China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles, that country’s ambassador says.
  • nutpantz@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    if canada opened up reasonable access to its market for china. that would make trump and the US not think of canada as its little bitch. threaten the US with loss of its market in canada to china and they will not think we are their only option. china is opening a huge car factory in mexico, get that for canada.
    even just talking to china about it would give us leverage in talks to the USA

    • CannonFodder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Rocking the boat with trump is only asking for more problems. I don’t think we should give in to their stupid demands, but we also shouldn’t be purposely provocative.
      We tried getting China to build their EVs here and they wouldn’t agree. They would only do it if they were to be staffed by Chinese nationals that stayed in the facility - ie not providing any Canadian jobs.
      On top of this, China wants our canola - they collect tariffs, but that just goes around in a circle in their communist system, it doesn’t stop them buying our stuff.