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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Sure, but the 100% tariff thing seems pretty counter productive to Canada's zero emission strategy. The Canadian government wants more adoption of EV, but one of the big barriers to entry remains cost. Should they not let less expensive options in as part of that adoption strategy and to also spur more competition with the other car brands? It's not like Canada has any auto brands that need protecting.
If the goal is to continue to have Ontario's auto plants function, then pursuing zero emissions seems counter productive the other way, especially with the US setting their line in the sand to go against anything remotely benefitting the environment. Plus, it's not like they are helping us out with all these tariffs.
Why not open the option to drop those tariffs and see if we can make a deal with Chinese EV companies to have factories here to replace some of the other car manufacturing factories?
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Zero emmission passenger vehicles are one of the least financially efficient ways to reduce emissions. It's a feel good thing, but pretty low impact. Personal vehicles sit idle 95% of the time. Buy a small efficient gas vehicle or hybrid if it means that much. Subsidizing these for the wealthy is even dumber. It would make way more sense to subsidize businesses who's dirty diesels drive all day long in urban environments, if governments cared about reductions and not feels.