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Nothing shows true commitment to fighting climate change/global warming like blocking affordable electric vehicles and the solar panels to charge them, while giving billions to oil companies for more pipelines and sending the RCMP to terrorize land and water defenders.
The oligarchs are incinerating the planet for greed and Canada is complicit.
I think the argument is to protect Canadian jobs and the billions they've invested in EV production here. Which would totally disappear since Chinese EVs are so cheap due to the CCP direct funding to it making the market here non competitive. I just don't see the oligarch argument here.
Saskatchewan’s DUI hire is going to have a hissy fit about this he is so mad about the Chinese tariff. In fact he is so mad that he will do nothing except maybe go on vacation down in the US or party with some people in Texas.
Or he will wait for Smith to tell him what to do.
No one wants and needs 'affordable' EVs made with slavery-like labour.
I really want a BYD dolphin actually. Would be cool to re-tool all the car part factories that will be empty cause the US companies are leaving - to EVs
Do we really need Chinese EVs though? Both Kia and Hyundai, for example, make good EVs at a good price. Im not sure I would trust a Chinese made EV. Maybe thats a bias but do they meet Canadian standards?
To be sold here, they would have to meet all Canadian safety standards. This is a non-issue. Lots of vehicles sold here are, or have been built in China. The Honda Fit is a notable example. Plus, China makes many components and complex assemblies for most cars built these days, even for the high end “luxury” brands.
I have a Hyundai EV and I love it. It’s a fantastic vehicle.
But also, the Chinese EVs are extremely cheap relative to these. If they are trustworthy or safe or good is open to interpretation but they have been extremely popular in Australia for example.
My concern is that we’re antagonizing a potential trade ally to protect a domestic industry which feels to me like it cannot thrive in the medium and long-term. It relies too much on the Americans and they have been unreliable and chaotic which is bad for an integrated production system.
So we will continue with our current sugar daddy even though he beats us?
Regardless of what they are going to do, now seems like the time to publicly muse "we are reconsidering these tariffs, since the US is unreliable at the moment".
Play the same game as Trump: make stupid statements and see what falls out.
China set for rapeseed meal shortage after 100% duty on top supplier Canada
China is likely to face a supply shortage of rapeseed meal by the third quarter of this year as Beijing's tariffs on shipments from top exporter Canada disrupt trade and as alternative sources are unlikely to make up the deficit [...]
Rapeseed is an oilseed crop which is processed into oil for cooking and a variety of other products, including renewable fuels, while the remaining rapeseed meal is used as high-protein animal feed and fertilizer [...]
China relies on top grower Canada for more than 70% of its rapeseed meal imports and nearly all of the oilseed imports. Rapeseed is also known as canola [...]