Canada

This is disinformation. They are cheap because of abundance in materials, easy/advanced factory construction, competition, and advanced leadership in robotics. It's just pure smear, not only to baselessly say slave labour exists in Xinxiang, but that it also applies to more prosperous provinces where cars are made.

Oh I'm not defending China. They're oppressive assholes who are jamming their populace into the gears of capitalism even faster than the Americans. Fuck those guys.

I just think it's a bit rich to try to make the argument that we should defend an industry that profits from building things we don't want so they can run over more kids, ruin more cities, and make a shittone of cash and then cry poor and demand a bailout.

Personally, I wouldn't buy one myself, but then again I try to avoid cheap Chinese crap as much as possible and I don't want a car. The "BuT sLaVe LaBoUr!" Argument would be great, if anyone seemed to care about that when buying phones, or solar panels, or basically anything else, but when it's invoked to defend American car companies, it's obviously not in good faith.

The entire Canadian economy would be negatively effected in the long-term by such a move.

TIL a higher standard of living is a “negative effect”.

Yeah well... I'd like to do whatever Poland is doing.