🇨🇦 Ottawa declares golf trolleys to be EVs, then sends the bill
A six-person Ontario company gets slapped with a $500,000 retroactive tax bill because Ottawa decided a motorized golf push cart is basically a Chinese electric vehicle. JPSMGolf already got hit for $178,000. This is the genius of the Carney-Trudeau state: preach support for small business, then weaponize customs bureaucracy until a golf buggy becomes an SUV on paper, as reported.
CBSA says its hands are tied, Finance Canada is unavailable, and the appeal process demands companies pay first or post a bond before pleading for mercy. Very rules-based, very modern, very globalist: punish actual Canadians to posture about China while protecting the sacred tariff regime. And notice the pattern: government incompetence is never cheap, never temporary, and never paid by the people who caused it. A country that cannot distinguish between a golf caddy cart and an EV is not serious about industry, trade, or sovereignty. It is serious about paperwork, revenue extraction, and crushing whatever productive class still remains.
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