Wyatt Claypool reacts to Mark Carney's announcement that the Canadian government will be rolling back the country's EV mandate, and why it's a good thing it's not Donald Trump's fault that it's happening.
00:07:10.680You're seeing new models introduced every single month.
00:07:14.300Let's get at those barriers and you will see higher adoption rates.
00:07:17.780I think the idea that you somehow need to mandate it, in fact, will actually have the opposite effect.
00:07:22.480If there's one thing we know is that people don't like to be told by government what to do or what to drive.
00:07:27.560So let's help them with the transition, not force it.
00:07:29.800But I disagree with this whole help the transition thing.
00:07:32.900But I think that's more so just PR nonsense.
00:07:35.440But again, these people would not be saying this pre the mandate being removed.
00:07:39.840Only after the mandate is removed has Carney given these organizations the social mandate to say, well, yeah, actually, you know, supply and demand still matters.
00:07:50.840And people do not demand these vehicles despite the supply being there.
00:07:55.980Now, I just want to move on to what the liberals have been doing in the media since this has been happening, because at the same time that Mark Carney was removing the EV mandate, which let's be clear, that was the real news yesterday.
00:08:13.400There was nothing else more important than that.
00:08:15.960What the liberals were tweeting out about was Mark Carney says, Canada's new government will buy Canadian to build Canadian.
00:08:24.420They really got to stop saying the new government moniker because it's almost just a mockery of the fact that they're like the last guys entirely.
00:08:33.060But he's like talking about how they're launching their buy Canadian push in response to Trump tariffs.
00:08:40.200Prime Minister seeks to diversify the economy as U.S. measures hit lumber and manufacturing sectors.
00:08:45.960Again, this has nothing to the the real story yesterday was the EV mandate pause, because if you're actually trying to fight back against tariffs and you're trying to have our auto industry not sink into the sea,
00:09:00.020well, then what you want is to get rid of the EV mandate.
00:09:04.020But we're going to pretend like everything.
00:09:06.080The only important thing was the buy Canadian initiative, because it sounds nice.
00:09:10.120Mark Carney here says, Canada's new government is building big things with Canadian materials.
00:09:15.660We're introducing a buy Canadian policy.
00:09:18.640This is no longer only a best effort to support Canadian industry.
00:09:22.100When it comes to federal contracts, it will be a clear obligation.
00:09:25.640OK, so we're going to spend even more Canadian taxpayer dollars at times when we could, in fact, be getting something cheaper overseas.
00:09:33.260And I don't want to buy stuff from China as a general rule.
00:09:37.500But like at the time on the economy, when we have a ninety two billion dollar deficit, you know, we might want to consider trying to just get whatever is cheaper.
00:10:07.240Then Mark Carney says, today we've launched a major new initiative for workers and businesses and sectors most impacted by tariffs.
00:10:14.920As we transform our economy to be more resilient, we're making sure workers and industries have the tools to drive the transformation and thrive in it.
00:10:31.100But I love that we're still keeping around the same language that the liberals would usually talk about stuff like trying to get people to drive EVs.
00:10:38.980But now it's talking about like just government subsidies.
00:10:42.280Only the Canadian government would try and characterize subsidies as like a dynamic economic policy.
00:10:50.280Anyways, I, again, going back to this gator gun person and when you actually, the person can actually get like thousands and thousands of likes on a lot of their posts.
00:10:58.840But I like accounts like this because of what represents what the street level liberal thinks.
00:11:05.380First, breaking, Prime Minister Mark Carney has rolled out a series of measures that he says will transform Canada's economy into a force that can withstand the trade shocks of the Trump administration.
00:11:16.060CBC reporting, this won't bring the brokenness out at all.
00:11:21.700And they're like, I guess because it's like, oh, he did something good.
00:11:24.920But the people who think Canada's broken are going to complain anyways.
00:11:29.500I highly doubt this person even knows what happened.
00:11:46.600But that should be it for this video, guys.
00:11:48.600I'm actually about to film something about the new Angus Reid poll that's out because, goodness, it is actually kind of shocking just how much Mark Carney is falling into the dumps right now in terms of his personal approval.
00:12:04.020But the fact that he's only five months in and he's fighting to stay above, to stay in the positive approval ratings is absolutely ridiculous.
00:12:13.240He should be having a very easy time staying popular for like a year and a half.
00:12:17.660But the thing is that he's been fumbling every single ball thrown to him every single time he tries to do some new initiative.
00:12:28.860We have a Major Projects Act gets passed.
00:12:32.640And then all we do within 170 days of him being prime minister is we announce the opening of the Office of Major Projects.
00:12:41.040We don't even need a Major Projects office.
00:12:45.700How about we just rubber stamp a bunch of projects so that if a company wants to take it up, they're already free and clear to have the whole thing fast-tracked.
00:12:55.240But anyways, with that being said, thank you guys for watching.