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Poilievre takes his tariff-free auto pact pitch to Detroit

The Conservative leader says the plan could lift Canadian output by 500,000 to 800,000 vehicles over 10 years.

The Detroit skyline, seen from Windsor, Ont.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre crossed from Windsor to Detroit on Tuesday to promote a tariff-free auto pact, meeting the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and visiting a General Motors plant in Detroit and Ford's Rouge plant in Dearborn, CBC News reports.

Under his plan, each automaker's duty-free access would be tied to how much it builds in each country. He says that would raise Canadian production to about two million vehicles a year from 1.2 million.

The plan also includes keeping a 75 per cent North American content rule, banning vehicles with Chinese- or Russian-connected software and removing the GST from Canadian-made vehicles.

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