Canada Embraces Asia to Save Auto Heartland Squeezed by Tariffs

As the weeks passed after General Motors Co. shut down the assembly line where he had been working, reality began to set in for Mike Horne.

Sitting in a union office set up to connect laid‑off workers with training and employment resources, Horne, in his early 50s, was coming to terms with the idea that his job might never come back at the plant known as CAMI, about two hours from Detroit in the town of Ingersoll, Ontario.

The factory once churned out hundreds of Chevrolet Equinox SUVs every day. For locals, getting a job there felt a bit like winning the lottery. But ...