They Scrapped the EV Mandate — Then Quietly Opened a China EV Back Door
Canada just scrapped its EV sales mandate — but in doing so, it may have exposed a much bigger problem.In this episode of Tap the Maple, we break down a little-discussed loophole in Canada’s China EV agreement that could allow far more than 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market, legally, through domestic assembly and joint ventures.We explain how “Canadian-made” definitions work, how other regions like Europe, Mexico, Brazil, and Thailand have already experienced this playbook, and why incentives tied to assembly location, not ownership, matter more than most people…
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