• voluble@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    I hope this is a lever Canada uses to get China to fuck off with their foreign interference, and stop trying to flood our auto market with their trojan horse spy EVs.

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      8 days ago

      Can we actually get the 10 thousand dollar EVs please

      They can spy on me all they want i have no fucking clue what i do that could possibly be beneficial to Chinese intelligence that they can’t already readily find on the internet. We post everything. All the major American and Canadian corporations are already stealing and selling our data en mass. Their cars do too actually. Japanese cars as well. Any device with any connection to the internet does. Unless you’re buying something explicitly opposed to that. And even then they still do half the time.

      I’d like a cheap car that is efficient, long lasting, and well made please. Can we not also have a trade war with China. Let’s not do that. It’s not going to end well for America. I’d love to stop driving a gas car. I will almost certainly never be able to do so with American made vehicles. I’d love it if China flooded our auto market with EVs. Can we get a petition going lmao

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    8 days ago

    I’d prefer we not sell any oil. Shit is killing the planet.
    But I’d rather sell to China than the US at this point. Trump can fuck right off with his bullshit.

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    8 days ago

    And guess who canada used to sell oil to? The US… Who typically has a thirst for Canada’s nice heavy crude oils to help balance out the light, sweet crude made by most American oil fields.
    Sourcing heavy crude from other suppliers who have to bring it in via tanker, because Chinese buyers can outbid the tarriffed American buyers… Tankers are significantly more expensive than local pipelines, is going to drive the cost of middle distillates up a bunch on top of the tarriffs.

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    8 days ago

    America is no rookie when it comes to threatening & invading countries for their oil, it’s a shame Canada has little means of defence and the liberals are further taking that defence away.

    Conservatives are not much better however, we can no longer rely on the US for national security.

    Elections are coming up folks, pick wisely between the two evils.

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      8 days ago

      Come to Canada and find out how weak our defense is! We’ll be waiting for you muricans

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        8 days ago

        Come to Canada and find out how weak our defense is!

        Ah yes, I’m sure once October hits and the liberals start confiscating people’s semi-automatic rifles everyone will feel so safe!

        Fun fact 604 area code is Vancouver.