🇨🇦 Ottawa declares a golf trolley an EV

A six-person Canadian company gets slapped with a $178,000 bill because Ottawa decided a three-wheeled golf caddy is basically a Chinese car. That is not trade policy, that is bureaucratic cosplay. CBSA used dictionary definitions to classify Joseph McLuckie’s electric golf trolley as a motor vehicle, triggering the 100 per cent China EV surtax during that 17-month tantrum, as reported.

This is the Trudeau-Carney state in miniature: preach support for small business, then drown it in ideological tariff theater and administrative sludge. The same crowd that opened the gates to cheap labour and dependency now suddenly discovers economic nationalism when it can crush a domestic importer with six employees. Finance passes the buck, CBSA hides behind wording, and an MP goes missing. Sovereignty is not having a government that parrots global trade postures while treating its own citizens like collateral damage. It is protecting Canadians first, not feeding a bloated machine that cannot tell a golf bag trolley from an automobile.

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