European design, built in Canada?

At the head of Renault Canada Limited were: - Between 1981 and 1987, Maurice Fertey: Vice President and General Manager of Automobiles Renault Canada Limited in Montreal (Quebec), President and General Manager of American Motors (Canada) (1981-85), Assistant to the President and General Manager of American Motors Corporation (USA) (1985-87),
- From 1986, Maurice Fertey was replaced by Ronald R Hogue as President and General Manager of American Motors (Canada)

1986: nothing new since the introduction of the Alliance in 1983, apart from the gradual withdrawal of certain AMC and Renault models; American Motors Corporation and its Canadian subsidiary appeared determined to take the bull by the horns and recover.
Within 15 months, AMC would introduce four new models, three of them of its own manufacture.
Thus, the Jeep YJ "Wrangler" had arrived a few months earlier, replacing the well-known CJ, and a completely new compact car, the Medallion, would be launched in spring 1987. It would be followed by an Alpine imported from France, a performance car intended to compete with Corvette and Porsche (which ultimately never arrived), and in July 1987 the all-new Premier, produced at the new assembly plants in Bramalea, Brampton, Ontario — a mid-size (by U.S. standards) model capable of competing with the new Ford Taurus/Sable or the Oldsmobile Cutlass.

In an interview with SOLEIL magazine, Ronald R Hogue, the new president of Renault Canada, stated regarding American Motors’ financial situation: "We lost $90 million last year, we expect to lose $70 million this year. We will not make a profit next year, but we expect to start making profits again in 1988"...

What remained of Renault operations — namely the abandoned Saint-Bruno plant which somewhat acted as a "parallel headquarters" for Renault in Canada — was transferred to the actual headquarters in Brampton, in the suburbs of Toronto [This new plant, the most modern in America, was nearing completion in '87. It was expected to produce the new "Premier" starting in 1988], and the metropolitan parts depot then employed only about twenty people. Incidentally, it had become impossible for at least six months to find French-speaking spokespersons or managers in Saint-Bruno; the few employees who agreed to speak to the press did so confidentially, demoralized by the closure of Saint-Bruno and the indecision between Paris and Detroit.

So ultimately, the answer is no: no Alliance or Encore was ever manufactured in Canada.