
… If Justin Trudeau and his Liberals somehow, God forbid, manage to get themselves re-elected in the next federal election, a number of Chinese brands — BYD and Nio almost assuredly, but also others are surely girding up for the fight — will announce plans to start building a dealer network here in Canada, in advance of a full-scale invasion in 2026. As I stated in “The consequences of Canada’s EV mandate,” the main reason we haven’t yet been flooded with cheap Chinese electrics is because the United States has a 25-per-cent tariff on Chinese cars.
