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.
You mean all those USian jobs that are leaving south of the border rapidly? Fuck US car companies. Why tf doesn’t Dougie support an actual affordable, basic daily driver Canadian EV company if he wants stable Ontario jobs
They don’t have time for that, all levels of government are still too busy trying to sabotage Edison Motors with regulatory roadblocks whenever possible. They don’t have enough time to also sabotage NEW EV companies, they can only do so much at one time.
Why tf doesn’t Dougie support an actual affordable, basic daily driver Canadian EV company if he wants stable Ontario jobs
There are no Canadian car companies. The last one ended in 1976 after 24 months.
Bombardier: we’re no longer Canadian, but we’ll make you a car if you pay us enough!
Oh, Doug Ford. Not the Ford Motor Company, which is the Ford I would’ve thought more likely to complain about having a competitor that’s actually capable of selling EVs at reasonable prices.
The main problem is that 49000 is much too small a number given the rate at which Canadians are buying cars.
The main problem is that 49000 is much too small a number given the rate at which Canadians are buying cars.
CDNs bought 1.9M cars in 2025. 20% were pickups. EV sales are about 8%. This is why Carney agreed to this, it won’t make any real difference and we get back $5B in canola sales to China, and yet the Skippy supporters have sand in their vaginas about this deal.
I didn’t buy an EV in 2025 because they’re too expensive for what you get.
Then again, I also didn’t buy a pickup in 2025 because they’re too expensive for what I need.
Cheap commuter EV? As long as it’s cheaply repairable, I’m in. I don’t expect that to be the case, sadly.
Irl it’s sand in their foreskin … but I digress.
My gawd … Druggie whines like a spoiled child. I wish he’d just stfu already.
He needs to feign opposition for his creamy buddies in Kenora.
Great job CBC providing context in the title: “says he still hasn’t spoken to Carney” !
I, for one, can’t wait to have access actually affordable electric cars. BTW, it’s pronounced Biyadi in China. A might fancier then three letter acronym I think.
BYD is an acronym for “build your dreams”.
Enjoy your vehicle built by slave labor and underpriced to make you dependent on China.
Canada could import affordable cars sold in Europe, but all anyone cares about anymore is saving a dollar.
AFAICT, the BYD factory in Zhengzhou is mostly automated. I mean, the Chinese government is awful, and I can’t afford to buy a vehicle anyway, but simply having another option other than expensive luxury electric car or support the american fascist oligarch is a good thing for Canadians. It’s still a choice between a turd sandwich and a piece of shit tho, at least BYD should be cheaper and has less risk than supporting a guy that’s actively undermining American democracy.
I know there are cheap electric cars from renault and dacia (also renault), and idk why they’re not sold in Canada. Maybe they don’t have the capacity to serve the Canadian market. I’m sure they’d blow BYD out of the water if they did, considering how car centered our infrastructure is and what I perceive as a thirst for cheap electric cars *and general support for increasing relations with Europe.
Anyway, their cars are made in Morocco, so I’m not sure if the workers there are treated any better than ones in China, or the states for that matter.
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.
