
champion antoine
bessette in 2010 and they've been
building bespoke track day machines for
clients since 2017. this thing
looks awesome it looks like something
out of science fiction but don't forget
though we also have the canadians to
thank for some of our favorite cars
literally
every single dodge challenger and
charger is produced in ontario
think about that the dodge demon an 840
horsepower
all-american drag strip monster is
canadian
with that considered i really wish it
came with a flannel seat option
canada also makes the toyota corolla and
the honda civic
as well as the toyota rav4 we can also
thank the amazing canadian designers and
engineers that built the all-new ford gt
this is like america's mascot it's ford
distilled into a supercar
and it's canadian ultimately canada
forsake its own independent automotive
industry
for the ability to provide a more robust
and fruitful workforce for the people
that live
and work in canada and in a way that's
the most canadian thing i've ever heard
of
what's your favorite thing from canada
jim carrey's canadian
avril lavigne is canadian jb yeah who
could forget
the biebs canadian i'm actually a
quarter canadian my grandmother was from
edmonton alberta go oilers
so i can say canuck be kind
see you next time love you canada