While the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has inked a trade agreement with China to accept cheap imported vehicles in exchange for Beijing purchasing some agricultural products, President Trump has promised those cheap Chinese EVs will never cross the border into the USA.
The Canadian polling on the issue has done a remarkable chang in the past few years. Now, the majority of Canadians are willing to purchase cheap Chinese EVs. As outlined by Bloomberg, “More than half of Canadians, or 53%, say that knowing an EV was made in China would have no effect on their purchasing decision, according to a new poll by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News.”
Approximately 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles will enter the Canadian market in the first year. “The pact with China includes a provision that part of the quota will be reserved for electric vehicles priced at C$35,000 ($25,700) or less, the government has said.” {SOURCE}
The Canadian government wants a Chinese auto manufacturer, any Chinese auto manufacturer, to build factories in Canada to produce these electric vehicles. Canada wants the jobs and economic activity because Canada is currently bleeding jobs and economic activity due to the trade conflict with the U.S.
Building cheap Chinese EVs in Canada might help offset a few thousand job losses, but building Chinese EVs in Canada only further ensures there will not be a substantive trade agreement between the USA and Canada once the USMCA (CUSMA) is dissolved. [More on that coming]
Meanwhile, Chinese EV company Build Your Dream (BYD) has announced they sold 4.6 million vehicles worldwide last year, far surpassing Tesla and even surpassing all of the Ford global auto manufacturing. BYD is now the sixth largest auto manufacturing company in the world.
[Auto News] […] The 2025 sales figures place BYD at sixth largest among global automakers, meaning Ford slipped to seventh in total global deliveries. Toyota remains the dominant global seller with sales exceeding 10 million units followed by Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor (including Kia and Genesis), General Motors, and Stellantis.
BYD’s sixth position in the global automotive sales index is particularly notable for an auto maker that focuses almost exclusively on new energy vehicles (NEVs) — a category that includes battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs). (more)
CTH previously outlined the specific explosion in BYD auto sales HERE. Europe, Russia, Asia and Australia are flooded with cheap Chinese EVs particularly from the BYD brand. Canada is now opening themselves to face the same issue.
Good luck with those cars in the winter. Wonder what the service and spare parts for those cars will be like.
I thought we were capitalists though? Let the market decide if they’re good
Absolutely. As one of America’s greatest capitalists famously said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Legacy car companies pay China NEV car companies money for climate credits because of green new scam market distorting globalist policies. Legacy car companies are funding their own slow death.
The market can decide after the distortions and bribery are brought to a manageable level.
We are….but go ask the Minnesota and upstate New York school districts that bought into electric school buses how wonderful they are in the dead of winter.
Of course. But you just know this is going to further diminish Canada.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/genius-vermont-spent-millions-electric-buses-that-turned/
Capitalism doesn’t work when you have heavy government subsidies drastically reducing the price of one product. Kinda puts a thumb on the scale don’t ya think.
Cui > it’s not about capitalism. It’s much more than that, see my comment.
They’re chineses made so they are designed to be thrown away, not fixed
Disposable, like everything China makes, including CCP’s mindset of the people.
And pity the fool who finds out how much the disposal of his EV will cost!
100% JUNK — think boat.
Exactly. Hope the seat and steering wheel heater works.
Yep… battery performance tanks in cold weather. Couple that with needing to burn up storage capacity just for heat and range is further impacted.
Further, I dread the stories of how many hi-rise apartment buildings are going to burn down b/c of these things catching ablaze in the middle of the night in parking garages below occupied floors.
I would never put an EV in my garage.
I would have a heat/smoke detector immediately above the lithium batteries for my lawn mower or leaf blower.
Slap a 1,000% tariff on them.
and they wonder why so many of us here in Alberta want to separate from Carney and the eastern idiots??? God help us cause the Liberals won’t.
We would proudly welcome Alberta as it’s own sovereign nation or 51st state.
What do you think of the chances of Saskatchewan or other provinces joining you, and in your opinion would that be a good thing for Alberta? What do you personally feel is the best outcome, and how do you see this playing out?
It might be nice to know exactly what kind of data gathering is built in to the electronic components of each vehicle sold. That’s not a reach for everything China provides to the rest of the world.
Canada is no longer a viable trading partner with the U.S. Carney has completed Trudeau’s destruction.
Servicing and parts? You must be joking. One of the tricks for keeping costs down is that they are not designed to be serviced. They are essentially disposable cars.
JUNK, I agree with you Mountain Man.
YEARS AGO, a distant relative drove a RR. The clock on the dashboard stopped working. When the mechanic at the dealership removed the clock, there was a sticker that read — cannot be repaired, DISPOSE and purchase new clock. Relative was upset and told them for what he paid for the vehicle he ought to have died before the clock! BTW, the clock was made — GUESS?
Unfortunately, there will be regime change and BYD will be here. Those BYD vehicles are rolling Google cars we have all seen, minus the revolving sphere. If your neighbor has one you will get one, eventually. Canadians should not be able to cross the border with a Chinese EV… A pox on the Kissinger and Nixon family.
There will be no democrat regime. But thanks for your concern…
When Trump is gone, they will find their way across the border.
Kissinger and Nixon family.
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Building them in Canada is one thing, Selling them is another. 1000 jobs still won’t allow bulk of people in Canada to purchase electric vehicles in Canada. I see this as eventually fizzling out for them when people in Canada have purchased all the vehicles they can afford an not being able to ship them to other countries economically.
Just like China does at home, they will heavily subsidize the selling price of the vehicles with all the cash they get from stupid companies selling carbon credits. Dumping 101. It’s what China does best.
Yeah, sure. Lose money on every car and make it up on volume. People need to wake up and realize we are competing against a world where the people work hard, and companies are working smart. Our young kids coming up in the workforce can barely read at 8th grade level! And, incredibly, they want to stand around and play on their phones instead of work. No country has ever heavily subsidized like the good ol’ USA. Trillions spent every year, and where does it go? Businesses of all sizes and description are on the Govt. dole, as well as NGO’s and you name it, the Feds will subsidize it. It’s pathetic that we can’t see the Beam that is our own eye, but we can see the sliver in others.
[see Australia]
Very true, there is quite a business importing used Canadian vehicles into US, Ford, Chrysler and GM.
It gets *mighty* cold in Canada. Should get interesting.
I think the Canadians should stop eating that yellow snow.
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This is a predictable move from Carney, but it’s based on feeeeeeelings. We can expect prideful, myopic Canada to be in ruins by this time next year. If we annex Canada, that would put a stop to both the Chinese and UK nonsense. Let those idiots go be communist parasites together, while we keep Canada and make her great again.
Canada’s populace will soon be in extremis withdrawal from lack of other people’s money.
Addicts have to hit rock bottom and desire change to make a meaningful change. Canada has a ways to go to want change.
(IMHO).
When we hear Canadian’s calling for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s head on a pike then perhaps the lesson will have been learned.
Time to send a message to Carneyval …. “Dali” the Gordie Howe.
So much for free market. Get used to this, they say the gov will merge as public private partnerships. No more startups that boat has sailed. There will be monopolies in every sector. Thanks a lot Trump.
You’re trying too hard this morning.
Yes they are.
Anchors away…the rudderless Doom boat has set sail. We have to start calling out these so called conservative doomers in a very big way!
I didn’t see your post before I chimed in, Barb. Looks like we’re on the same tack (sarc). BTW, you have the perfect post name!
Thank you for the laughter!!!
Read about the doomers in the link below.. The author J.R. Dunn understands it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/02/shutting_the_doom_trolls_down.html
[…] and we don’t have to look far for evidence. Throughout the 2024 campaign the predictions rolled out, not from NeverTrumpers, who had faded into nullity, but from the doom trolls within MAGA itself: it was hopeless. Trump was finished.
…Trump’s overwhelming victory in November shut the doom trolls down. But not for long. Today they’re back, spouting the same drivel about the midterms: It’s hopeless. The Dems can’t possibly lose. Trump will be impeached, and MAGA supporters hunted down in the streets.
It’s all organized Psy Op bull shit!
OTOH, the start-up opportunities for boat builders to meet the demand for sailing on the tears of snowflakes with TDS over this issue are going to explode! Not to mention the increased psychiatric services and pharma product demand for those same snowflakes. There’s just a couple of free market investment opportunities for you right there. Looks like another win-win. Thank you, PDJT!
Just ask yourself – “Is the nightmare black, or are the windows painted“? MAGA
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Put the crack pipe down Doomer.
The business and government merge (fascism in the reverse classical Mussolini sense) started with Obama and ended with Trump. Perhaps you missed his messages to the Davos (WEF)-Fascist crowd.
Can’t fix stupid. Can’t.
Choices have consequences.
Gavin Newsom should step in to annex Canada to California, at the very least sign a theee-way trade treaty with Canada and China.
Three-way, yup, califoricate
But who will think of the Chinese electricity production and consumption and do they supply cheap electricity to run them on?
I wonder what the percentage of “cheap EVs” in the quota is? 5%?, 10%?, 50%? And will those all be purchased by the Canadian government for its use? <chuckle>
And what percentage of overall vehicle ownership in Canada would 50,000 Chinese NEVs/BEVs/PHEVs per year account for?
(Okay, I looked it up–Canada has approximately 24,549,00 registered ‘light weight’ vehicles( cars, suvs, pickup trucks). 14.6% or 3,584,154 of those are EVs. So 50,000 BYD Chinese vehicles would represent .02% of total and 1.39% of EVs. If they last 5 years that would mean .10% of total vehicles and 6.95% of EVs.)
And 50,000 vehicles out of BYD brand worldwide sales of 4,600,000 would equal only about 1.08% of sales per year. I wonder what percentage of Canada’s agricultural export deal represent China’s canola or whatever purchases?
I also wonder what the ratio of Chinese to Canadian workers will be in the auto plants they want to build in Canada along with the percentage of the profit split margin(if there is a profit) for each country?
As long as I am in a ‘wondering’ mode <grins>…Wonder which provinces Ottawa plans on using for all the toxic battery and plastics landfills?
And does Canada have the energy production and distribution systems to power all these cars and auto assembly plants?
Will the “wonders” never cease? Good points and questions all, Paprika!
Aw shucks, Thank you kind sir.
Canadian trash is considered a ‘commodity’. Their trash is brought into the US and fills massive landfills.
What a great arrangement. The United States sends Canada jobs and in return, we take their garbage.
Concealed in Canadian trash haulers, toxic chemicals, drugs and dead bodies. Soon EVs.
Well, that ‘stunks’!
BYD batteries have a designed/engineered minimum life of 600k+ miles. BYD vehicles sold in China don’t have a mileage limit on warranties. The original purchaser gets a lifetime warranty on the battery and drive train, with a yearly limit of 18k miles driven (30k km). But as long as the original purchaser owns the car, the battery is under warranty for full replacement in case of defect or fault.
There aren’t going to be battery landfills. They last and last and last. And when they do die, they are 100% recycleable. They’ll get remade into new batteries.
Chinese battery tech is generally far, far ahead of U.S. battery tech (even Tesla).
Can you please stop using facts and just stick to the China bashing so you can get some the thumbs up?
Thanks for that information! I’ll have to research that angle a wee bit more.
And yes, every western electrical grid as the capacity to have every household have an EV with no upgrades at all to the current grid. EVs help balance the load between peaks and troughs, generally being charged overnight.
A far bigger issue for electrical grids are AI data centers.
Not sure I can agree with you on this post, except the last sentence.
It’s true. The only time public charging is used is on road trips.
Home charging will draw a maximum of about 11 kW on a level 2 charger at home. That is sufficient to recharge even the largest EV batteries overnight. For the average owner, it will recharge even in inefficient EV’s daily mileage use in about an hour and a half. Most drivers only use about 15 kWh per day. Pulling just 3 kW is more than sufficient to recharge that 15 kWh of daily use in 6 hours.
11 kW is not a ton of juice. A central air conditioner pulls about 3 kW. An electric oven is about 2.5 kW. A toaster pulls about 1.8 kW. A microwave pulls up to 1.7 kW. An electric clothes dryer can pull ~4 kW.
A normal residence has a daily peak load on the grid of ~15 kW. It also has a daily minimum load of less than 1 kW. Adding anywhere from 3-7 kW of use in off-peak teams won’t hit the daily peak, and the power grid can handle daily peaks, for everyone simultaneously, now. Even pulling the full 11 kW at max charge speed in off-peak times will still not typically hit normal daily peak draw. Ergo, the current grid can handle every household having an EV and charging overnight.
But again, most people don’t need that fast of a charging rate overnight. Not even close. And having a consisent overnight draw of between 3-7 kW during off-peak times, where the power grid curve is in a trough, does help smooth out the difference between highs and lows of the grid demand. Power plants can only be dialed back so far before they have to be shut off, and once they are shut off it may take days or weeks to spin them back up. They also can only handle a load up to a given point, at which time you need to spin up another source.
This is why so many utilities are moving to demand and peak demand billing. Managing the wide range of grid use is difficult and expensive. When you hit peak loads, you have to be able to spin up additional generation very quickly, and those “peaker” plants are very expensive.
And 85%+ of EV charging takes place at home, overnight. It is actually probably higher than that, but I can’t find any figures that demonstrate it. You plug your car in when you get home. It is ready to go in the morning when you are. There’s no reason to ever stop at a charger unless you’re on a long-distance road trip.
Even when using superchargers on the road, however, the draw on the grid is minimal. They’re all set up (or usually are) with massive batteries that are what your car draws from as it recharges. The batteries draw from the grid at a slower, sustained draw, and discharge in bursts when recharging cars. It isn’t a massive burst draw on the grid. I can’t speak to every possible charger and every possible company that has a charger out there, but literally every single one I’ve been to, including on road trips in my car, is set up this way. They’re starting to have canopies to shield from weather, too, with solar panels on top to further minimize/eliminate grid draw.
Everything about EVs is very, very grid friendly. It isn’t an exageration to say that the current grid can easily handle one EV per household for every household in America and not need upgrades. Easily. The entire FUD over EVs is generally complete nonsense.
So where do the thousands/millions that have to park on the street plug in?
A better way to do a comparison is in new vehicle sales. That 50k figure represents about 2.5% of yearly car sales in Canada, and about 50% of its non-hybrid EV sales.
Have you got some links to your sources so I can delve into this further?
Meanwhile in other news …
Ford loses $11.6 billion after EV U-turn
Ford’s decision to cancel multiple EV plans has resulted in one of its worst financial losses in history, and more pain is on the way.
Ford loses $11.6 billion after EV U-turn – Torquecafe.com
That’s what happens when you try to sell a product no one wants.
… and the government cancels their(our) generous subsidies.
If Ford was able to sell a nice family car in the USA that was an EV for about $10,000 you think nobody would want one? The problem is, Ford can’t but the Chinese can.
Ford isn’t quitting EVs.
They’re doubling down. More accurately, they’re pivoting.
Ford is going all-in on EVs, copying everything Tesla is doing (except self-driving). They hired away a bunch of Tesla folk to help them turn their EV production around.
Ford has already determined the future is EVs. Their initial foray didn’t work, and they had to scrap it all. They recognized it was never going to be profitable. Now, after completely re-engineering the entire Ford process, they’re gambling the entire company on EVs. They (correctly) believe that in a generation the combustion engine will be all be extinct, and they either move to the new market or the Chinese auto manufacturers will own the global market.
Here is Ford’s unveiling of their universal product platform going forward, (posted today):
Jim Farley needs to go; like last week. He is destroying the Ford Motor company.
“ knowing an EV was made in China would have no effect on their purchasing decision”
It has no effect on my decision either. I don’t want an EV, and I’d bet neither do our northern neighbors who brave sub-zero temps every year.
That said, the EV’s on the roads in the US are already substantially China. They’re already here.
I own a refrigerator. I don’t need another appliance that doesn’t even keep beer cold.
Knowing where an electric vehicle is made has no impact on someone who is never going to buy one. The correct answer for most of the population is always going to be “no impact on likelihood”
Any car guy/gal who knows the frustration (dread?) of buying, installing, uninstalling, returning, buying again and installing again (repeat as necessary) cheap Chinese car parts would NEVER consider buying a car made exclusively from cheap Chinese car parts.
Yeah, I only want to do that stuff with my Made in Mexico car parts! (sarc) – Sorry, Josh. I couldn’t leave that low hanging fruit alone.
That’s a awfully long extension cord
Lithium ion batteries and the Great White North…what could possibly go wrong?
We have owned a Chevy Volt (AFAIK) the first PIH in the US and it’s a great car.
However battery range is about half in winter and that is with the engine assisted heating. Pure battery would be a shot ride.
Canada does have huge hydroelectric potential so we might call them dammed cars.
Carney is a fool. China will bring their own chinese slaves with them to manufacture in canada.
Exactly. At least for the higher paying executive and supervisory roles-just like they have done in Africa.
For all we know they might already be there :/
Canadians are polite people who trend liberal and trust government way too much. It’s past time to blindly follow the EU globalist agenda and start taking care of their own country. Getting close with China and separating further from the US will end very badly on many fronts for them.
“the issue has done a remarkable chang”
Was that intentional or a Freudian slip? 😂
Sumting wong?
I’d be interested in Consumer Reports getting their hands on a couple of these and seeing how they hold up to CR’s usual standards.
After all the experience we’ve lived through with cheap Chinese products, I can’t imagine putting my life at risk in a cheap Chinese EV. And what about those Canadian winters? This is nuts.
Remember the YUGO! It has finally met it’s competition.
Hahaha!
When you have a Yugo –
You
Don’t
Go
I knew a guy who bought 2 of them back in about 85-86ish. Literally junk within weeks.
Remember the Toyota Corona in 1968! Who would buy one of those Cheap Jap Cars? Nobody, thats who. (Except the people who bought them, that is.) Well, well, turns out that cheap Jap Junk is at the top of the heap in world wide car sales, according to Sundance.
Do I own anything made in China that I value? …….
Are the spy devices optional on these battery operated Chinese made things?
The iPhone lol
Good luck getting any Chinese factory built in Canada. Salaries and unions donchknow.
Not a problem. Canada has lots of landfill space available for that Chinese junk. They will need it.
Glorified golf carts.
I have an electric golf cart.
The furthest I drive it is about 4 to 8 miles, max, at about 15 mph.
BYD now builds over 4.5 million vehicles a year.
They’re all disposable.
Electric motors can last a long time, but batteries don’t.
Most of Canada gets mighty cold in the long winter up north.
Batteries don’t do well in the cold.
These vehicles will be
Albatrosses around their owners’ necks.
City commuters may buy them.
Country folk not so much.
Good luck for city folk finding a place to plug it in overnight if they rent an apartment.
The same attitude Cat and John Deere had about the Cheap Jap excavators that came in here in the 80’s. They are junk, never last, who cares if they cost half as much. I ran one in 84′, and they put the American iron to shame. In fact, Cat and JD don’t manufacture excavators here anymore, they are all built by Mitsubishi and Hitachi. Wake up and smell the Coffee America!
Knowing an EV was made in China would have no effect on my purchasing decision. All I need to know is that it is an EV. Then I won’t buy it.
EVs can be a good thing in limited places but where it is cold not much….
and most of those EV sales come directly from China buying them………
What EV sales are you talking about? China exports EVs why would they buy them from Canada at a more expensive labor/environmental controls cost?
We should be very concerned about what happens Post-Trump.
Plenty in Congress are unhappy with the trade dispute with Canada, and will reverse the trade rules at the first opportunity, depending on who’s in the White House.
We’re in a reprieve right now, but these are perilous times.
NB: Nik Nanos is the ultimate narrative engineer pollster bought and paid for by the Libs. I feel his question was carefully framed to be about an EV buying decision – in other words, if one was choosing to buy an EV, would it matter if it was made in China? TDS-suffering and typically leftist potential EV buyers have a dilemma now as they can’t choose Tesla any more because they think Elon is MAGA, and now they’re coming to learn that they might have to choose a US-made EV at the moment. 😱
But overall, Canadians aren’t embracing EVs because, as others have said, they don’t work so well for long distance driving, worse in cold climates. Plus we don’t have anywhere close to the grid power or charging infrastructure required.
Here’s the government data for 2025 for ZEVs market share in Canada:
Q1: 9.7% Q2: 9.2% Q3: 10.4% Q4: 9.8% Not exactly exploding. 😉
I should add that Brookfield is heavily invested in EVs, from power generation through transmission to delivery at charging points, as well as EV batteries and other components. Plus of course in Carbon Credits, Carbon capture etc. And like Carney, Brookfield is thoroughly intertwined with the CCP. So all 3 parties stand to make huge financial gains by driving or forcing EV adoption.
Thank you, Sundance, for keeping us up to date!
Maybe Pete Buttigieg can assist Canada on all the EV charging stations they’re gonna need now.
I wonder how often they need repair
The Canadian government wants a Chinese auto manufacturer, any Chinese auto manufacturer, to build factories in Canada to produce these electric vehicles.
And China needs the factories in China for their employment problems. Perhaps a compromise would be to build them in China but let the Canadians put the tires on.
Good luck with cheap batteries that ignite unexpectedly and someone in Vietnam tracking the car forgets to unlock the doors before he/she/it goes to the restroom.
Guess they haven’t figured out that BYD stand for Burn Your (house/garage/shop/apartment building) Down yet!
Oh, Canada! Start raising dogs who attach to a sled.
Ah, well. At least when it’s cold and they don’t run, they can be relied on to catch fire.
Give a man a hot meal and he’ll be warm for an hour. Give a man a BYD and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Its not about the cars for the CCP its about the deindustrialization of all the countries that allow it. Plus each car is gathering information for the CCP. They are supporting their own destruction. Idiots!
It will be interesting to see if Canada has any safety standards for imports that turn into restrictions because the Red Chinese EVs can’t stop exploding or burning.
Throw-a-way cars. I can see the graveyards of pollution, seeping into ground and water supplies. All in the name of climate change.
They’ll be warming up alright! Especially when their houses and
parking garages burn to the ground all over the country!
Sundance is a bit premature in his conclusions. How many Canadians agree with me? I will NEVER buy and EV, no matter where it is made. THEREFORE, I don’t care if an EVE is Chinese or not, I won’t buy one.
How many Canadians answered the survey using my approach? How many, and how fast they sell will answer whether Canadians are stupid enough to buy a summer only car, no matter where it is made
Long time knowing battery’s don’t like low temperatures, do your home work.