Robbing Western farmers to pay for Eastern car batteries
By Gwyn Morgan October 1st marked implementation of the Justin Trudeau government’s 100 percent surtax on imported Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). China has responded with an anti-dumping investigation into Canadian exports of canola – a critical cash crop for Canada’s farmers that is certainly not being sold in international markets for less than its domestic price. China’s move resembles its past economic reprisals. Following Canada’s 2019 detention of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, China retaliated by imprisoning two Canadian citizens and blocking canola imports from major Canadian exporters, costing Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba farmers an estimated $1.5 to...
By Gwyn Morgan October 1st marked implementation of the Justin Trudeau government’s 100 percent surtax on imported Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). China has responded with an anti-dumping investigation into Canadian exports of canola – a critical cash crop for...
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