CTV News has learned that Mark Carney and a group of ministers will make a broad series of 'sector-based' announcements Friday, aimed at increasing Canada’s competitiveness, supporting sectors impacted most by tariffs and spurring domestic industry.
The EV rollback isn’t that surprising, especially with the ‘spin’ on increasing Canada’s competitiveness. All the car manufacturing companies in Ontario are US owned, and they want to maintain market rule-parity with the US so that they’re more ‘competitive’ in the US market. It’s a move to appease the USA, even as the govt tries to pitch itself as moving away from US reliance.
The buy Canada stuff is a sham – we’ve had a full year of our politicians making that sort of noise, while shrugging their shoulders and buying in to US monopolies/control. Ontario tears up a Starlink contract (“oooh! Go Doug!”), and like the same week we hear that Rogers is parterning with Starlink, thus providing a nice Canadian face for anyone that wants to buy the US company’s service. Our govt is totally in Microsoft’s cloud, and completely incapable of moving away from it, and have increased their reliance since all the trade stuff started falling apart.
Idk, not a very optimistic announcement overall from my pov.
The EV rollback isn’t that surprising, especially with the ‘spin’ on increasing Canada’s competitiveness. All the car manufacturing companies in Ontario are US owned, and they want to maintain market rule-parity with the US so that they’re more ‘competitive’ in the US market. It’s a move to appease the USA, even as the govt tries to pitch itself as moving away from US reliance.
The buy Canada stuff is a sham – we’ve had a full year of our politicians making that sort of noise, while shrugging their shoulders and buying in to US monopolies/control. Ontario tears up a Starlink contract (“oooh! Go Doug!”), and like the same week we hear that Rogers is parterning with Starlink, thus providing a nice Canadian face for anyone that wants to buy the US company’s service. Our govt is totally in Microsoft’s cloud, and completely incapable of moving away from it, and have increased their reliance since all the trade stuff started falling apart.
Idk, not a very optimistic announcement overall from my pov.