The loss of manufacturing has left a hard scrabble service economy in many parts of North America.
It will require stiff tariffs on goods imported from the low wage/low standard countries to repatriate  manufacturing  and the all important spin-offs associated with it. 
The Trudeau Government is currently negotiating a free trade arrangement with China.  E-Mail your
MP telling him/her to put a stop to this because the only thing China wants from us is access to our resource wealth so they can feed their manufacturing plants.