• xep
      link
      fedilink
      712 hours ago

      You generally don’t want to incentivize the practice of dumping since its goal is putting competition out of business.

      • @Crankenstein@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        47 hours ago

        Don’t really care about the competition. I care about having cheap access to EVs. If the competition can’t compete, then fuck em. That’s not my problem.

        • xep
          link
          fedilink
          77 hours ago

          EVs won’t be cheap for long if there’s no competition.

          • @whyrat@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            14 hours ago

            Is there any domestically produced competition in Canada? The only one a search returns is still a concept (not yet commercially available). Everything else looks to be imported from elsewhere?

      • HellsBelle
        link
        fedilink
        English
        29 hours ago

        Canada doesn’t really have its own automaker. We do have American subsidiaries of Ford, etc. and if they’re gonna go under we’ll deal with that when it happens.

    • @Vopyr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      6
      edit-2
      47 minutes ago

      I don’t think Canada needs poorly made and barely working Chinese crap.

      Update: Hey, if you want to buy something Chinese, then go ahead, I can’t stop you, but even if these products are not badly made, remember that you are supporting the Chinese regime (and probably Russia) by your actions, so don’t pretend to be good and caring people later.

        • @Vopyr@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          2
          edit-2
          7 hours ago

          Questionable, my aunt bought a bunch of Chinese crap, and it’s all badly made and barely fulfills its functions. For example, the kettle has a handle that barely holds and is constantly wobbly, the meat grinder has a blade so blunt that it doesn’t even cut… meat, and so on.

          Also, these things were probably made by slaves (and some of them, like phones, may be spyware), so…