HALIFAX — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if his party is elected, it will scrap Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandates.
Canada has mandated that 20 per cent of all new vehicles sold must be electric by 2026 and 100 per cent by 2035.
Electric vehicles made up just shy of 12 per cent of the Canadian sales in 2023, but government rebate programs meant to encourage people to buy EVs came to an end in January.
Winner!
In 2021, Canada committed itself legally to achieving “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050. At various times, prime minister Justin Trudeau promised climate action would “create jobs and economic growth,” as well as a “strong economy.” The truth is that net-zero policies generate vast costs for very little benefit — and Canada would be better off changing direction.
A new Leger survey suggests more than half of Canadians do not want Ottawa to outlaw the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles in a decade.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) commissioned the poll, which shows 54% oppose the federal zero-emission mandate set to kick in by 2035, while 36% support it, and 10% remain unsure.
So, Ed Miliband has relented, and decided that after all it is not a good idea to build his green energy revolution on the back of slave labour in the Uighur region of China. Miliband had refused to back a Lords amendment to the Great British Energy Bill, first reported by Steerpike, which would have forced the putative government-owned green energy company to address the use of slave labour in its supply chains – Labour MPs were ordered to vote against it. Now the Energy and Climate Change Secretary has produced his own amendment to much the same effect.
Electric vehicles were considered the way of the future just five short years ago. Today, the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and EV battery plants is waning both in Canada and globally due to a wide range of factors.
Some of the issues cited in consumer surveys on purchasing EVs include the substantial cost disparity between EVs and gas-powered vehicles, worries about their driving range, reliability in cold weather, and the availability of charging facilities. Along with the repercussions of increased interest rates and inflation, all these factors have played a role in shaping consumer behaviour since 2020.
On Dec. 1, 1962, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers met the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 50th Grey Cup at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium. During the game, a mass of thick fog rolled ashore from Lake Ontario, severely limiting on-field visibility and forcing the CFL to suspend play with less than 10 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter (the game resumed the next day, with a Bombers victory). The moisture from the fog interacted with tailpipe emissions and industrial pollution, producing one of the worst smog episodes in Toronto’s history. For three days, heavy smog blanketed the city, exposing Torontonians to unhealthy air and symbolizing a dark period in Canada’s air quality history.
The Davos elites must not be permitted to shift from green-washing to ‘green-hushing’
After years of bragging about their climate policies, multinational businesses and international organisations are now going silent about their sustainability goals. They are no longer green-washing but “green-hushing”. Yet, green targets are bad for business and a terrible way to help the world. These actors shouldn’t just be quieter about them. They should stop this waste.
Perhaps the most blatantly self-defeating attempt to go green was by the fossil fuel industry. Back in 2020, BP made the extraordinary promise to slash oil and gas production by 40 per cent by 2030, boost renewable energy generation twentyfold, and even become a net-zero energy company. Since then, it has performed the worst among big oil, and two CEOs later, BP has now abandoned its green promises and recommitted to fossil fuel. Other big western oil companies are also returning to their roots – while state-owned oil giants like Saudi Aramco, Sinopec, Petrobras and Rosneft never made dramatic green promises in the first place.
Mark Carney wants to implement a European Union Carbon scheme (CBAM) into Canada that would have terrible consequences for Canadian companies & consumers. He is an EU shill trying to shape Canada into its likeness. He is going to increase carbon emission heavy products by 400%… pic.twitter.com/ac6ObwRduu
— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) April 20, 2025
More … 4 of Canada’s biggest banks leave Mark Carney-led climate initiative
Sunning himself in some Spanish spring sunshine, the British Prime Minister is no doubt relieved that the Supreme Court back home has given him some much needed guidance on the biology of a woman. But we must hope his holiday good humour is being disturbed by news that the breezes that will power his new socialist economic miracle went on strike during significant parts of the first quarter. In a colder-than-usual winter, windmill output fell by 11%, pushing up demand for gas and imports and causing a number of unstable and highly expensive price spikes. What dick is in charge at the Department of Energy, he might be asking himself.
While often portrayed both domestically and internationally as an environmental laggard, Canada has some of the cleanest air in the world — better than any other member of the G7 nations — according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Mark Carney and Brookfield recently took a $250 million loan from the People’s Bank of China.
Sam Cooper lays out the timeline of Mark Carney’s disclosed dealings with the CCP. It seems like this might be a conflict of interest.
Full episode premieres everywhere tomorrow, April… pic.twitter.com/VWuJixXMrO
— Jason James (@jasonjamesbnn) April 15, 2025
Given that the federal Liberal government has earmarked more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money to fight climate change, how effective has all that spending been?
The answer is that it has been a financial disaster for Canadians when one considers the primary purpose of the spending, which is to lower Canada’s annual output of industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
Could Liberal leader Mark Carney be more abhorrent?
The answer is yes, even considering Chinese election interference on behalf of the Liberals, his company receiving a $250-million Chinese loan, and new allegations of offshore tax avoidance in the billions.
Carney branded himself a political outsider from the start of his campaign. Is he also an outsider to decency — positioning himself as a special-class citizen above Canada’s growing peasant class?
We are often told by climate campaigners that climate change is especially pernicious because over coming decades it will disproportionately harm the poorest people, both in Canada and the world. But they miss that climate policies are directly hurting the poor right now.
More energy leads to better, healthier, longer lives. Less energy means fewer opportunities. Climate policies demand we pay more for less reliable energy. The impact is greater if you’re poorer: the wealthy might grumble about higher costs but can generally absorb them; the poor are forced to cut back
Canada is perilously close to the greatest electoral disaster in its history. A Liberal victory would commit the country to the deliberate pursuit of comparative poverty to reduce Canada’s minimal contribution to the fear of a rise in the world’s temperature due to carbon use. This is insane and must not happen.
Ahead of the federal election, top executives in Canada’s oil and gas industry say they are pleased to hear support for building new export pipelines from the two leading parties. However, Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s stance on this issue has been branded “inconsistent” and “purposefully vague” by CEOs and leading industry figures.
Canada’s federal election is set for April 28. A Leger poll earlier this week found 52 per cent see Carney’s Liberals winning, compared to 27 per cent favouring Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.
The Trudeau government pushed the carbon tax as the best way to help the environment and reduce emissions.
But it’s clear a carbon tax in Canada wouldn’t be effective at lowering global emissions. That’s because Canada only makes up 1.4 per cent of global emissions, a fact former prime minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged.
“Even if Canada stopped everything tomorrow, and the other countries didn’t have any solutions, it wouldn’t make a big difference,” Trudeau said in 2018.
Carney will be worse.
