'A stab in the back' - car workers in Canada hit out at US over tariffs

The car industry in Windsor, Ontario, has employed generations of Canadians but now the future is uncertain.

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Kathryn Lawton and husband Chad both work for the carmaker in Windsor, the heart of Canada's automobile sector, just a bridge away from the US state of Michigan.

Her children are "fifth generation Ford workers", she says.

So when US President Donald Trump suggested that Canada stole the American auto industry, Chad Lawton calls it "ludicrous".

"These were never American jobs. These were Canadian jobs," he told the BBC, on the day that Trump's auto tariffs came into force.

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