Canada

And Canada will still have to dispose of them at the end of their working lifespan.

You don't bring foreign manufacturing here by removing the tariffs. You keep the tariff (adjusted) to incentivize local production, and if needed subsidize them building a factory here. Then adjust the tariff to make the imports more expensive than the local production.

The concern is there. Canada should let Chinese vehicles in, but should also mandate security and privacy focused specs. China should be willing to compromise to play ball in North America. There’s a path towards improved relations if both sides want it.

China is nobody's friend. They are an advanced authoritarian autocracy with significant territorial ambitions on this planet and in space. We made the mistake of relatively freely trading with them for decades, which helped destroy our manufacturing base while providing them funds to buy significant parts of our country in return, while they supported terrorist regimes like North Korea and bullied all their other neighbors in Asia. They are not friends, no matter how much they smile at us.

But the European brands are switching (some models) to Chinese platforms from their Chinese partnerships. 🥹

If we get BYD (or equivalent) factories here, we're cutting the middle man. Staffing them with union workers along with Canadian environmental and labor regulation should ensure they aren't poisonous slave shops.

As far as I read our officials had problems with the punishment, not the crimes.

They were dual-cirizens. If they're Chinese citizens and according to China's legal system they had to go, how would it look in China if they don't apply the rules because they were also Canadian citizens?

Flip it around, some Canadian citizens commit crimes that call for life in prison in Canada. Would we expect our courts to not sentence them because they also hold Chinese or some other citizenship?

I agree, making a Faustian bargain with one evil authoritarian regime because we're afraid of the prices of the evil authoritarian regime on our border is just trading one problem for another problem. Both these countries are happy to destroy our economy, destroy the environment we live in, destroy their own people, and to destroy us if they can get away with it.

EVs are going to be expensive if they are made responsibly by people who are paid fairly. Life is going to be expensive. This is the cost of living responsibly on this planet and having a future for ourselves and our children, and it is not negotiable and cannot be dodged, hidden, offset, or rejected. Deal with it. Be prepared to change your way of life. We will manage. We are tough, resilient people, and we will lead the way into a future that, while it might not be the utopian ideal we wished it to be, will perhaps at least be a future where we can continue to breathe air and not wildfire smoke.