Sweeping Carney announcement could include EV mandate review
Sweeping Carney announcement could include EV mandate review
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Sweeping Carney announcement could include EV mandate review
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We need proportional representation and ranked choice and we need it yesterday. It is our only way to prevent becoming the US.
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You can have both of those combined with the single transferable vote.
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Sure am glad everyone “strategically” voted for the Liberals! We got what we deserved: A stupid government for a stupid people. The half that went straight for goddamn Pierre Poilievre prove further that we really don’t have a damn clue.
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It’s enough for both parties to vote together to screw everyone over.
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The new Buy Canada plan sounds like we're selling her.
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Not even a year into this session “elbows down, we don’t want to take a penalty this late into the game”
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Through…domestic economic interventions and more Canadian businesses? How is that selling?
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I get it. I mean it is bad visuals.
\ SELL CANADA
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Didn't this dude write a long-ass book where his whole thing was like, we need firm and predictable government policy so that markets can do their supposed magic?
Looks like even that utterly weaksauce approach to the climate crisis is entirely negotiable, if short-term profits for his Brookfield buddies are ever even slightly at risk.
This guy is pathetic. An invertebrate. Disappointment doesn't even scratch the surface.
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The problem is that the EV policy had little consideration of how EVs work in cold climates. They created a policy that was based on science fiction on some mythical technology to appear by 2030. The periodic table is not going to change, batteries are not going to get significantly better in the next decade, because they aren't better in labs right now. You can't even charge in typical temperatures in Northern Canada. Canadian government has a long history of avoiding qualified STEM input. Trudeau was just another CEO hanging off every word from Elon Musk.
Hybrids can cut fuel use by 60% with 1997 technology, housing codes should have had solar panels and heat pumps a decade ago. Electric or hybrid trains should be moving cargo across Southern Ontario, like we did 75 years ago, not oil burning trucks.
Where electrification makes sense is being done to save money. If we have cheap, clean electricity, burning things will be bad business.
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So my lived experience here is battery charging is 100% fine in most of Canada's cities, which are, as we know, clustered near the border, as south as we can get. I've seen EVs in the Yukon too though, and no one seemed to be complaining about them to me there when I asked.
I also think you're not at all informed on the state of the art with regards to battery tech, there's tons of research going into it, and several very promising technologies on the horizon.
No offense but you remind me of the pundits confidently declaring that the future of physics is to be found in decimal places a scant few years before the discovery of X-Rays.
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EVs have good enough range for Canadians, this is bullshit excuses
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Bro Canada isn't the coldest country and there's plenty of countries colder than us with absolutely no issues with EVs fuck off with that bullshit line.
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He will make us lose to a mini trump next election
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He's proving to be rather indistinguishable from mini-Trump 🤷
At least his voice isn't like nails on a chalk board.
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The NDP is having their leadership race. If they get someone like Charlie Angus (ideally he gets convinced himself) and come out swinging HARD, we might have a shot at keeping our country.
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Pathetic invertebrate disappointment seems a biiiit strongly worded given the other people on the global stage
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no, hes bending over backwards to appease private interests while handing canadian citizens data, without warrant, over to authorities, and the american government/ corporations, including the likes of palantir. subverting our constitutional right to privacy, and weakening us to american influence.
hes a kind face, and a piece of shit surveillance state corpo. nothing more. fuck the cons, fuck pp, and fuck the libs, and fuck carney.
they moved the overton window to the right, destroyed the NDP, and still handed us over to american influence and global corporations, while pretending we are still "elbows up" while making concession after concession. and also they stepped all over indigenous land rights with bill C5, recognized the colonizer farce that is the ontario metis federation (they literally allow people with zero ancestry to have citizenship so they get more federal funding and political sway, another way for them to funnel tax payer money to private interests under the guise of metis funding)
the cons and libs are two sides of the same corporate coin.
fuck em both. they are both oil loving, land hoarding, psychopathic parties leading us to climate collapse for short term profit.
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The EV rollback isn't that surprising, especially with the 'spin' on increasing Canada's competitiveness. All the car manufacturing companies in Ontario are US owned, and they want to maintain market rule-parity with the US so that they're more 'competitive' in the US market. It's a move to appease the USA, even as the govt tries to pitch itself as moving away from US reliance.
The buy Canada stuff is a sham -- we've had a full year of our politicians making that sort of noise, while shrugging their shoulders and buying in to US monopolies/control. Ontario tears up a Starlink contract ("oooh! Go Doug!"), and like the same week we hear that Rogers is parterning with Starlink, thus providing a nice Canadian face for anyone that wants to buy the US company's service. Our govt is totally in Microsoft's cloud, and completely incapable of moving away from it, and have increased their reliance since all the trade stuff started falling apart.
Idk, not a very optimistic announcement overall from my pov.