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.
This would be a bad deal for Canada the big car companies that have been producing massive, dangerous, filthy, wasteful monster trucks instead of smaller EVs thanks to protectionist policies.
Oh I’m not defending China. They’re oppressive assholes who are jamming their populace into the gears of capitalism even faster than the Americans. Fuck those guys.
I just think it’s a bit rich to try to make the argument that we should defend an industry that profits from building things we don’t want so they can run over more kids, ruin more cities, and make a shittone of cash and then cry poor and demand a bailout.
Personally, I wouldn’t buy one myself, but then again I try to avoid cheap Chinese crap as much as possible and I don’t want a car. The “BuT sLaVe LaBoUr!” Argument would be great, if anyone seemed to care about that when buying phones, or solar panels, or basically anything else, but when it’s invoked to defend American car companies, it’s obviously not in good faith.
This is disinformation. They are cheap because of abundance in materials, easy/advanced factory construction, competition, and advanced leadership in robotics. It’s just pure smear, not only to baselessly say slave labour exists in Xinxiang, but that it also applies to more prosperous provinces where cars are made.
Point out even a single Canadian-made EV that would be affected by this.
There are no negative effects, so long as the vehicles pass safety standards. Bonus if we can enter into partnerships that would see those EVs assembled here.
And the low cost of these EVs would make vehicle ownership far easier for our young people, who already have an environment 8× more expensive (compared to their median wage) than their parents experienced at the same age.
This would be a bad deal for Canada.
FTFY
Accusing Canada or other Western countries of protectionism while defending China is a bit of hypocrisy, no?
In addition, look why these ChEaP cHiNeSe CaRs are that cheap. I don’t want to buy a car or anything else that is made by slave labor.
Oh I’m not defending China. They’re oppressive assholes who are jamming their populace into the gears of capitalism even faster than the Americans. Fuck those guys.
I just think it’s a bit rich to try to make the argument that we should defend an industry that profits from building things we don’t want so they can run over more kids, ruin more cities, and make a shittone of cash and then cry poor and demand a bailout.
Personally, I wouldn’t buy one myself, but then again I try to avoid cheap Chinese crap as much as possible and I don’t want a car. The “BuT sLaVe LaBoUr!” Argument would be great, if anyone seemed to care about that when buying phones, or solar panels, or basically anything else, but when it’s invoked to defend American car companies, it’s obviously not in good faith.
This is disinformation. They are cheap because of abundance in materials, easy/advanced factory construction, competition, and advanced leadership in robotics. It’s just pure smear, not only to baselessly say slave labour exists in Xinxiang, but that it also applies to more prosperous provinces where cars are made.
Point out even a single Canadian-made EV that would be affected by this.
There are no negative effects, so long as the vehicles pass safety standards. Bonus if we can enter into partnerships that would see those EVs assembled here.
And the low cost of these EVs would make vehicle ownership far easier for our young people, who already have an environment 8× more expensive (compared to their median wage) than their parents experienced at the same age.
The entire Canadian economy would be negatively effected in the long-term by such a move.
TIL a higher standard of living is a “negative effect”.
You may have (intentionally?) misunderstood my comment.
Yeah well… I’d like to do whatever Poland is doing.
Yeah, kneecapping our canola industry to support the USA’s foreign policy, on the other hand, is a great deal for us.