Have you read the article?
Removing a 20% additional cost for next year's models seems prudent at a time when the industry is being slapped by American tarrifs. The other bit is a 60 day pause.
Maybe long term the solution is BYD, I personally don't think every country needs its own wasteful national EV program, it's a terrible white elephant project.
Long term, turns out our auto sector is entirely dependent on America doing what they promised, which is no longer a guarantee. Changing an entire national industry is much harder than it is in video games, and yeah, deciding whether to later be largely dependent on foreign car manufacturers and fighting out what to do with those factories and workers is incredibly complicated.
Tldr; wouldn't bother with pearl clutching about how this is destroying EV adoption in Canada etc.
I think you might just be confused or deliberately reading this oddly? Yes, the mandate is at the very least delayed by a year (that's what the 2026 part is) and is being reviewed in totality. At the end of the pause, it might be removed, might be restructured etc, that's literally what it means to review a government policy.
Fully agree. And as such, Canadian industry is likely in for a continued battering as we hemorrhage jobs. And America will likely battle anything approaching EV mandates in its markets. So, such a mandate might just make cars unaffordable in Canada (our market is insignificant compared to to America's.)
As I said earlier, these are huge conversations with implications across the globe. The landscape is wildly different than it was when the Liberals put forward the original legislation. I would want to at a bare minimum, restructure any such mandates in conjunction with the EU, possibly abandon the auto sector entirely etc.
This is silly and the same nonsense that puts republicans in power in America. It's the same idiots who said who screamed there was no difference between Democratic and republican environmental policy because Harris would allow fracking, if you can't look and see a stunning chasm between what is and what would have been, that's on you. To seriously suggest that the Conservatives would have the same environmental policy is not only childish beyond belief, stunningly ignorant but that level of false equivocation is fundamentally dangerous.
Edit:
I realize not everyone actually reads what the opposition proposes. Here's a look at the last conservative platform, in particular the climate stuff, feel free to let me know how much of this you think is happening under Carney: