Charles Burton/The Globe and Mail: The promises never materialized, and Beijing’s mercantilistic regime – which strictly controls the economy to maximize state wealth and power – will never give Canada access to any significant share of China’s internal markets. Beijing sustains its economy with exports, not imports.
So it seems Prime Minister Mark Carney was played earlier this year when he let China export a quota of EVs into Canada under preferential tariffs for several years, in exchange for a nine-month reduction in China’s punitive tariffs on Canadian canola meal…