Kinew says drop tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to get Chinese duties dropped

WINNIPEG – Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking the prime minister to scrap Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork.

Kinew says in a letter to Mark Carney on Saturday that while he believes protecting Canada’s vehicle industry is important, he says the country’s approach “has created a two-front trade war that disproportionally affects Western Canada.”

The premier says in the letter that China’s tariffs — widely seen as a response to Canada imposing the electric vehicle levy — have already caused a sharp drop in canola prices and that one vertically integrated pork producer in Manitoba is reporting a $19 million negative impact on an annual basis.


Is Carney leaning east to China?

Taiwan worried Canada may abandon trade agreement – Carney government signals reluctance to honor economic framework deal with Taipei

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China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador

 

China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), that country’s ambassador says.

“If Canada removes the unilateral unjustified tariffs on Chinese products, China will also reciprocate accordingly,” Wang Di said through a translator in an exclusive interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “And if the EV tariffs are removed, then China will also remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada.”


I would not be surprised if Carney plays the China card.

Canada is deeply corrupted by Communist China and defiance of the US will create opportunity for Carney’s carpetbagger pals.

The Elbow people will be in 7th Heaven.

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On Which Side of History Will You Stand? A Former Mountie’s Challenge to Canada’s Lawmakers

OTTAWA — When we held the press conference unveiling Canada Under Siege: How P.E.I. Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party, we did much more than launch a book. We set down a marker: Canada has entered a new era of contestation — over influence, sovereignty, and the integrity of its democratic institutions.

Now, the question we pose to every political actor — federal, provincial, and municipal — is this: On which side of history will you stand?

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Pressure Mounts for Release of Long-Buried PEI Report on Buddhist Land Transactions, Amid Broader Calls for Federal Inquiry

OTTAWA — The authors of a new book, Canada Under Siege, allege that a religious group linked to the Chinese Communist Party has been involved in a pattern of suspicious land transactions across Prince Edward Island — Canada’s smallest province, which they say is increasingly a flashpoint for questions about national security, land control, and transparency.

h/t Auntie Polly

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China’s Reach in Canada: Former RCMP National Director Calls for Urgent Action

Despite years of Beijing’s efforts to expand its influence in Canada, the country has yet to fully recognize or counter the threat the communist regime poses to its future, according to a former RCMP officer.

Garry Clement, former national director for the RCMP’s Proceeds of Crime program, has been investigating transnational crime for decades. He describes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the “biggest transnational organized crime group in the world,” and says that despite growing evidence of its operatives, many in positions of authority in Canada appear unwilling to acknowledge the threat or take action.

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Canada Is Falling for China’s Climate Promises the Same Way the West Fell for Beijing’s WTO Myths

Ottawa is once again easing closer to Beijing, this time under the banner of climate policy. The suggestion is that Canada should welcome China’s pledges on carbon neutrality and treat them as an opportunity for common ground on net-zero emissions. On the surface, it looks pragmatic. In practice, it is naive. Canada risks mistaking performance for progress, applauding promises while ignoring the record of the world’s largest polluter, while granting Beijing the leverage it seeks through climate diplomacy.

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As China explores the Arctic, Canada’s military is preparing for confrontation

More than 3,000 kilometres north of the nation’s capital, soldiers, ships and aircraft of Canada’s Armed Forces gathered this week in one of the most remote areas of the country to answer one question: How would they board a foreign vessel that neither wanted to be seen, nor stopped.

What if the crew of that ship was near sensitive military sites in the North?

It may seem far-fetched. But vessels run routinely through the north with their transponders switched off — largely invisible to other ships, and not necessarily seen by Canada’s satellite and surveillance systems.

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RCMP closes investigation into two alleged Chinese police stations without laying charges

OTTAWA — The RCMP has closed its investigation into two alleged Montreal-area secret Chinese police stations in Quebec without laying charges.

In a statement, RCMP Quebec division spokesperson Cpl. Erique Gasse confirmed that the police force had closed the two-year-long investigation “recently.” The information was first reported by the Journal de Montréal.

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When U.S. Tuition Dollars Collide with National Security

In late August, President Donald J. Trump announced that up to 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed to study in the United States. He stated that without the revenue from full tuition and fees from international students, financially vulnerable schools could collapse:

“I like that their students come here, I like that other countries’ students come here. And you know what would happen if they didn’t, our system would go to hell immediately. And it wouldn’t be the top colleges, it would be colleges that struggle on the bottom.”

This policy, however, has drawn criticism across the political spectrum, even from supporters of MAGA. They argue that it prioritizes tuition dollars over national security.

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SOS: Stop China at Scarborough or Face the Chinese Off California

On September 16, Chinese and Philippine vessels collided near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

At the same time, two Chinese Coast Guard ships blasted the BRP Datu Gumbay Paing, a Filipino fisheries ship, with water cannons for almost a half hour. The belligerent action resulted in “significant damage” to the boat and injuries to a Philippine sailor.

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Counterfeit Chinese Air-Bag Parts Tied to Five Deaths

Two recent fatal accidents involving Chinese-made air bag parts are renewing warnings from regulators over counterfeit components that can explode during a crash.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is looking into seven incidents, including five fatalities, involving aftermarket air-bag parts that failed and ruptured during collisions.

Carney’s big on the China pivot.

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China snaps up Australian canola after trade spat with Canada, sources say

SINGAPORE/BEIJING/CANBERRA, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Chinese state trading firm COFCO has bought up to nine 60,000-metric-ton cargoes of Australian canola, three trade sources told Reuters, after Beijing last month imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of the oilseed from traditional supplier Canada.

The purchases amount to around 540,000 tons, equivalent to about 8% of China’s total canola imports last year.

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Canada ready to perform mass evacuation of Taiwan in case of Chinese invasion: officials

After Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government renewed a longstanding threat to seize control of Taiwan through force on Thursday, Canadian officials confirmed the military is prepared to conduct a mass evacuation of expatriates in the Indo-Pacific region.

Appearing before the House defence committee, Major-General Robert Ritchie told MPs the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) maintain the capability to perform a “non-combatant evacuation operation,” should a request be received from the federal government.

… A report from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada suggests more than 20,000 Canadians live in Taiwan.

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Feds ‘looking at’ axing Chinese EV tariffs to ease canola tax

OTTAWA — On the same day the prime minister is set to meet Saskatchewan’s premier after his trade mission to China, Canada’s industry minister said opening the Canadian market to Chinese-made EVs isn’t off the table.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning outside of the Liberal cabinet meeting, Melanie Joly said loosening Canada’s restrictions to China’s electric vehicles has not been ruled out to ease punishing tariffs on Canadian canola.


Flooding the market with cheap Chinese EV’s to keep a Canola market open? What could go wrong?

I mean besides Trump eviscerating what’s left of Canada’s auto industry.

Who wins?

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