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[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

You don't have to do that. Remove tariffs on Chinese EVs, and the market will ruin Tesla on its own.

[-] samuelazers@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Wow, no kidding, we have 100% tarrifs on chinese EV and 25% chinese aluminium.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-china-electric-vehicles-1.7486204

If it comes to it, Canadians might have to seek alliance with China, and that's something neither americans nor canadians really want.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Yea let’s not do what we always do by switching from one bad thing to the thing we know is worse because “change” while better solutions exist. China also threatens sovereignty, supplies Russia, and even works with North Korea. They have even worse labour issues than the US does, though oddly they seem to do alright with trans rights. The concentration camps for Uyghurs does offset that last bit, though.

I wish we had more brains than “frying pan hot, must jump into fire”.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago

The problem is we probably need one of them? Their economies are massive and America's by far the biggest. Unless we want our economy to shrink. Like it or not they are the two biggest fish in the pond.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

So we strengthen our connections with Europe, then, and ourselves. Yes, it will be harder than just flip-flopping between two bad options but that is literally the point I’m trying to make.

Look at our current setup: The Conservatives are garbage and the only good things the Liberals seem to do are things that the coalition with the NDP forced them to do. The NDP, however, is treated like they’re a non-starter option because they have fewer seats even though they got more than half of the Liberal or Conservative votes even with strategic voting being a thing. The Bloc got more seats while having slightly more than half the NDP votes.

We just keep bouncing between terrible options like stupid little reactionaries because it feels easier than doing anything that will genuinely help us.

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