BACKGROUND: Nissan Canada is a division of Nissan, a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. The company produces vehicles under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo. Since 1999, Nissan has been part of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance, a partnership between Nissan of Japan, Mitsubishi Motors of Japan and Renault of France. In 2014 Nissan was the largest car manufacturer in North…