Canada
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Businesses up north are happy to be courted by state governments.
The brass at Martinrea International Inc. ran the numbers, and they added up to a no-brainer. The new technical center would be built across the border in Michigan, not in its home province of Ontario.
For a company with manufacturing and engineering facilities in eight countries, it wasn’t necessarily surprising that Canada’s third-largest auto-parts supplier would make such a decision. But the reasoning was harsh.