Trump’s Trade War Looms Over a Canadian Town Built to Supply America
Arvida, Quebec, is part of a cross-border ecosystem responsible for the metal in three out of four American cars.
If ever a town embodied U.S.-Canadian symbiosis, it’s Arvida, Quebec.
Built by Americans, its giant smelter supplied most of the Allied forces’ aluminum in World War II and today makes metal used in Budweiser beer cans, Tesla and Ford cars and in AR15 rifles, part of the 2.5 million metric tons that Canada sends over the border each year.