Poilievre vows 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs as Liberals’ next move unclear

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Poilievre vows 100% tariffs on ******** EVs as Liberals’ next move unclear

************* Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged to match steep U.S. tariffs on ******** electric vehicles if elected, something the ******** government is considering but has to decide on.

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The call comes after Ottawa wrapped up a 30-day consultation process on ******** EVs last week and has not said when those findings — or any decisions that may come as a result — will be made public.

The ************* leader is also calling for tariffs on ******** steel, aluminum, EV batteries, and wants Ottawa to stop handing out rebates for the purchase of ******** EVs.

Speaking at a steel plant in Hamilton Friday, Poilievre criticized Beijing for “weak labour and environmental standards” producing “artificially cheap steel and aluminum and EVs” and threatening ********* workers.

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“[China has] stolen technology from Western countries, limited access to global supply chains and massively subsidized steel, aluminum and EV industries. They’re doing this with the goal of crushing our steel, our aluminum, and our automotive production and taking our jobs away,” said Poilievre.

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“Trudeau has done nothing to protect our workers and our jobs. Worse than that — this is where it gets really crazy — he’s giving out rebates for people to buy ******** made cars.”

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Poilievre is proposing:

• 100 per cent tariff on ********-made EVs entering Canada
• 50 per cent tariff on semiconductors and solar cells
• 25 per cent tariff on steel, aluminum and other critical minerals
• 25 per cent tariff on EV batteries, battery parts

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Canada mulls import tariffs on ********-made EVs after U.S. move

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Canada’s automotive sector and Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged the federal government to follow the U.S’s lead by hiking tariffs on ******** EVs from 25 per cent to 100 per cent.

Last week GM Canada President Kristian Aquilina said doing so would create a “fair playing field.”

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In June, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said she was concerned with China’s “unfair” trade practices undermining ********* EV industry, which has received billions of dollars in government subsidies.

Freeland also highlighted potential national security concerns related to ******** EVs with one expert describing the vehicles to Global News as “rolling spy vans.”

But Poilievre accused the Liberals of dragging their feet, and not doing enough to shield the industry.

“Trudeau has ******* to protect our workers against this economic predation,” he said.

“We’re going to bring home those paychecks to Canada, bring home our jobs.”

A spokesperson for the finance minister said Poilievre is “two months late to the conversation.”

“It is incredibly rich for Pierre Poilievre to attempt to repackage the government’s position that action is necessary to protect ********* auto workers from unfair ******** trade practices in electric vehicles and claim it as his own,” said Katherine Cuplinskas.

“As the true defender of ********* workers and industries, including of the auto manufacturing, steel, and aluminum sectors, our government will have more to say soon,” she added.

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