“Net-Zero Tyranny” – Page 15

Carmakers facing billions in credit purchases under EV mandate if sales don’t improve

OTTAWA — Canadian automakers are warning they could be on the hook for billions of dollars in credit purchases if Canada’s electric vehicle mandate is enforced as written, and sales don’t ramp up.

Automakers already have deals lined up with companies like Tesla to buy credits to close expected gaps between sales and the targets set by the EV mandate. That could end up costing the industry more than $3 billion by 2030, Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association president Brian Kingston told the House of Commons international trade committee on Thursday.

by Blazingcatfur•September 19, 2025September 19, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Jim Warren: Carney Liberals could provide opponents of petroleum and pipelines with a $1.0 billion war chest

And so it begins. Environmentalists and Indigenous groups have launched the first protests and legal actions threatening conventional energy production since Mark Carney became prime minister.

A few small protests have been held in Ontario and Quebec and a lawsuit was filed by nine First Nations this summer in response to Bill C-5 (the Building Canada Act). And environmentalists have filed suit for an injunction to reverse the Government of Saskatchewan’s decision to operate its coal-fired electrical power stations beyond the federal government’s 2030 shutdown deadline.

by Blazingcatfur•September 18, 2025September 18, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ottawa spends $45k to learn most Canadians don’t care about plastic ban

The Trudeau government paid $45,076 for in-house polling that found most Canadians don’t care about Ottawa’s attempt to brand plastics as toxic.

According to the Department of Environment survey, 51% of Canadians are “neutral consumers” who have no strong views on the issue.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2025September 16, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

TERRAZZANO: Carney must can the ban on gas and diesel vehicles

When your puppy makes a mess on the carpet, you don’t sit around for 60 days consulting. It’s a rapid reaction situation.

Remove the “deposit.” Apply soapy water. Move on and play fetch.

There are parallels between politics and puppies.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau left a huge mess for Prime Minister Mark Carney to clean up.

by Blazingcatfur•September 15, 2025September 15, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ram Cancels All-Electric Pickup Truck Plan Citing Slowing Demand

Ram has abandoned plans to launch an electric pickup truck, according to a Sept. 12 statement from Stellantis.

“As demand for full-size battery-electric trucks slows in North America, Stellantis is reassessing its product strategy and will discontinue development of a full-size [battery-electric] pickup,” the company said.

In December 2024, the company said it planned on launching its Ram 1500 battery-electric pickup in the first half of 2025.

by Blazingcatfur•September 15, 2025September 14, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

WHISSELL: What you must know about Canada’s critical minerals

Whether he’s pressuring Ukraine for backpay or speculating about Greenland’s riches, when Donald Trump mentions critical minerals, he’s ultimately concerned with one thing and one thing only: defence.

According to the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) definition of a “critical mineral,” that makes perfect sense. In concert with the USGS, the US government is clearly focused on how vulnerable supply chains of critical minerals affect their national security.

by Blazingcatfur•September 15, 2025September 14, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MORGAN: Carney’s eco-zealotry is crushing Canada’s economy

Canada’s economy is sputtering and it will continue to under Liberal rule. Carney’s administration is as economically reckless as Trudeau’s was and for the same reason. Carney’s net-zero obsession is overwhelming his pragmatism when it comes to policy reforms. He can’t allow himself to support any policy that may clash with his green vision for the world thus he dithers and offers double-speak while industries continue to decline.

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•September 14, 2025September 14, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau’s damaging energy policies must be undone

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has promised to make Canada the world’s leading “energy superpower,” but so far, the government has failed to reduce regulatory hurdles and uncertainty in energy development. It’s time to reverse the damaging federal policies that have held back Canada’s energy industry for more than a decade.

by Blazingcatfur•September 14, 2025September 14, 2025•0•"Energy Matters", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GOLDSTEIN: Who’s the real Mark Carney on climate change?

Prime Minister Mark Carney has the opportunity to craft a climate policy that makes sense to Canadian taxpayers – versus the political insanity of the Justin Trudeau era – but the question is whether he is ultimately a pragmatist or an ideologue.

Prior to becoming PM, Carney was definitely an ideologue on climate change.

I don’t trust Carney.

by Blazingcatfur•September 14, 2025September 13, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ivison: Canada’s multi-billion dollar bet on EV battery plants is ‘disastrous’ policy, Balsillie says

The man credited with remaking the smartphone industry with Blackberry in the early 2000s says Ottawa’s decision to give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to foreign companies like Volkswagen to build battery cell manufacturing plants in Canada was a “catastrophically disastrous move.”

Jim Balsillie, the former chair of Research in Motion and more recently the co-founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators, told National Post’s John Ivison that he thinks Canada’s approach to trade and competitiveness is outdated and ignores the fact that in the knowledge economy, prosperity flows from ownership of intellectual property.

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2025September 12, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Foreign workers drove forklifts, did trade tasks at Windsor EV battery plant, say union, construction leaders

Canadian construction and union leaders say they’re frustrated over the continued use of foreign workers for non-specialized tasks at the massive NextStar electric vehicle battery plant project in Windsor, Ont., that’s receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer support.

They also say they’ve been disappointed in the response they’ve received from all levels of government when they’ve raised concerns.

“I personally have sat with many ministers federally, provincially, right to the top. And it’s not a secret,” says Jason Roe, the business manager for Local 700 of the Ironworkers union. “People know that it’s been going on.”

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2025September 13, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

School bus fire: Quebec pulls all 1,200 Lion electric buses off roads for inspection

Schools across Quebec have been forced to cancel bus service after the government pulled all of the roughly 1,200 Lion electric buses in the province off the roads.

The provincial government said it took the precautionary measure after a Lion electric school bus caught fire in Montreal earlier this week. Several children and a driver were inside the bus when it caught fire but no one was injured.

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2025September 12, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

GUNTER: Count on Carney to continue Trudeau’s anti-pipeline stance

According to Radio-Canada (the CBC’s French-language service) Prime Minister Mark Carney will not include an oil pipeline in his list of national priority projects to be released Thursday. Radio-Canada says three sources with knowledge of the list have confirmed the Liberals’ decision.

Well, so much for Canada becoming an energy superpower, as Carney has promised repeatedly. That’s not going to happen without at least one, and likely two, pipelines to go east and west to new export terminals.

by Blazingcatfur•September 12, 2025September 11, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Scrapping 100% tariff on Chinese EVs would be death knell for Canada’s auto industry, experts warn

As the federal government reviews Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, industry insiders warn that ditching it entirely would be “an existential threat” to the Canadian automotive industry.

The tariff, which came into place almost a year ago, faces an automatic review, with results due by Oct. 1. Getting rid of it would prompt harsh retaliation from the U.S., and be the death knell for automotive production here, said the head of the association representing Detroit’s Big Three automakers in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•September 12, 2025September 11, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Carney considering scrapping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

If Canadians were in the driver’s seat, tariffs imposed by Ottawa on Chinese electric vehicles (EV) would have an easier road to the Canadian market.

At least that’s according to a Nanos Research survey with CTV News, which found 62 per cent of respondents either support or somewhat support removing a 100 per cent tax on all Chinese-made EVs, in the hopes that China may remove tariffs against Canadian crops like Canola.

Just what we need.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2025September 10, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government