The more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.
Why Are We Trading Our Breadbasket for a Battery Pack?
In protecting a shaky electric vehicle dream, Ottawa is putting a $43-billion canola reality at risk — sacrificing a cornerstone of our agricultural economy for a battery pack that may never deliver. […]
The backdrop to all of this is Ottawa’s high-stakes bet on the EV sector. Despite nearly $50 billion in combined federal and provincial investments, Canada’s EV industry is faltering. Sales are dropping, mandates are clashing with market realities, and major projects are delayed or shelved. Without a significant acceleration in charging infrastructure, policy recalibration, and restored investor confidence, the sector risks collapse.
Ottawa’s trade stance is effectively protecting a fragile EV industry at the expense of a robust and profitable canola sector. One is speculative and policy-driven; the other is market-proven and globally competitive. The policy choice here should be obvious: Canada must either adjust its EV tariff position toward China or carve out exemptions to protect agricultural exports. Beijing has made its expectations clear.
Related: Built in 1960, the Second Narrows Bridge was not designed for the volume and weight of modern freight trains, which have grown substantially in size and frequency to meet rising global demand.
” mandates are clashing with market realities”
What is it with Liberals and reality, anyway? The Democrats down south seem to have the same difficulty with it.
Professor Charlevois makes a strong argument here. To answer his question, Carney doesn’t give a s**t about Saskatchewan and Manitoba — they two provinces are fly-over country for this guy. He’s a high-techie and an environmentalist oligarch. He doesn’t care about farmers.
The Jacobins and Bolsheviks want to make mandated EVs so expensive that only party apparatchiks can afford them thereby achieving their long held goal of getting the serfs off the road and as a bonus, western farmers off the land. Either that or this is the most economically illiterate regime on the planet. The LPC/NDP/CCP love central planned industrial policy while the CPC aren’t quite as aggressive but insist on a diluted “me too” policy in everything to appear “centrist”.
Why? Because people reward their friends and punish their enemies. This seems pretty simple to me, the real question is, “What should be done about this?”
#wexit
politics 101. how many votes in saskatchewan? how many votes in golden triangle?
what is it the obsession with EVs? do LIEberals have some sort of mass OCD?
Anyone thinking that the LPC isn’t paying China to tariff western Canada canola?
Communists only have two tools
A hammer and a sickle.
Every problem is a nail to be pounded or a living plant to be cut.
Then there was the Second Narrows highway bridge that fell in 1958. Yes I know, it’s not the same bridge, just close proximity.
There was a song from my youth that I remember being a lot better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipzQr0k9zA
There was also a much later Stompin Tom Connors song which sucked like everything else he did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8swvCGH3B4
The Lieberals only need Ottawa, Southern Ontario, Québec and the Maritimes to form governments. They just don’t give a damn about what’s out West. Any “aid” program, if one is ever created (i.e. Wheat Board, etc.), is just a means to plunder or put under foot.
So wexit makes perfect sense, then, if they don’t need us.
There’s no business case for the west to remain in canada!!
Exactly.
Premier Moe’s response from 2 days ago.
https://x.com/SaskLass/status/1955491467377643761
The canola industry is more financially important to Canada than the aluminum, steel, and auto industries combined. The difference in response is clearly because central Canada is home to the vast majority of these imputs (exempting the Kitimat aluminum works @ about 20% of total national output)
If canola was a Quebec crop, this situation would be very different.
Aluminum $10 Billion. 10k jobs
Steel. $15 Billion, 20k jobs + 200k supporting jobs
Auto. $16.5 Billion, 130k jobs
Canola $43 Billion, 200k jobs
“The canola industry generates more than $40 billion annually and employs 200,000 people”
“Saskatchewan’s premier says that’s bigger than the steel, aluminum and auto industry combined.”
Moe “I would say that they deserve the same attention by our federal government and our prime minister as we are seeing in other industries.”
All to protect a non-existent Canadian EV industry and curry favour with the US”
https://x.com/cbcwatcher/status/1955636937768812969
The Liberals are running on Corruption and Hopium.
This won’t end well.
Our country is caught in this endless Delusion of Lieberal Propaganda, going on well over 10 years now. The Canola/EV conundrum is but one of the perceptions.
With Trump cutting off the EV Delusions, surely to the applause of automakers (behind closed doors), Canada is left as an outlier. Textbook example of everything else in the “trade war”.
Canada ignores reality at its own peril.
We are not going to buy EVs. Period. Ever.
The pointy heads at LIEberal Inc. seem to believe they can outlast Bad OrAnGeMaN 4 years, and look like winners, economic damage in the time being, be damned.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m cheering on the Financial Collapse of Canadastan before that. The collapse has to be devastating to wake the sheeple up from their delusions.
The LIEberal Party is an agent of the CCP, despite the Canola dispute. LIEberals don’t care about Western Farmers. Ever. They know how they vote, and that’s everything to a corrupt LIEberal.
HARDER! FASTER!
Here’s what I don’t understand about your Canadian NET ZERO brain trust? If they are so committed to EV’s and an electric NET ZERO future for every living Canadian … then why don’t they embrace cheap, plentiful, Communist Chinese EV’s that EVERYCanadian can afford? Canada has been addicted to Cheap Chinese steel … so why not become addicted to cheap ChiCom EV’s?
Wouldn’t it be “greener” for Canada to offshore the nasty business of building toxic ultra flammable batteries and EV’s?
I don’t speak for the #Libranos, or anyone in gov’t.
My guess is that it is much easier to control people, and the movement of them, with EV
As well as kneecapping the energy based economy of the western provinces as they attempted to do from 1979-1985
Control.
The entire green agenda is a front for this.
The auto industry, based in Ont/Que. is largely supportive of the #Libranos, it’s vote rich, and if they need to keep the Chinese competition at bay, so be it.
I can’t see a future for EV in the western provinces. There’s not too many of them being driven when it’s the typical December January February temps here.
I think you know this already, it’s not like this is new, but felt compelled to say something.
I highly value your opinion, and always enjoy hearing from you.
Why Kenji?
Myopic LIEberal politics, that’s why.
It’s NOT about what’s good for the country, it’s about what’s good for the LIEberals. Period.
And, that’s their voting base in Morontariowe and lower Queeebec, where the auto industry resides.
If they don’t continue ALL IN for EVs, it will look like they abandoned the auto industry. Of course, they also have the choice to relax emission standards which would also save the industry.
But, GLOWBULL WARMING, we’re all gonna DIE!!!
So, the EV grifting continues.
This won’t end well. We”re so screwed by an inept, corrupt, incompetent government and country.
When will Carney apply his Carbon Import Tax on Chinese imports because they aren’t constrained by any sort of Greenhouse Gas rules?
Well blubber douggie and tutdo la doo pissed away billions of our taxdollars on EV battery plants. So, if they let chicomm EVs onto the country all bd and tld’s friends would lose the chance of screwing us when we are forced to buy EVs with those batteries. Hence the tariffs on chicomm EVs; and hence the EV mandates with no opposition from blubber douggie.
Funny how the press isn’t on to this angle, eh?
Too bad ‘You People’ out west don’t have the votes to separate.
Its only going to get worse.
Canada is Asshole.
More commentary from the Food Professor ..
“Ottawa is propping up a fragile illusion centered on EVs, all while undermining Canada’s standing as a global agri-food powerhouse — and let’s be clear, Canada was the instigator with China, not the other way around. It’s economic folly.”
https://x.com/FoodProfessor/status/1956157145847660942