Ottawa must not abandon electric vehicles to align with Washington

Chris Severson-Baker is the Pembina Institute’s executive director and Adam Thorn isthe think tank’s director of transportation. U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to hike auto tariffs and rip key parts of the sector out of Canada puts more pressure on Ottawa to align Canadian auto policy with Washington. What does alignment look like? It is what Canada has been doing recently: sidelining electric vehicles and favouring production of conventional cars. Canada must resist. Ottawa can’t stop Washington from trying to reshape the North American auto industry around the U.S., but it can decide whether to make itself more dependent…