Raquel Dancho

Mr. Chair, if we listen to the CEOs who are writing down up to $25 billion because of EV losses and if we look at the thousands of job losses at the Brampton facility and the CAMI facility, I think it is very clear the EV market in North America is struggling. That is despite billions of dollars of promises from the Liberal government and hundreds of millions of dollars flowing. They are still [more]

St. Albert—Sturgeon River Madam Chair, yes I am, with the member for. I will just go through the list, because I think the finance minister may not be aware of some of the commitments that he made to Canadians that have since fallen through. At Stellantis in Brampton, the plant laid off 3,000 workers. In fact it took those jobs, sent them to the U.S. and promised 5,000 jobs in the U.S. and $13 [more]

Madam Chair, I do believe Volkswagen has written down $6 billion because of losses in electric vehicles. These CEOs are really showing what the market is demanding, and that is not electric vehicles. If we look at Stellantis, for example, it wrote down $26 billion on EV investments. Stellantis cited that its customers were not buying them, and that is why it just could not make a profit from EVs. [more]

Madam Chair, the Canadian auto sector is in serious crisis. We are facing thousands of job losses, and really that is a result of the U.S. tariffs and, frankly, a disastrous strategic policy by this Liberal government. If I look at 2020 to 2024, when the finance minister was, in fact, the industry minister, he signed off on up to $52 billion with Ontario for electric vehicle subsidies to [more]

Mr. Chair, it is not necessarily other countries creating electric vehicle subsidies that benefit the American EV auto sector. Again, I do not understand. The minister did not answer my question about why our taxpayer dollars are going to benefit the American electric vehicle market when our auto sector needs support. He did not answer that at all, but we will move on. It is very clear that the [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My understanding from when we last spoke about the potential of this study or this meeting is that there was nothing scheduled for next Thursday, which was conveniently done to allow the people who are already scheduled for Monday's study, for example, to come rather than cancel. We thought we could start this study on a day when there was nothing scheduled at the time. [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am a bit concerned about this. While I appreciate that it's a compromise approach, and I know we work well with compromises at this committee, our understanding is that what this amendment substantively does is allow the government up to over 100 days to respond, and when the government has prepared its response, then we can have a debate in the House of Commons. [more]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Of course, we deal with very serious matters at this committee, but I appreciate the good-natured and good-humoured well wishes on my birthday. Thank you for that. It's very kind. As for the Standing Order 106(4) request, a very serious matter is before us, and I appreciate the behind-the-scenes collaboration thus far with the committee to discuss this and [more]

Thank you very much. I appreciate your testimony today.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I believe this is the last meeting we have on the electric vehicle study, so I want to just reflect briefly, before I go to my questions, on the importance of this study and what we've learned today and other days, particularly concerning the deeply distressing potential impact of importing Chinese electric vehicles from the PRC and the possible impact on our [more]