With Canada’s auto sector already under assault from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the $52.5 billion the federal and provincial governments have earmarked to create a domestic electric vehicle supply chain industry in Canada have become an albatross around taxpayers’ necks.
Workers at a massive, publicly subsidized electric vehicle (EV) battery plant project in southwestern Ontario have faced repeated health and safety hazards, including high levels of carbon monoxide, electrical risks and flooded parking lots, according to government records obtained by CBC News.
The documents show provincial inspectors have visited the site dozens of times since construction broke ground in 2022 and have issued over 100 orders to NextStar Energy, the company behind the project, that were related to health and safety issues.
INGERSOLL — General Motors is ending production of its BrightDrop electric delivery van in Ingersoll, Ont. in the latest blow to the province’s automotive sector.
The company says the decision is related to low demand for the model and it isn’t moving production elsewhere.
The Conservative Party of Canada is calling on the federal government to publicly release its contracts with Stellantis following the company’s announcement Tuesday that it is scrapping plans to produce the Jeep Compass in Brampton, Ont., and going with a U.S. plant instead.
The demand was made in a letter sent on Friday to Prime Minister Mark Carney by the leader of the official opposition, Pierre Poilievre.
“You claimed yesterday that Stellantis is obligated to keep jobs in Brampton, yet auto workers have been left in the dark about what Canadians got for the $10 billion your government promised to that company,” Poilievre wrote in the letter.
On Wednesday, laid-off employees at the Stellantis plant in Brampton, Ont., received a robocall delivering bad news: they had no jobs to go back to.
It was another stall on the road for Canada’s automotive strategy, which has seen federal and provincial governments dole out mounds of cash and add regulations and protective tariffs in a floundering attempt to create more jobs and build a state-of-the-art electric vehicle industry.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is steering Canada toward an economic wreck with his plan to ban the sale of new gas and diesel vehicles by 2035.
Carney has announced a one-year pause and a two-month consultation to find a way out.
This week’s announcement by automaker Stellantis that it’s moving Jeep Compass production from its Brampton, Ont., plant, to Illinois, highlights the folly of Ottawa’s policy of competing with Washington. But it also provides Canada an opportunity to reduce taxpayers’ exposure to the sagging electric vehicle battery market.
This could be a very lucky break for tax payers.
A Tesla driver was injured in a violent arc flash explosion after attempting to charge his vehicle at a non-Tesla station in Hope, using a third-party adapter, according to a new report from Technical Safety B.C.
(Incognito)
The expansion of a battery project planned for Bécancour, Que., has been put on hold, and the plant that was supposed to feed it has been cancelled.
Quebec Economy Minister Christine Fréchette says Ultium Cam — a partnership of General Motors and South Korean manufacturer POSCO — has paused the second phase of a project to produce cathode active materials for electric-vehicle batteries.
The Canadian government is waving around Canada’s “public” health-care system like they are handing out free candy trying to entice people from around the world to come here to take advantage of it and the taxpayers who pay for it.
Carney: Policy for profit regardless if the policy is junk science
In a leaked audio recording, Canadian PM Mark Carney admits the Net Zero agenda is about making "a lot of money".
"We're gonna make a lot of money off of this." pic.twitter.com/YfZNmDZZ1V
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) October 16, 2025
h/t XC
Electric-vehicle companies urge Ottawa to maintain EV sales mandate
The electric-vehicle industry says the federal government’s move away from EV sales targets undermines the Canadian sector while threatening investment and job creation.
The government said in September it was dropping the requirement that 20 per cent of car sales be EVs in 2026, and launching a review of the entire program, which raised the requirement to 100 per cent by 2035.
I wonder who has lined up dealership rights for ChiCom EV’s?
COMPLETE EV MANUFACTURING FAILURE IN CANADA
ALL of the following highlighted EV subsidized projects are now either bankrupt, cancelled or delayed
ONLY ONE of 13 projects from Canada's 52 BILLION DOLLAR EV giveaway is moving forward
and thats VW powerco. pic.twitter.com/9GBuKd30nO
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) October 15, 2025
h/t Mauser
Premier Doug Ford insists there isn’t a major split in ‘Team Canada’ approach, as prairie provinces urge the federal government to drop electric vehicle tariffs, which are in place predominantly to shield Ontario jobs.
A letter from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew to Prime Minister Mark Carney last week urged him to drop 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, after China’s ambassador suggested his country would end its crippling canola tariffs in response.
General Motors said it is reducing its electric-vehicle manufacturing capacity and booking a $1.6 billion charge on its EV business as demand sinks.
The company said that EV sales, already weaker than expected when GM set out years ago on an ambitious plan to eventually end sales of gas-powered cars, are expected to fall with the end of government-funded subsidies and regulatory mandates that fueled EV growth.
Communism = EV Mandates.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has been handed a golden parachute by the Chinese government. Their ambassador has said quite plainly: if Canada removes its 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, China will reciprocate by dropping its crippling levies on Canadian agriculture, most notably canola and pork. It’s not a gift. It’s leverage. But it’s an opportunity.
China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), that country’s ambassador says.
“If Canada removes the unilateral unjustified tariffs on Chinese products, China will also reciprocate accordingly,” Wang Di said through a translator in an exclusive interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “And if the EV tariffs are removed, then China will also remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada.”
I would not be surprised if Carney plays the China card.
Canada is deeply corrupted by Communist China and defiance of the US will create opportunity for Carney’s carpetbagger pals.
The Elbow people will be in 7th Heaven.
