🇨🇦 Carney trades Canadian auto jobs for canola access — with Beijing's blessing

Prime Minister Mark Carney just handed 49,000 Chinese EVs market access in exchange for lower tariffs on canola and seafood. Brian Kingston of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association calls it a massive risk — Chinese workers earn $2–4 USD per hour versus $45 for unionized Canadian plants. Even Michael Kovrig, who spent 1,000 days in a Chinese prison, testified that deeper entanglement with Beijing is a dead end. But Carney's selling it as affordable EVs for Canadians.

This isn't trade policy — it's industrial surrender dressed up as climate virtue. Ottawa undermines North American integration, kneecaps domestic manufacturing, and deepens reliance on a hostile regime that already proved it takes hostages. All so Liberal strategists can claim they delivered cheap cars and stood up to Trump. The auto sector gets gutted while Beijing笑 all the way to the market.

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