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    1. WesternBlueRanger on

      I suspect that so much of Justin Trudeau’s legacy is going to be dismantled in the next few years. It’s clear that Carney intends to chart his own path, and not just continue the policies of his predecessor.

    2. Everyone except the environmental radical extremists (especially Guilbeault) knew these EV mandates was nonsense before, and its still nonsense now.

      In the end, ongoing improvements in the technology, and market forces will determine the level of EV penetration, and consumers‘ willingness to buy them. Which is how its supposed to work.

    3. If Canada and the USA get rid of these mandates too much, they’ll be ceding the market to China and we’re going to lose all those jobs anyway. It’s inevitable.

      Without any pressure on our own auto makers they will not compete in EVs and they will be swiftly overtaken.

      It’ll be like the Cold War where the west was laughing at the Russians driving terrible Ladas, but this time it’ll be everyone outside of NA driving high quality Chinese EVs and laughing at our crummy stuff.

      Only way to avoid this is to keep the fire on our NA auto makers.

    4. Former-Physics-1831 on

      I am willing to accept a certain amount of backtracking on environmental policy to protect the bigger picture, but at a certain point I’ll stop seeing the difference between Carney and Poillievre and begin to wonder what the point in voting LPC again would be

    5. If they remove the EV mandate, then the Chinese EV tariffs must also fall. Let’s let market forces truly decide. (We can also remove the EV rebate/subside too)

    6. So Carney has basically adopted every flank of the CPC economic platform, from austerity to ending pro-environmental mandates to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a former O&G exec who will do nothing. This is all before we get to the backtracking on ‚Elbows Up‘, gung-ho funding for the American military-industrial complex, and Gregor „Prices can’t go down“ Robertson as Housing Minister.

      If you had laid out to people that we’d just be getting all this but at least headed up by a guy willing to go to Pride, do you think the NDP would still be at 7 seats?

    7. I’m so glad we didn’t for the Poilievre Conservatives.

      I much prefer Liberal acquiescence to Trump, big tech, environmental regulations cuts, and broad austerity.

    8. UnderWatered on

      World oil demand is going to be detonated by the exponential growth¹ of renewable power, especially in the Global South. As well, cheap, long-range, and high-quality EVs from China are going to rapidly overtake the global market; this will be driven by demand in fast-growing countries in South East Asia and South America.²

      This market shift will crowd out demand and production of internal combustion engine vehicles.

      Now backwards-looking countries like the US and Canada will need to make a decision: massive subsidies and protectionist policy firewalls to protect shrinking legacy industries and workforces, like internal combustion engine vehicle production, forcing public costs and poor auto products on residents.

      Or get with the times, shift focus to the fuels of the future, EVs, either maintaining ZEV mandates or opening our borders to Chinese EVs, while promoting charging infrastructure and purchase rebates.

      1 – https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by-source?stackMode=relative&time=2000..latest

      2 – https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62705480/ford-ceo-jim-farley-praises-xiaomi-su7-chinese-electric-car/

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