British Columbia Turns Its Back On Tesla & Musk

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Final Up to date on: nineteenth March 2025, 06:15 pm

Canada is much like the US in lots of respects. Politically, it’s pretty left of middle within the east and the west whereas being just about proper of middle in between. Proper now, it’s truthful to say that Canadians are fairly pissed off with the so-called US president, who’s thundering obscure threats about annexing Canada and making it the 51st US state. Additionally they are none too happy with Obergrupenführer Elon Musk, who’s the president’s main enabler and promoter of fascist insurance policies, or Tesla, the EV firm he controls. All in all, it’s just like the humorous 1995 film Canadian Bacon starring Alan Alda and John Sweet dropped at life, however with a brand new script straight out of the Mad Max style made well-known by Mel Gibson.

Lloyd Alter lives in Toronto, the place he teaches sustainable structure and writes a weblog on Substack referred to as Carbon Upfront. For greater than a decade, he was the principal author for Treehuggerthe place he contributed greater than 15,000 articles. It’s truthful to say Alter is a social liberal. Not too long ago has has written concerning the consequences for Canadians of the policies put in place by the Moron of Mar-A-Loco. In a latest publish, he wrote,

“Canadians are very critical; some are usually not shopping for merchandise made in Canada for US firms, and are even attempting to keep away from Google…..I’m Insurgent and Hushmail to exchange Gmail, and Sync for cloud storage, however search options are restricted.

“Some industries are getting a boost from all this; I have never seen so many full-page newspaper ads promoting Canadian products and services. Everyone is hopping into the buy Canadian canoe. Many are quitting Amazon Prime. Forgive me for writing about this so much, but we are all rather preoccupied. Readers in the USA continue to tell me that I am over-reacting, it is all just negotiation or the phantom fentanyl. But I do not think the new Liberal leader and next Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is the over-reacting type. I will let him have the last words, from his acceptance speech Sunday night, ‘I know that these are dark days, dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust. We are getting over the shock, but let us never forget the lessons. We have to look after ourselves and we have to look out for each other. We need to pull together in the tough days ahead.’”

Just a few days earlier, Alter quoted from a piece written by Dan Gardner that explores what might lie forward for Canada even when the annexation nonsense is simply the ravings of an fool.

“The shakedowns could be relentless. And we might don’t have any alternative however at hand over no matter was demanded. There could be no different possibility. Oil, essential minerals, Arctic delivery, contemporary water. No matter they need. Image pipelines siphoning Lake Superior and Lake Ontario to fill swimming swimming pools in Las Vegas and Phoenix and irrigate crops in central California. We’d don’t have any alternative however to say sure.

“We could become, in reality if not law, a resource colony of the United States. A land of nothing more than extraction and American military bases. A land with modest control of its domestic affairs, little control over foreign policy, and little or no voice in the Washington halls of power where the most important decisions determining Canada’s fate are made. Think Guam but bigger and colder. I think that is the worst-case scenario.”

British Columbia Lashes Out At Tesla

Final week, British ColumbiaCanada’s westernmost province, moved to exclude government subsidies for individuals who need to set up a Tesla EV charger and residential storage batteries at their houses. As of March 12, 2025, Tesla EV chargers, residential storage batteries, and inverters are now not eligible for rebates the province’s utility firm BC Hydro stated in a discover on its web site. “The Government of BC and BC Hydro are taking action to preference Canadian goods in our rebate programs going forward and to exclude, where practicable, US produced goods,” the discover stated. Merchandise from different US manufacturers like Ford nonetheless gave the impression to be eligible, Bloomberg stated.

The transfer is focused at Tesla’s chief govt officer, high shareholder, and key Trump backer, Elon Musk, in line with BC Premier David Eby. “It’s just for Tesla, and it’s because of Elon Musk,” Eby stated at a press convention. “I think that if British Columbians heard that C$10,000 of taxpayer money was going to Elon Musk, they’d want to throw up, so we removed them from the program.” These rebates can cowl as a lot as 50% of the price of buy and set up of a house charger, in line with the BC Hydro web page. Tesla automobiles weren’t eligible for the province’s rebates for electrical autos as a result of they’re too costly, Eby stated.

No Vancouver Auto Present For You!

So as to add insult to harm, CTV News reviews that Tesla has been summarily faraway from the checklist of exhibitors on the Vancouver Auto Present simply days earlier than the occasion was scheduled to happen this yr. Tesla will now not have a show on the present and all references to it have been faraway from the present’s web site, a transfer that comes because the billionaire faces backlash for his alliance with President Donald Trump amid a commerce conflict between Canada and the US.

“The Vancouver International Auto Show has removed Tesla as a participant in this week’s event, after the automaker was provided multiple opportunities to voluntarily withdraw,” stated Eric Nicholl, the present’s govt director, in a press release. “The Vancouver Auto Show’s primary concern is the safety of attendees, exhibitors, and staff. This decision will ensure all attendees can be solely focused on enjoying the many positive elements of the event.” The annual present will open on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 and proceed by the weekend.

CTV Information says Musk has been a cheerleader for Trump’s threats to annex Canada, writing on his social media platform X that Canada is “not a real country.” A petition to revoke Musk’s Canadian citizenship on the grounds that he has “engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada” and “attacked Canadian sovereignty” has amassed lots of of hundreds of signatures.

Nicholl has cause to be involved concerning the security of those that attend this yr’s present. Final weekend, protests have been staged at Tesla dealerships in B.C. and past. In the meantime, dealerships within the U.S. have been vandalized, with autos set on fireplace in some instances. Musk posted on his private delinquent media platform Tuesday to denounce the vandalism as “domestic terrorism” and to decry the “evil attacks” on his firm. In a now deleted publish he stated, “My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone. So why the hate and violence against me? Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls.” Strategy to fan the flames, Elon. Maybe you don’t know that the US Structure was written by folks stricken with the exact same woke thoughts  virus. Such feedback merely cement his place because the world’s wealthiest jackass.