“Climate policy planks that were delivering significant emissions reductions are falling one by one,” Debora Van Nijnatten, professor of political science and environmental studies at Wilfred Laurier University, said in a phone interview with Canada’s National Observer.
“There appears to be no plan to replace that with other emission reduction strategies, and there’s no plan in place to show how the reactive policy choices that they’ve been making in a piecemeal fashion add up to any climate strategy that is integrated with the economic strategy.”
“The Liberals keep retreating in the face of populist conservative rhetoric that targets some aspects of climate policy,” Van Nijnatten said.
With Chinese and European carmakers surging forward with EVs, Van Nijnatten fears pausing the mandate will only add to the gap in North American competitiveness while limiting choice for consumers.
North American automakers “will not choose to do it on their own, because, first of all, they’re protected by tariff walls and, second of all, they’re protected by policy and politics,” she said.
Fossil fuel extraction infrastructure projects are “national interest”, electrification to curb our contribution to CO2 emissions that are literally causing catastrophic climate change and destroying our homes can be “delayed”.
All wrapped in the maple leaf flag.
The false patriotism of bankers.
The EV mandate was all talk, they basically just said it was going to happen but then did nothing to actually facilitate the transition. No tax credits, no lowering of tariffs on imports, no charging infrastructure investment. Just wishful thinking.
also, EVs just magically work in CDN winters. This was policy based in people who thought Musk was a genius.
Literally zero issues with modern EVs and winters. I know someone who has two and both him and his wife commute a great distance every day of the year in them, for many years now. Sounds like you’ve believed some random Facebook anti-ev propaganda without fact checking it?
If it works in Norway there no reason it woudn’t work here.
Bankers are financing the incineration of our planet. Carney is first and foremost a banker, so color me shocked at this news.
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Nothing is stopping Canadians from buying electric cars.
It’s Carney’s fault this country is in love with massive pickups?
Nothing is stopping Canadians from buying electric cars.
The ridiculous tariffs make electric cars unaffordable for many that would buy them otherwise.
