PM Mark Carney's Canada

[afransen]

Chinese EVs wont be eligible for the $5K rebate. It is only available for vehicles made in a free trade partner country.

 

[EBT]

Chinese EVs wont be eligible for the $5K rebate. It is only available for vehicles made in a free trade partner country.

Chinese EVs won't need rebates because they will sell like hotcakes at their low price-points.

Almost every EV sold in Canada over the last 10 years have been American made. Only recently did Canada start building an EV model the Dodge Charger EV (haven't seen any on the streets yet). For over a decade Canadian taxpayers have subsidized to the tune of billions American made EVs from Tesla, Lucid, Rivian, GM, and Ford and look where that got us? Trump has taken a sledgehammer to our auto industry not only with tariffs but by granting tax deductions for interest on car loans but only if a car is made in the USA. It is insanity to be subsidizing any American made car and especially those made by Tesla.

 

[chrisw]

Infrastructure Minister confirms $5-billion cut to transit program, says cities have access to other funds

Gregor Robertson says municipalities have access to ‘tens of billions more’ through Build Communities Strong Fund announced in federal budget

www.theglobeandmail.com

Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson confirmed that the federal government is cutting $5-billion over 10 years to Ottawa’s key transfer program for municipal transit, but he says cities now have access to other funds as well.

The Infrastructure Minister has confirmed that the $30B Public Transit Fund will be cut to $25B.

“The Canada Public Transit Fund does go from thirty to twenty-five billion in the budget. That is guaranteed funding that is available to cities for public transit. And in addition to that, we have tens of billions more that’s accessible through the Build Communities Strong Fund,” he told reporters. “So that combination enables some more flexibility and more project-based funding.”

Mr. Robertson was referencing a new $51-billion fund, which was announced in the Nov. 4 budget and primarily involves existing programs that are being renamed and reprofiled.

The transit fund remains as a separate program.

I think this is a positive as there was some initial confusion whether the Public Transit Fund was being completely cannibalized by the $51B Build Communities Strong Fund.