Carney reaches ‘landmark’ tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola
www.ctvnews.ca
The Liberal government has reached a deal with Beijing to slash tariffs on a set number of Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for China dropping duties on agriculture products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.

Canada is dropping the EV tariffs and will be importing 50k Chinese EVs per year. Carney quoted as saying by 2030 an EV in Canada will cost $35k which is a sure shot more affordable than buying the latest $80000 Child Obliterator

  • ryepunk [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    The libs are already maybe-later-kiddo trying to lib-splain how this is bad because the automotive industry will die because of china. And also they’re clutching pearls so hard about how getting in bed with evil Xi will bear so harshly on our national conscience. Deeply afraid of authoritarian china, but curiously they can never explain how it was okay we were allied with the biggest evil for a century.

    • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      15 hours ago

      I mean it is unalloyed bad news for Canadian autoworkers, but since Canada’s industrial policy with respect to autoworkers is already a failure that pays out foreign shareholders more than workers, it’s hard not to see the silver lining of cheaper, better, non-nazi manufactured EVs in Canada.