The Star’s business columnist David Olive made a persuasive case that Ottawa should step in and buy GM Canada (at a fair, negotiated price), and use its facilities—including assembly plants, engineering labs and cold-weather testing centre—to create the first Canadian-owned automaker. As Olive observed, we know a lot about building cars in Ontario. We were making motorized vehicles here for about half a century before Honda began its transition from making bicycles to cars.