🚨 JUST IN – CANADA PM MARK CARNEY: As a result of Trump's tariffs, an auto plant in Windsor, Ontario is closing for at least 2 weeks.pic.twitter.com/GON7n9TbWM
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Fear and anxiety are running high in Windsor, Ontario, after carmaker Stellantis announced it will temporarily shutdown its assembly plant in the Canadian border city next week as a result of US President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs.
Derek Gungle, who is among the 4,500 people employed at the plant, says the temporary pause in operations was “kind of expected”.
Still, he tells the BBC he worries about what’s to come.
It is a feeling that is echoed across Windsor, the heart of Canada’s auto sector and just a bridge away from the US state of Michigan. For decades, the two regions worked together across the shared US-Canada border to build some of North America’s most popular cars, like the Ford F-150.