Canada to introduce Chinese EV tariff

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7 pointsgrecy8 comments

If you can't compete, just cripple the opposition I guess.

Canada has a significant automotive sector but it's basically all foreign automakers. So this is about protecting local jobs and 'encouraging' Chinese manufacturers to, one day, follow their Japanese and American counterparts and open plants in Canada.

Right, and "protecting jobs" is more important than allowing companies and products to compete on their own merits.

As a consumer, I am now punished because the foreign owned companies that choose to assemble vehicles in Canada can't do it as well as Chinese companies. Make it make sense.

Well, you want companies and products to compete on their own merits (are subsidies their "own merit", though?) but you also want your industry not to be obliterated... So, as always, it is a balancing act.

> your industry

These are clearly not Canadian companies being protected.

The factories and jobs are local, which makes it "your industry".

I fundamentally disagree

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