https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/mcteague-mark-carneys-ev-bait-and-switch/70997
As usual the “elbow uppers” have no idea that Carney sucker-punched them… again.
“Let me be blunt: Regulations that demand a 75% emissions cut on cars sold in Canada are the same thing as an EV mandate. There is essentially no difference.

But Carney is making it even worse — proposing spending a massive amount of public money on subsidizing the EV industry in several ways.

First, he is reinstating the federal EV purchase rebate — effectively a subsidy for the wealthy, as they are the people who can afford the luxury of an EV. This means thousands of taxpayer dollars per vehicle.

Second, he wants to spend $1.5 billion of our tax dollars to build up the EV charging network, on top of the $1.2 billion the government has allocated to building charging stations over the past ten years. For the record, money spent to date has bought us roughly 36,000 stations, well short of the 450,000 Natural Resources Canada estimates that we would need to service an all-EV fleet by 2035.

Third, he announced a further $3 billion, “to help the auto industry adapt, grow, and diversify to new markets." Translation — to give car companies money to help them keep their plants open in Canada while they figure out how to get out of the corner we’ve painted them into.

This is becoming a characteristic play for Mr. Carney. The public starts to notice that one of his policies is making our lives harder, and he responds by rearranging the deck chairs, in the hopes that we will forget, for a little while at least, that his ship is steaming towards an iceberg.

As with the carbon tax, he heard our complaints, and he did whatever he could to keep the old policy in place while making it harder to see it.

“Sure, your cost of living is way up, but it can’t be the consumer carbon tax, because I cancelled it!”

“Sure, there are no gasoline powered cars which can legally be sold in Canada, but the moment someone invents one, we’ll consider letting you buy it!”

It’s a cynical move.
Make sure you don’t fall for it.

… “the Prime Minister announced that he was replacing the EV mandate with a 75% tailpipe emissions reduction target by 2035 and an aspirational 90% reduction by 2040.

Now, this might sound much better initially. “Wow, instead of banning the sale of gas cars, Mark Carney is going to reduce their carbon footprint!”

Except a policy target for emissions reductions doesn’t equate to emissions reductions — that takes technological change, fleet changes, time, and money.
Which really means that in 2035 — less than 10 years from today — when the only vehicles which conform to this standard are EVs, then, well, that’s all you will be able to buy.”

Dan McTeague is President of Canadians for Affordable Energy.”