“Madam Chair, the Canadian auto sector is in serious crisis. We are facing thousands of job losses, and really that is a result of the U.S. tariffs and, frankly, a disastrous strategic policy by this Liberal government. If I look at 2020 to 2024, when the finance minister was, in fact, the industry minister, he signed off on up to $52 billion with Ontario for electric vehicle subsidies to artificially manufacture an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada. He made very big promises that this was going to deliver huge returns for Canada, yet many of those projects have failed to deliver. In fact, we have seen thousands of job losses because of the failure of those projects to go forward. Can the minister admit that his electric vehicle strategy has been a failure?”
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Madam Chair, Positioning · 16 wordsI would think it is exactly the opposite.I think electrification is still our north star.PositioningVague promiseClaims · 30 wordsLet me just remind my colleague that when Tesla started business, it took 17 years to be profitable.1When the Model T Ford was introduced, it was not a success.2Reasoning · 54 wordsWhen we have been doing the same thing for 100 years with internal combustion engines and we switch technology after a century, it is quite normal that we have adjustment of technology, of consumer habits and of markets, and the position that has been taken by our neighbour to the south has affected this.Claims · 12 wordsWe have seen delays in most of the projects in the G7, Positioning · 23 wordsbut I still believe in investing in the electric stack and in making sure that we have the ecosystem to build a car—PositioningVague promise
