Canada

They also seem to have a better climate change story than anyone in north america

They lied about covid numbers, so I don't really trust their pollution numbers either, but they make some kind of "one step forwards, two steps back" progress because they keep building new coal power plants.

and USA has totally shown itself to be a mercurial alley.

The US is absolutely a shithole now, I don't think we should look to them for EVs either.

I don't see what advantage high tariffs have on something we want more of (EV's). If the standards suck, then I'm ok with bringing them up to standard and charging for that. Making this an either or "they are or aren't our enemies" seems unnecessary, when we could buy their things and put pressure on them to do better on the things at the top.

So, Trump kind of ruined saying tariffs as a solution to anything, but they are a tool to apply pressure to trade partners. Huge tariffs on Chinese EVs isn't contributing to our cost of living crisis, because we can get EVs from elsewhere for decent prices, and because EVs are a super luxury item anyway.

There's no pressure applied if we buy their EVs at cost. We don't realistically have enough global political power to apply any political pressure either.

This is just something we copy from US. There's a need to befriend lesser enemies, though China has never threatened us.

Nonsense. They're an existential threat to good allies like Taiwan and Hong Kong, and support other threats including Russia and North Korea.

Edit: And if you need specific risks to Canada, don't forget the Chinese police stations, the 2 Michaels being detained, and interfering with our elections.