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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.

Tell that to the vast majority of ridings where it doesn't really matter :/

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.

Agreed. Could you imagine if hospital care was means-tested lol.

Not dog whistling the anti science crowd by saying there's "some" evidence (there isn't) that it might not be safe.

It's really not reasonable, it's the same language and "skepticism" from anti vaxxers. We shouldn't be tolerant of this from political leaders just because we kinda like them.

Elizabeth May is from the old school granola hippie crowd in Victoria, she's a great legal mind but not scientific.

I think the only people looking at riding projections or riding history are us nerds who discuss politics on lemmy. I think strategic voting in the general public is very real, but it seems to more take the form of "I normally vote NDP and will vote Liberal this time" rather than digging into the politics of their riding.

who cares why, why announce it lmao

I'm a software developer in Canada. I've only ever heard "day ta"

Trudeau and PP both have a history of wearing ethnic costumes, but it's just funny to me that Trudeau actually looks good in them and PP looks creepy since he's such an inauthentic alien

Squinty lizard-person is making fun of the candidate that looks like a real person?