Mark Carney’s announcement on Friday that implementation of the federal government’s zero-emission vehicle mandate will be delayed by at least a year can be read as another retreat on climate policy from the new prime minister.
It can also be read as a small victory for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who had been calling on the government to abandon the policy.
That was certainly Poilievre’s own reading of events.
It’s not just Poilievre. The auto industry itself has been begging to have the ZEV cancelled entirely.
If a pause is simply a way to save face before full blown cancellation then so be it but Carney is a fanatic with many “friends” expecting to profit from the EV scam.
