{"id":35052,"date":"2024-06-26T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=35052"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:49:28","slug":"chrystia-freeland-calls-chinese-evs-a-threat-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=35052","title":{"rendered":"Chrystia Freeland calls Chinese EVs a threat to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/66799b69079fd.image_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Freeland said the government will launch 30 days of consultations before deciding how to respond to China&#8217;s &#8220;intentional, state-directed policy&#8221; of overproducing EVs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/federal\/chrystia-freeland-calls-chinas-electric-vehicles-a-threat-to-canada-and-vows-to-fight-back\/article_32aa2c6e-322e-11ef-8f28-a3dc6345e786.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrystia Freeland calls Chinese EVs a threat to Canada<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The measures under consideration include a special measure to slap a surtax on Chinese-made EVs,&nbsp;changes to which cars are eligible for the $5,000 federal EV purchase rebates, and \u201cbroader\u201d restrictions on investment in Canada, Freeland said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><p>Last week, the federal Parliamentary Budget Officer&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbo-dpb.ca\/en\/additional-analyses--analyses-complementaires\/BLOG-2425-004--tallying-government-support-ev-investment-in-canada--bilan-aide-gouvernementale-investissement-dans-ve-canada\" target=\"_blank\">calculated<\/a>&nbsp;the EV sector is slated to receive $52.5 billion in federal and provincial support.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder how much the chinese govt has subsidized their ev industry, if such a thing can be determined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=35005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prediction: the north american automakers will have their asses kicked by the chinese. just like the 1970s.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeland said the government will launch 30 days of consultations before deciding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,150,244],"class_list":["post-35052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-ev","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35052"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35063,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions\/35063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}