▲ 74 ▼ Canada is getting BYD folks, you love to see it (www.ctvnews.ca) submitted 8 months ago by fox@hexbear.net to c/canada@hexbear.net 31 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago (3 children) Chuds are going to be absolutely malding about this permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago I'm hoping for a seething response from the US regime, resulting in more tariffs or some other nonsense targeted at Canada. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 child) The libs are already 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago I'm hoping for a seething response from the US regime, resulting in more tariffs or some other nonsense targeted at Canada. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 child) The libs are already 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
