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Detroit — The Detroit Three maintain Canada remains the most expensive place in the world to build their cars and trucks despite the concessions that were wrested from the Canadian Auto Workers in their round of labour talks in the fall.

This has raised some concerns that the cost of doing business in Canada will continue to see automakers move assembly work out of Canada to lower-cost areas, including in the United States and Mexico.

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There’s no mistake that Canada continues to be the highest-cost producer for General Motors anywhere

Last month, General Motors of Canada Ltd. announced it would shift production of the Camaro from its Oshawa, Ont., plant when its current model expires, expected to be in 2015, in a move GM said was aimed at consolidating its rear-wheel-drive vehicles at the Lansing Grand River plant in Michigan. It was just the latest blow to the auto-assembly sector, which has shrunk drastically in recent years.

Kevin Williams, the president of GM Canada, told reporters Monday it would be a mistake to see the Camaro move as the inevitable decline of its Oshawa plant. But he maintained that the cost of producing vehicles in Canada required some creative thinking and help from GM’s unions if they want to win more work and replace the 100,000 units of production annually that will be lost with the Camaro move.