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By riling up I mean the predictable rage that it’s meant to elicit : “convert 100% of new cars to EV in 4 years when we don’t have the infrastructure and EV still costs significantly more than ICE” … see the top comments. If we can’t do it in totality perfectly why are we doing it.
By saying convert a portion of sales or face fines it’s giving manufacturers a financial incentive to start lowering production costs and built an EV infrastructure, which if we can do for a reasonable percentage of new sales in 4 years sets us in a good path in 8 and 12 years
The ‘mandate’ is that 20% of sales be EVs in 2026, not 100%. Everybody cool your jets >

National Post has a long standing conservative bias, a headline like this is meant to rile people up who don't read the article. >

Riling up? I was like ‘wow finally a country making a meaningful effort’. Although I didn’t expect it would be possible if they had poor charging infrastructure right now.