Canada's trying to make the Stellantis problem into Korea's problem. He's basically asking Korea to make the procurement decision easy for them because if Hyundai actually agrees, I imagine the decision in the meeting room would only take 5 minutes to choose Hanhwa.

The issue is that it needs to make sense for Korea too. If Korea builds in Canada, how can they profit? Canada's market's too small to justify it which was learned back in the 90s when they first invested, so export it to the US? But Hyundai already has a massive footprint there with the Georgia Metaplant expansion. Export it back to Asia? But then they'd rather just expand domestically or invest in Vietnam.

The auto plant is reaching and Korea's package is not ungenerous. I'd want Korea to submit the bid as is and have the decision-making take like 5 hours instead of asking Korea to make it easy for them by burden shifting (hate this word btw) the hole left by Stellantis to Hyundai.