Canada

No, we're just going to switch one master to another. It's better to build factories that make something we can use in Canada like mass transit vehicles and vehicles made for harsh winters.
Internalizing mass transit vehicles reduces the cost of production and makes it easier to build a larger transit network with shorter wait times. Once you can build commuter train systems, it's a shorter step to build freight trains. The factories can keep running by switching between passenger and freight trains.
Vehicles that can operate better in Canadian and Arctic land and waters can be sold in Canada, and the income generated recirculate more in Canada.

No thanks. I don't trust them after what they did to Nortel. It's much better for Canada to build a high-speed train line and more LRTs all across Canada because:

• Building transit allows us to train our workers for these types of projects. Workers gain new skills which can be used for more transit projects.
• Relying on auto manufacturing results in federal and provincial governments dumping billions of investment incentives into these companies for production runs that are essentially limited time only. Once the production run is up after 5 or so years, they ask the government for more money again or they threaten to move production.
• Makes our communities walk-able, safer, and makes travelling more convenient.
• Our roads in major cities are already at or above capacity and we can't keep jamming our roads with more and more cars.

Canada heavily investing in electrified public transit would do a lot more for the economy and the environment than any EV deal with any country. It also has a side effect of supporting denser housing which could help us get out of our housing crisis.

Canada will still need EVs for people who would rather drive or live rurally but our focus should be reducing the reliance on cars. EVs are massively energy and resource ineffcient compared to transit and transit can be made accesible to more people.

No.

Which is short for Nortel.

If the manufacturers we have here don't want to make EVs, we have no EV manufacturing jobs to protect. Unless we're planning to live on ICE vehicles into the climate crisis, we have to get a source of EVs. The options are import and FDI (foreign direct investment (build factories here)). FDI is probably preferable since it gives us the ability to make the vehicles we use. If we go for import, we probably want the cheapest possible deal that fits the bill, unless we want to pay extra for a good reason. E.g. we may want to buy European. Of course we have to ask whether that's worth the cost given that they source some of their components from China. I think some European autos are planning to use Chinese platforms for their vehicles. At that point it may or may not make sense to pay the premium. That differs from maker to maker. E.g. Renault's latest EVs seem EU-made. More broadly, the less in corporate profits we pay for our EVs, the more money are left in our pockets to spend on other Canadians. The cheaper the EVs, the less the cost of Canadian businesses using them is and the more competitive they are.

Hell no.

What we need is an auto pact with China. A tit-fr-tat cross-border supply chain. They make cars in Canada, buy parts from the Canadian supply chain for cars they make in China. and everyone wins.