China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles, that country’s ambassador says.
  • Quilotoa@lemmy.caEnglish
    50·
    14 hours ago

    Seems like a no-brainer. Canada doesn’t have an EV production to speak of. I believe it was originally done to support the U.S. EV industry, but do we really need to be doing that?

    • Bunbury@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      It might have been the only official justification. However I suspect that there’s unofficial ones, like “we are worried it’ll come with spyware that directly reports everything to China” or “if we do this we might becoming mainly dependent on Chinese cars, which then means China can pull them out from under us, maybe disable them remotely, etc”.

      Depends on how much they thought this through and how much they trust China now and in the next few decades.

      • Quilotoa@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I see your point, however, China is consistent, and it is not nearly so imperialistic as the United States. I’m not sure which one I trust less.

        • Bunbury@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Well ideally I suspect people would just want a product without the spyware.