62 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Spying Sparky Cars”

    3. Then chicomm EVs will be a status symbol among the elbows up fools.

      Good! They’ll be easy to spot then.

  2. Not a problem as those ChiCom EV’s will only take their owners from home to the closest Tim Horton’s and back … for another 24hr recharge.

    2. That reminds of a CBC headline from a couple years back based on an interview with some gal:

      “I love my EV but I didn’t realize my life would revolve around recharging it.”

      1. Exactly. And your ability to transport yourself from Point A to Point B is entirely dependent on the reliability of an increasingly unreliable power grid.

        1. I can’t imagine how someone with and EV would think he could take a relatively carefree drive from Vancouver to Calgary say, especially in winter.

          Which I’ve done by the way with a bitch and her two pups in an old beater in subzero temperatures, and at night.

          1. I should have added that the thing about an ICE car is that if you’re confident it’s reliable you think it’s no big deal doing a trip like I mentioned above.

      2. ““I love my EV but I didn’t realize my life would revolve around recharging it.””

        I remember reading that one.

        In Richmond BC there is a Walmart anchoring a shopping complex near the center of town. A parkade attached to a Marshal’s or a Bed/Bath store of some kind goes up about 3-4 stories. On the top of that parking structure are about 20 Tesla charging stations, almost all being used most of the time.

        I looked around from there and saw all the condos and apartments within view and realized why all those (mostly Chinese) people were there: because they had no chargers where they lived, and their condo boards will not allow them to be installed for safety reasons (probably the same reasons that forced these chargers to be installed right at the very top of the parkade, out in the rain).

        Every one of these Teslas had the owner sitting there in the driver’s seat, face buried in a cellphone, *waiting* for their car to charge. No thanks.

  3. China overproduces junk and then floods external markets with it.

    “In China, you can buy a heavily discounted “used” electric car that has never, in fact, been used. Chinese automakers, desperate to meet their sales targets in a bitterly competitive market, sell cars to dealerships, which register them as “sold,” even though no actual customer has bought them. Dealers, stuck with officially sold cars, then offload them as “used,” often at low prices. The practice has become so prevalent that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to stop it. Its main newspaper, The People’s Daily, complained earlier this year that this sales-inflating tactic “disrupts normal market order,” and criticized companies for their “data worship.”

    This sign of serious problems in China’s electric-vehicle industry may come as a surprise to many Americans. The Chinese electric car has become a symbol of the country’s seemingly unstoppable rise on the world stage. Many observers point to their growing popularity as evidence that China is winning the race to dominate new technologies. But in China, these electric cars represent something entirely different: the profound threats that Beijing’s meddling in markets poses to both China and the world.”

    The Atlantic, Nov 11, 2025

  4. “..we’ll need a visa to enter the US.”
    Not out of the realm of possibility. Being near the border as I am…I’m fully expecting it.

    1. It surely does make holding both passports delicious. The biggest reason i still have a foot in Canada is in case the deal is good when Canada collapses, and is absorbed by the USA. If they offer conversion at par, I want the deal.

    2. TBH … Trump is much smarter by BANNING any ChiCom automobile spy platform from entering American space. entirely.

      Whereas Biden allowed ChiCom spy flyovers … as they must have been weather balloons gathering crucial global warming data for the ChiComs.

  6. If you’re allowed in at all. The CPCC will probably mandate that every Canadian fill their trunk with Chinese criminals before heading to the US.

  7. I can’t imagine the side-eye one gets when these appear parked out front, more so in Ontario / Quebec where the Canadian auto industry was…

    Also, hey remember when Premier Ford supported “whoever wins” … like it didn’t matter?

  9. Trump administration: We’re going to kick Canada in the face just because we can, and if Canada dare take any action to mitigate that, we’re going to kick some more.

    Astonishingly, some Canadians are cheering that on.

      1. And let’s ignore the Trudeau/Carney anti- Canadian administrations that set upon and achieved the destruction of Canada from its history, to it industry, to its cultural, to it’s law and order to its national defence.
        We should all rally round the flag we’ve been told stands for colonialism and white supremacy and toxic masculinity.

        1. “The Art of the Deal”. Find what they won’t negotiate about, and make it central to the discussions. While they’re gibbering and fighting to protect that, they’ll give ground everywhere else.

          And dairy, like telecom and air travel, are a closed market so we know we’re overcharged and poorly served. It’s a textbook closed market, so why can’t it be about dairy?

          2. ““The Art of the Deal”. Find what they won’t negotiate about, and make it central to the discussions. While they’re gibbering and fighting to protect that, they’ll give ground everywhere else. ”

            Exactly. The TDS-afflicted here are too stubbornly childish to even consider reading one of the books that explain Donald Trump’s actions (and negotiating tactics) perfectly.

          3. So do you think the Americans will be dropping their massive subsidies of their famers anytime soon? No? Could it be because Canada farmers would totally kick their butts in a real free market?

    2. ” We’re going to kick Canada in the face just because we can . . .”

      You are now officially Chinese allies, maybe a Chinese satellite. Yes, we’ll be kicking you much more now. The Monroe Doctrine is alive and well.

      1. You must think that the US is a Chinese ally or satellite as well, as they also have trade agreements with them.

        1. The Chinese and the US negotiate power to power. Canada does as instructed, as only one of the countries involved matters.

    4. Yes I am cheering. In an episode of “Fear Thy Neighbour” Canada would be the one causing trouble. Then, denying it’s doing anything wrong just before causing more trouble.

    5. Wrong you are…..it is Canadians that think they are above the reality of the connections between Canada and the U.S. and just how much Canada depends on the U.S. It is the arrogance of the Liberals that is kicking Canada in the face as you will see when the USMCA collapses.

      1. Canada is fully aware of our US dependancy. That’s why we’re working so hard to reduce it. In one year, Trump managed to kill most of the trust and good will built up over the last century. This board is full of pro-American Canadians, myself included. But Trump is acting in a way that makes everyone uneasy and because of that, trust is gone.

        BTW, I still think that the 51st state comment was originally directed at Trudeau. The cockwomble got a lot less than he deserved for the way he treated Trump when he was in, and out of, office.

    6. Hey you suck a Commie shlong , and hold fast on your delusion.
      Fk Carney, and the Americans can have the Post National State.
      Gawd for someone coming off so intelligent your stuck like the average bohunk progressive ready to pick up arms to save Greenland.

    7. If you think that allowing The Mexican Cartels and The Chinese Triads to run your country along with your Communist One World PM is a great idea, then that is your business.

      The fact America shares a border with you and you help send drugs to murder Americans apparenty doesn’t bother you. Nor does driving Chinese spy cars across our border.

      Let me tell you something. It bothers us. Trump gives a damn and so do the people that voted for him. I happen to like “old” Canada before you went into the $hitter. I hope you get out of it but if you import another 5 million from Communist China and the 3rd world then I fear that the Canada I like with most of the readers here will gone forever.

  10. One of my friends’ wife works in the auto industry, and he seems to think it’s a great idea, to which I asked how is your wife’s mandarin? He had no answer to that…

    1. Exactly , doing your mom for a nickle is something Canadians have gotten really good at so good in fact it either has or is about to become part of a countries soul.

  11. I used to buy cheap Chinese power tools every time needed one because they wouldn’t work a couple years later. How much would someone want to spend on a throwaway Chinese electric car? You could spend 30 grand and prove to your neighbors that you are the stupidest person on the block.

  12. The average # of reported EV fires in China is seven (7) daily. The estimated actual number is many times higher. The Chinese province of Zhejiang has banned EV’s from regular and underground parking lots (much the way South Korea did just last year). According to the Qianjiang Evening News, at least 11 cases of spontaneous combustion were reported in electric vehicles in Hangzhou alone, from April 30 through May 4 (2025).

    Chinese manufacturing is notorious for cutting corners on safety issues while simultaneously providing documentation on paper to the contrary. Word is that their crash safety tests are even more egregiously embellished than the fire issue. They are both horrendous.

    1. oooooh lord lord lord. good to see lm not the only one with nothing but contempt and disdain for the world’s master short cut takers. lve said plenty of times with chirese products, they outdo each other cutting corners as to in some instances render the item non-functioning. the cussomer (note the spelling) is the quality control, ie cheap cheap cheap it breaks, meh, get an exchange.
      the worst example l have found, robbie screw drill bits. 15 years ago, north american made ones the tip was tempered super hard. if it popped out just jam it back in carry on. now, they get rounded because the steel is to some measure softer. and goes from bad to worse. at times, unlike decades ago, the screws fall off the bit. so they also, not a perfect match to the screw driver bit.
      so they get rounded off, useless, gotta buy more. at THAT point the ‘savings’ DISAPPEARS. you notice they come in a 10 pack now? THATS WHY.
      aka chirese crapola. and, all thats available. damn the Liberals all the way back to TURdeau 1.0.
      Canage is just the manifistaion of all the rot dealing with them. l want Carnage dead.

    2. Sounds like good negotiating leverage the next time we get into a spat with the Chinese.

  13. Chicoms don’t care about Canada other than as a back door to the US.
    Thats how it is now, that’s how it was when PET went to kiss the posterior of Mao for a photo op.

      1. I agree. How about we ship them canola oil instead of canola seed? THe husks make good feed apparently. We could sell that separately and make even more profit.

  14. I remember when they introduced Lada. It was popular for a short time and them people realised they were junk. Of course the gubmint is probably going to harshen the EV mandate and you will buy one and be happy and have a smart meter and citizenship score on your digital ID. The New World Order.

  15. C.A.G.E.

    Fully funded by the zeks who have enriched themselves, friends and family and associated businesses while purposely degrading and destroying their nation.

    1 – 20′ seacan.
    1 – monthly supply drop of food and fuel – for the space heater
    200 – square kilometers (minimum) of wilderness freedom for each zek
    1 – revolver
    1 – round of ammunition
    1 – flag for proof of life to be shown on supply drop days

    Foreign applicants welcome

  16. “those cars would not be allowed to enter the United States”

    Considering the number of people around me that won’t go to the States, that is their market so no issue. 49K vehicles will sell out in no time.

    Ottawa streets are going to be like driving through a mine field.

    1. It seems like a win-win to me.

      The most affluent leftists will buy one of these Chinese EVs, and only use it when they want to smugly project their anti-US/pro-destruction of Canada sentiment to their fellow idiots.

      We get to read about the houses of idiot leftists burning down from their EV spontaneously combusting.

  17. I confess I know little about EVs, but the thing I never see mentioned that I am somewhat curious about is, charging infrastructure. Plugging your new $25k-$35k chicom 2/4-door golf cart in at your home is one thing, but how much do their requirements differ in public? Do these golf carts adapt to existing public charging infrastructure (for stellantis/tesla/ford/gm/Japanese models)? Or do new charging stations have to be built? If new charging infrastructure needs to be constructed, is that done domestically, or do you pay Chinese companies exorbitant rates (with juicy kick-backs to local/state/federal ‘administrators’) to build them on location for you, using their own personnel rather than locals? I wouldn’t put it past them, so hopefully someone could clarify this for me.

    1. No, you have to buy a charging station. And, every evening all those commuters plugging their stupid EV into it will bring down the hydro system. I think people have wisened up to the EV scam, my fear is that the government will double-down on the EV mandate, and even subsidise the purchase of these useless vehicles, or force us to buy them.

  19. Canada has over 2.5 million cars on the road. 49K is a drop in the bucket. I expect the Chinese feel getting their foot in the door with subsidized EVs will eventually allow them to grow and dominate the market. I don’t think the plan will work as most Canadians I know are adverse to being burned alive, but it could be just the crowd I hang out with.

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