CANADA: Conservative Leader Wants Tarriffs On Chinese EVs

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Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre has added his voice to those calling on Canada's federal government to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and associated parts.

Pres. Joe Biden announced in May that the U.S. would be imposing a new 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). Washington is also imposing tariffs on Chinese-made advanced batteries, solar cells, steel and aluminium used for EVs.

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#CANADA: Conservative Leader, Western Premiers, Condemns Justice Minister Over Provincial Resources Statement

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and three western premiers are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to disassociate his government from comments made by his justice minister — who promised last week to "look at" a decades-old law that gives control over natural resources to the four western provinces.

"The federal government cannot unilaterally change the Constitution," the premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba said in a joint statement Tuesday. "It should not even be considering stripping resource rights away from the three Prairie provinces.

Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Justice Minister David Lametti of threatening to overturn the Constitution and take federal control over provincial resources.

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#CANADA: Quebec MP Leaves Conservatives Over New Party Leader's "Leadership Style"

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Alain Rayes, the MP for the Quebec riding of Richmond–Arthabaska, said Tuesday he is leaving the Conservative Party to sit as an Independent. Rayes cited a clash of values with new conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre's leadership style. 

Rayes had backed Jean Charest in the leadership contest that ended last week. Charest came in a distant second in the contest.

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#CANADA: Federal Conservatives Choose Pierre Poilievre to Lead Them

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Canada’s Conservative Party has chosen a populist career politician to be its next leader, betting on Pierre Poilievre to take on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Liberals after a series of electoral defeats.

Poilievre’s victory was a foregone conclusion for months, as most opinion polls ahead of the party convention on Saturday night showed his firebrand political rhetoric resonated with members – and gave him a comfortable lead over his closest rival, the more centrist Jean Charest.

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#CANADA: Raucous First Conservative Party Leadership Debate

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The early days of the Conservative leadership campaign have featured top-tier candidates declaring each other unfit to lead, exclusionary and untruthful, so you had to wonder what would happen when they were asked to debate face-to-face. Insults? Badgering? Accusations?

Yes, yes and yes. Two things rang out through the 90-minute debate: posturing about truckers’ convoys and nasty exchanges.

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Poilievre Calls out Media Coverage Of Trucker Convoy

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Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre blasted the “liberal media” for generalizing the Truckers For Freedom convoy as extremists, based on a small number of individuals who have attached themselves to the convoy instead of focusing on the broad issues opposed by the group. 

Upwards of 500,000 truckers from across the country headed towards the national capital of Ottawa this past weekend to protest vaccine mandates and lockdowns.

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Conservatives Amend Election Reform Act to Respond to Critics [world politics news]

Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre