Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s deal with China on electric vehicles has hurt Ontarians and the two have not spoken since.
Ford says he was disappointed Carney did not give him a heads-up about a potential deal before the prime minister’s trip to China last week.
Carney struck a deal with China last week to allow up to 49,000 electric vehicles to receive a vastly reduced tariff rate of 6.1 per cent as they come into Canada in exchange for dropping tariffs on Canadian canola and some seafood.
Ford and Carney became fast friends after the latter’s win to become prime minister in the spring.
Ford is making no sense. He ripped out the chargers, he ended the incentives on EVs. EV sales in Canada are down to 8%.
No one is going to give up their brodozer to buy a Jiangling Panda, people will eat window caulk before giving up their F150s.
Secondly, these Chinese EVs are being drop shipped. Let them come and let the idiots find out the hard way they are disposable and cannot be fixed. I will be amazed if anyone takes a Chinese EV seriously in 5 years, but if by some miracle the cars last, then they deserve the EV market Detroit refuses to build to, despite free money from Doug and Justin.
The canola industry in ON makes $3B/yr, you’re welcome.
What are you on about, mate? These are proven vehicles being sold and used all over the world… Except Canada because the Canadian government would rather support obsolete technology for the sake of keeping jobs in the country instead of driving and supporting the next, necessary, leap in automotive tech.