Yesterday, Trudeau dined with Trump in his lair in Florida, and deputy prime minister Freeland tried to deny that Liberals are attempting to throw Mexico under the bus. : canadapolitics

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Why did you feel the need to editorialise the headline so much? I know it's not a requirement on this sub, but that's usually so posters can provide better context

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

It feels like OP based the post title off something other than the video they shared...

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

There's a lot of noise on TikTok about Canada and Mexico feuding about statements said by Ford and Sheinbaum.

[+] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.ca -12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why did Canada impose a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs a few months ago?

Australia didn't.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Canada is attempting to grow its own domestic EV supply chain in order to become the world leader in EV battery production. It is already out competing China thanks to it's large natural resource supply and developed mining and refining industries.

The general idea is that Canada doesn't want to be China's supplier of raw materials and helping them become the world's supplier of EV batteries when Canada could be that supplier.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Canada doesn't want to be China's supplier of raw materials and helping them become the world's supplier of EV batteries when Canada could be that supplier.

A shame we don't do that with any of our other resources.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's never too late to pick up a good habit.

Realistically, our terrible productivity and China's lax environmental/safety standards seem like they're gonna doom this effort, but I'm all for trying.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Instead of tariffs, why not simply ban Chinese products that aren't up to standards?

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

That's my kind of globalization.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How hard is it to make batteries?

Why would they be so uncompetitive compared to the Chinese ones?

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

How hard is it to make batteries?

Why are you asking Lemmy instead of google? Or even a genAI chatbot?

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 month ago

Canadian car companies had years, arguably decades, to try EVs.

Do you think a 100% tariff won't disincentivize competitiveness?

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