{"id":43668,"date":"2026-01-16T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43668"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:10:58","slug":"doug-ford-blasts-mark-carneys-ev-deal-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43668","title":{"rendered":"Doug Ford blasts Mark Carney\u2019s EV deal with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/doug-ford-blasts-mark-carneys-ev-deal-with-china\/article_7fabe4e1-8ad0-46fd-8b01-219eb00997fb.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696a44da148de.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:226px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ford predicted Carney\u2019s move would further raise the ire of current President Donald Trump, who is already in a trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/doug-ford-blasts-mark-carneys-ev-deal-with-china\/article_7fabe4e1-8ad0-46fd-8b01-219eb00997fb.html\">Doug Ford blasts Mark Carney\u2019s EV deal with China<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\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\">\n<p>Under the deal, Ottawa is allowing up to 49,000 Chinese EVs into Canada market at a <strong><em>tariff rate of 6.1 per cent<\/em><\/strong>, a massive reduction from the 100 per cent set by former prime minister Justin Trudeau in 2024 to match then-U.S. president Joe Biden\u2019s levies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>a bit rich to hear dougie is worried tfg might get mad about this.  which he might, but who cares?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford predicted Carney\u2019s move would further raise the ire of current President&#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":[150,149,244,2008,1102],"class_list":["post-43668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-dougie","tag-ev","tag-tariffs","tag-tfg","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43668","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=43668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43671,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43668\/revisions\/43671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}