This is an absurdly weird write-up and completely unrelated to the linked source. Maybe you go for a walk and touch some grass.

As an addition: In June, only a few months after Carney’s widely celebrated Canada-China deal that brought down Canadian tariffs for China-made EVs, Beijing imposed a 73.5 per cent tariff on imports of Canadian pea starch, starting July 1.

That’s apparently a typo in this sentence. The article mentions several times 2026 …

Canada: Subaru Solterra gets a more EV rebate-friendly price in 2027

Subaru Canada is lowering the prices of the Solterra for the 2027 model year, so much so that the compact electric SUV may qualify for Canada’s EV rebate with a final price of no more than $50,000 … model details are available on the Subaru Canada website.

Canada: Subaru Solterra gets a more EV rebate-friendly price in 2027

Subaru Canada is lowering the prices of the Solterra for the 2027 model year, so much so that the compact electric SUV may qualify for Canada’s EV rebate with a final price of no more than $50,000 … model details are available on the Subaru Canada website.

Where is all that ‘let-Chinese-cars-in-because-they-are-cheap’ hype going? Wasn’t price the reason for the propaganda machine in Canada? Doesn’t Canada need affordable cars anymore?

You can look it up yourself. The average ATP is well below 100k in each market segment.

The Chinese EVs that were celebrated as ‘cheap’ are now filling the luxury market. The almost ironic bit here is that this was known and intended, particularly by the Chinese side of the Canada-China deal.

In addition, we must note that most of the China-made cars in Canada now are Tesla, from the company’s factory in Shanghai. And it will be Tesla that crabs the majority of the first batch of 24,500 cars coming to Canada from China. That’s half of the entire deal.

Btw, China-made Teslas in Canada have a price of slightly more than 40,000.

All this so-called deal is a joke, but propagandists like you will continue to celebrate cheap Chinese cars.

For comparison: The new vehicle average transaction price (ATP) in Canada in May was $49,220, down slightly from April and up 1.2% year-on-year.

For comparison: The new vehicle average transaction price (ATP) in Canada in May was $49,220, down slightly from April and up 1.2% year-on-year.

This Breach Media is another outlet frequently conveying (false) pro-China narratives and, more importantly, they mostly anti-Canadian.

Yeah, but at least the Chinese cars are cheaper, right? Right?

@iamthetot@piefed.ca

The ‘Canadian Dimension’ is a propaganda outlet frequently conveying pro-China and anti-Western - including anti-Canada - narratives. This is an unreliable, pro-authoritarian propaganda organization with a strong selection bias in both topics and narratives.

This post is on Taiwan.

As some claim that Russia isn’t a larger threat:

Russian group hacked Quebec water treatment plant, gained access to control pumps and chlorine dosing: CSE

Russian cybercriminals managed to hack into a Quebec municipality’s water treatment plant systems and had the ability to wreak havoc on the crucial infrastructure before getting caught, according to Canada’s cyber spy agency.

In its latest annual report released Monday, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said that it detected over 3,200 cyber incidents affecting either federal government organizations or one of ten critical infrastructure sectors, such as energy, critical minerals and water.

In one particular case discussed in the report, the signals intelligence agency said it was advised last October that Russian hacktivist group NoName had broken into the Quebec water plant’s network and gained access to many crucial systems.

It’s not (yet?) a missile, but the hostility is obvious.

As Yvan Baker, head of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Canadian Parliament, has said, the support for Ukraine serves Canada’s interests.

“There are two main reasons for Canada’s support. First, because it is the right thing to do. Ukraine deserves our support because Ukrainians are bravely defending themselves against a brutal invasion. Second, it is in Canada’s interest. As President Zelensky and others have said, Ukraine is defending Europe and effectively defending NATO. If Russia succeeds in Ukraine, I do not believe it will stop there. NATO countries would be next,” Baker said.

In related news from this week, the Canadian Chief of the defence staff points to missile technologies from Russia as biggest threat facing Canada

And as Yvan Baker, head of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Canadian Parliament, has said, the support for Ukraine serves Canada’s interests.

“There are two main reasons for Canada’s support. First, because it is the right thing to do. Ukraine deserves our support because Ukrainians are bravely defending themselves against a brutal invasion. Second, it is in Canada’s interest. As President Zelensky and others have said, Ukraine is defending Europe and effectively defending NATO. If Russia succeeds in Ukraine, I do not believe it will stop there. NATO countries would be next,” Baker said.

Yes, and the same is true for all public infrastructure and other sensitive technology.

But tankies keep up the illusion that remote control of Chinese tech isn’t a problem.

As an addition: In August 2025, a joint advisory of Western goverments’ intel - including Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) - said,

People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks. While these actors focus on large backbone routers of major telecommunications providers, as well as provider edge (PE) and customer edge (CE) routers, they also leverage compromised devices and trusted connections to pivot into other networks. These actors often modify routers to maintain persistent, long-term access to networks. [Source (pdf)]

I am not frustrated about political stuff, it’s just that this is 10 years old. We all know this already.

And lemmy/.ml maybe be ‘softer’ the the grads and bears, but you are also banned there if you criticize China. The mods there pursue the same pro-China, anti-democratic propaganda.

Everyone knows that already. This is 10 years old. If we all post things that old because they’re “absolutely pervasive” then Lemmy is a history archive or something.

@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca

All states have huge and rising trade deficits with China (the few exceptions are low-income countries from which China imports commodities). If Canada wants reliable and stable ties with mutual benefits, China is unfortunately the wrong partner.