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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Canada should allow Chinese EVs on the condition that companies build all or part of them here, or source parts from the CDN auto belt.
The EV ban only helps stupid fat american auto makers and is anti-consumer.
In countries where Chinese auto are sold, average people can buy a nice vehicle for way less than we pay for ours.
That's one way to help with the affordability crisis.
Competition is good, check this out (only so cheap because of competition):
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I would be soooooooooooooooooo leery about buying a Chinese car. With the amount of security issues identified with TVs and whatnot, or the propaganda and nonsense being jammed into Chinese AI toys for kids, the idea of Chinese cars on our roads is actually scary. Looking at the new Chinese TV brands, they send a LOT of data back home for no good reason (and that reason is likely why they are so cheap).
With a couple of clicks they could take over a car and drive it into a wall or another car or a crowd of people.
I realize that the same is true of Tesla and I would honestly advocate for kicking Tesla out of the country for security reasons.
IMO, before China should be able to send their cars here, they should build a Canadian office for their software and ensure that all of the components in their cars sold in Canada are forced to run a Canadian made version of their software that is audited by CSIS or something to eliminate potential shenanigans.