00:00:00.000This is Conservative leader Pierre Polyev who is of course running for the seat in Battle River
00:00:06.480Crowfoot which is just up the road from me. His by-election is today and he was asked about this
00:00:12.800EV mandate and I wanted us to listen to it together so let's roll it. There's not even
00:00:17.680the electrical infrastructure it would cost 300 billion dollars to put in place the electrical
00:00:25.600charging stations and transmission networks to actually do that which would be thousands of
00:00:31.280dollars of costs in higher taxes and prices for consumers for every single family
00:00:38.080and not only would it eliminate rural communities it would eliminate our auto sector
00:00:44.880wanted to know what you thought about that last part there which i found interesting because of
00:00:49.040course ontario premier doug ford just finished chatting with prime minister mark carney and
00:00:55.280interesting what poly have said there is that this would really hurt canada's auto industry
00:01:01.520there's so much to unpack here when it comes to this mandate saying that you must own a battery
00:01:06.240powered car and they want to phase out a gas and diesel where do you want to go with this
00:01:11.600well it's bad for consumers obviously it's uh we it's going to hit everyone's pocketbooks we can't
00:01:16.640afford and you guys know what the canadian tax periods federation just how serious the
00:01:20.720debt situation is in this country it's far worse than 1997 when we panicked no one knows that yet
00:01:26.320but for the automotive sector it is truly the death knell and you know chris i'm not talking
00:01:30.320through my hat here i served as a media relations officer for toyota canada before i was elected as
00:01:34.080an mp i know what's going to happen when five of the biggest companies plus a six in mercedes is
00:01:39.680now saying we just can't proceed with this kind of uh with this kind of agenda over this timeline
00:01:45.760It seems pretty clear to me that if the auto manufacturers are going to be ignored and consumers are going to be ignored, there really isn't much left for the federal liberals and their friends of the NDP and the bloc to stand on.
00:01:57.560This is a policy that is going to dramatically impact our economic outlook.
00:02:03.340And now with the United States, forget the terrorists, having not gone down the road of EV mandates, 90% of the vehicles that we make in Ontario, I'm looking right now from where I can see the Ford plant smokestacks.
00:02:13.320you know we're not going to be able to sell our vehicles if we all put we have evs america's
00:02:17.780aren't going to buy them anymore and frankly we shouldn't be going that route either you mentioned
00:02:22.520not talking through your hat i just wanted to back up what pierre polyev was saying there in
00:02:26.680his clip he's not talking through his hat either when it comes to the 300 billion dollar price tag
00:02:31.380what he was referencing there was a report that is posted on the government of canada website
00:02:38.140Natural Resources Canada says it's going to cost us upwards of $300 billion with a B to transition over to battery powered vehicles.