Carney Stakes Canada’s Auto Future on E.V.s as It Pulls Away From the U.S.

The New York Times ^ | Feb. 5, 2026, 1:30 p.m. ET | Ian Austen

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced on Thursday a sweeping plan to offer billions of dollars in incentives and tax breaks for auto industry investment designed to help turn Canada into a global leader in electric vehicles.

The new policies, Mr. Carney said, were meant to transform Canada’s economy and make it less reliant on a single trade partner after President Trump’s economic assaults and threats on Canada’s sovereignty have frayed relations between the two nations.

“We must take care of ourselves,’’ Mr. Carney told reporters at an auto parts factory in Ontario. “We cannot control what others do.’’

Mr. Trump has inflicted significant pain on Canada’s auto industry — which exports about 90 percent of its vehicles to the United States — by imposing a 25 percent tariff on Canadian vehicles. Mr. Trump has said he does not want cars sold in the United States to be made in Canada and wants to drastically increase domestic production.

Canada applied retaliatory tariffs on American vehicles, but gave exemptions to companies that make cars in Canada. But Mr. Trump’s dismantling of the trade policies that have knitted together the North American auto industry along with his measures targeting electric vehicles has led to a sense of urgency for Canada to look for alternative markets.

Mr. Carney agreed last month to open a crack in Canada’s exclusion of Chinese made electric vehicles through a 100 percent tariff that was introduced to match a similar U.S. measure. Canada will allow a small number of Chinese E.V.’s into the Canadian market at a low tariff rate.

The announcement of the Chinese deal was followed by an agreement between Canada and South Korea that may lead to Korean automakers building Canadian factories for vehicles and batteries. Expanding the presence of...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; China; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: automotive; canada; carney; electric; electriccars; electricvehicles; ev; firetraps; foundonroadfrozen; marxcarnage; redchina; winter; winteriscoming

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Carney Stakes Canada’s Auto Future on E.V.s CHYNA as It Pulls Away From the U.S.

Fixed the title.

[Oystir]

Exactly

[DIRTYSECRET]

You never know. We might end up outside looking in.

1990’s. Japan went analog and we went digital. Not too smart.

[1Old Pro]

Good, maybe he can also buy the windmills that China makes that we have contracted for and don’t want.

[Twotone]

Maybe we can re-home some of our EV buses that don’t work in the winter.

[Captainpaintball]

Why is Mark Carney acting this way? What happened in his life that he would be so anti US?

[1Old Pro]

Maybe we can re-home some of our EV buses that don’t work in the winter.

I have an old 8 track player, perhaps he could revive that tech and I could sell mine to him.

[exinnj]

New York Times, a cacophony of liberal wet dreams. Who the hell cares about cars Canadians drive or produce, besides NYT?

[Jim Noble]

We’re going to need a Special Military Operation before you know it.

54 40 or fight!

[bennowens]

Not a smart move to rely on electric vehicles in the extreme cold environment of Canada.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Dreams of the Global Left to ban petrol to socially engineer for China.

[cgbg]

In other news, Canada’s government told the environmentalists to pound sand—Canada is going to double electricity production in the next twenty years.

Oops, fake news.

The EVs will be charged with Unicorn excrement.

[jpl]

There’s also absolutely no way in hell they’re generating enough electricity up there to meet that kind of demand.

[catnipman]

going all in on EV everything is completely insane for the most fridge sovereign country on the planet ... Carney is nuts, and the people who were stupid enough to elect him deserve everything they’re going to get ... i can’t imagine the disaster this will cause in their northern provinces ....

[butlerweave]

Ordering Canadian companies to do what he says and go out of business .

[Seruzawa]

Lol. Good luck with EVs in frozen Canadistan.

[AndyJackson]

Baby, it’s cold outside.

[fastrock]

Carney’s a globalist, but this is willful malpractice.
US auto industry is bleeding out $billion from their attempt to EV the USA.
PDJT’s auto tariffs have crippled Canadian auto mfg in Ontario. PM Doug Ford is toast at the next election.
UAW will be voting MAGA for the next 20 years.
Unifor will be closing union halls n laying off union staff.
Unifor executives will meet in 5 star resorts w $2million/day consultants to figure out what went wrong!!!
Like I said - willful malpractice

[fastrock]

Canada does, but it will be at the detriment of New England states who get significant electricity from Quebec Hydro.

[Antoninus]

Don’t worry. The way things are going, Canada will be the first 1st World country to be colonized and taken over by the 3rd World. They are a case study in self-loathing.