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“We’re going against our own Canadian values.”

A tense moment in Ottawa as a witness for Clean Energy Canada is pushed to explain why we should allow Chinese EVs into our market despite major human rights concerns. If the “economic choice” relies on forced labour, is it even a choice at least some Canadians are willing to make?

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    10 hours ago

    I’m sure that there is an American auto company’s PR arm clinging to the bottom of the rock and hoping that it can scuttle away before anyone flips it over.

    (Seriously, anything with a screen in it likely has some parts that were made by Chinese forced labour, including whatever device you’re reading this on.)

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        8 hours ago

        If it has a screen in it, it also contains basic electronic components—capacitors, resistors, diodes, etc. And unless something’s changed in the last few years, those are mostly made in China.