Canada’s government on Monday announced it is imposing a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles that matches U.S. tariffs and follows similar plans announced by the European Commission.
The announcement followed encouragement by U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and cabinet ministers on Sunday. Sullivan is set to make his first visit to Beijing on Tuesday.
Trudeau said Canada also will impose a 25% tariff on Chinese steel and aluminum.
“Actors like China have chosen to give themselves an unfair advantage in the global marketplace,” he said.
My issue is more along the lines of our government making policies like these while refusing to enact policies to help with the overall cost of living. You’re not wrong about what the Chinese subsidies and I know one can say “Well you can focus on both”. It’s just that I see more of a focus on the one issue and not both. So when they take something affordable, jack up the price, and do nothing to help with the overall affordability in our day to day lives; I just feel like that’s a slap in the face.
The majority of the cost of living stuff needs to be solved at the provincial and municipal level, you should learn about the different powers each level has.
I did. I also know that a lot of the major changes done by the provincial and municipal governments come from federal funding.
I know premiers like Doug Ford are just as responsible for this predicament, if not even more. I’m just saying the federal government can do more than it currently is.
Not without infringing on provincial and municipal powers and you shouldn’t be in favor of that because the closer a government is to you the more power you have over it.
I’m not saying they step in and do it for them. I’m saying they help fund it. Provincial funding is limited. For big projects, it almost always includes federal funding.
Funding it is overstepping, if the federal government has enough money to fund things that fall under provincial jurisdiction it only means you’re paying too much federal taxes.
You’re welcome to think that. Just understand that’s not actually what’s happening. A lot of projects have funding at the federal level.
https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/plan/icip-proj-piic-eng.html
Here’s the list if you don’t believe me. You can filter by province if you’d like.
You think I don’t know that? It’s an issue as well, federal vs provincial powers are defined but the federal government can’t help but interfere? Well, there’s a fucking issue with the federation and the amount of taxes that they collect then!
Remember, every time the federal government is giving money to finance programs that fall under provincial jurisdiction (when they’re not simply running the program) it’s a government mostly elected by people of other provinces that’s deciding that and you’re just one out of 28+ millions electors, come next election the government can switch and all that financing can simply stop even if your province (where your voice is a much higher percentage of the eligible voters) has been electing the same kind of politicians for decades, won’t matter, people in other provinces decided that your province was gonna lose funding for programs that benefit you.