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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. (globalnews.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes 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

[+] [email protected] -6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

Australia didn't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 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 3 points 3 hours 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 3 points 2 hours ago

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.