October 4, 2024
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The elephant in the room with Chrystia Freeland isn’t the Chinese boogeyman — the only Chinese EVs currently sold in Canada are produced by Texas-based Tesla Inc. — but the fact that the serfs she’s spent so much money trying to coerce seem unwilling to buy into her government’s vision of an electric future.

Freeland’s war on Chinese EVs shows hypocrisy of Liberal climate agenda

We have an opportunity to reduce the cost of EVs without taxpayer money and the government’s response is to threaten trade restrictions

The Liberal government’s declaration of war against Chinese electric vehicles shows that saving the environment has taken a back seat to industrial policy.

On Monday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland held a highly anticipated press conference at an auto parts plant in Vaughan, Ont., where she made the case that China is engaging in an “intentional, sate-directed policy of” flooding the market with inexpensive EVs that is harming domestic producers, and promised “clear, strong, decisive action” to counter China’s “unfair competition.”

Rather than impose a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese EVs — as U.S. President Joe Biden did last month and many expected Freeland to do this week — the finance minister announced … a 30-day consultation on “potential policy responses.” If that isn’t an example of clear, strong and decisive action, I don’t know what is.

The government’s list of potential policy options include imposing a surtax on Chinese electric vehicles, excluding them from the $5,000 EV rebates and broader investment restrictions. In other words, we’re going to try to out-commie the actual Communists by placing ever-greater limitations on Canadian trade and investment.

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