Biden's Ottawa envoy ridicules 'noise in Canada'

But Cohen said Wednesday that there was no threat because Canada's electric vehicle industry was just coming into existence. The ambassador said his response to Canadians went something like this: "I'm struggling to understand how the inapplicability of a tax credit to a segment of your industry that currently produces no vehicles that are eligible to it is an existential threat to the entire Canadian economy." Freeland's office responded to Cohen's comment Wednesday night by pointing POLITICO to a quote from a speech she delivered in Washington last month. "You need us as much as we need you," she said…