Good EV plan, Canada. The risk now lies in execution

Romel Mostafa is an assistant professor of business, economics and public policy, and director of the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management, at the Ivey Business School at Western University. Gal Raz is an associate professor of operations management and sustainability at Ivey Business School. Canada’s new auto strategy, unveiled on Thursday, marks a quiet but consequential shift in how Ottawa thinks about electric vehicles, with the federal government returning to the fundamentals that can potentially drive adoption, investment and competitiveness. The risk now lies less in direction than in execution. A key pillar of the Prime Minister’s new…