Generally avoid posting idiotic things this guy says, but as most people know as offensive as this guy is he's been sure not to offend anyone powerful and it seems like he's finally picked a side. Hopefully this will the straw that break the camel back for the Conservatives.

The Conservative leader called for a ban on Chinese software, matching the US.

“We will protect the North American supply chains by keeping the 75% rule in place, harmonise the North American cybersecurity rules by banning Chinese software, and align with our partners on the tariff against China to counter unfair trade and increase our negotiating leverage,” he stated.

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[–] L_N@piefed.ca 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Classic Conservatives who work for the oil lobby. They're not interested in giving people access to a wider range of models to improve affordability.

What a bunch of elitist politicians!

Is this what Canadian Conservatives call common sense? lol

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Transportation needs to be electrified but if Chinese imports (and all other cars for that matter) don't ship with fully open software they should never hit Canadian soil.

China IS an adversarial country, they have interfered in our elections and economy, their telecomms equipment ships with back doors, they wage war on their neighbours, commit domestic genocide and capture resources by holding massive debts over developing nations.

It is a guarantee that their electric cars will ship with the ability to manipulate economies. A car with evil firmware could cause congestion during important days, like during elections. It could increase infrastructure costs by doing synchronized throttling up and down of charging. It could be used to track the location of individuals by asking as a distributed wireless sniffer. It could be used to track the activity of the Canadian armed forces by looking at traffic patterns on and round bases.

These "features" would be essentially free to implement and would be extremely difficult to detect, until they are deployed, unless Chinese EVs, and all other cars going forward, ship with software that can be fully inspected and audited. The earlier that this becomes a demand the easier it will be to implement.

And if you don't think this is an issue or even a possibility, millions of IoT devices have already become inadvertent bricks or had their performance degraded by companies going out of business or decided not to support "legacy" hardware. Doing it on purpose is trivial.

[–] L_N@piefed.ca 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting.

I would say that China is more of a competitor than an enemy, however. This is evident in the openness it is showing to certain nations with whom it practically refused to engage until very recently.

We should apply the same reasoning to the United States, which is currently waging economic warfare against us. The United States is not our friend, and we should stop using their online services, for example.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

100% There should be a lot more concern about device safety and software independence. If Adobe decided that Canada was not worth the taxes and paperwork they could cripple thousands of businesse overnight.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Transportation needs to be public transit. Electrifying doesn't change much.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You have to take over zoning federally then, you need density for good transit.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

There is a lot of prime land available where there's currently massive roads and parking lots. A single interchange is the size of a city center.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Look at how they kidnapped out citizens when we followed international law with Huawei. What if they decided they need to shut down our networking equipment, or create gridlock on our streets to prevent us from meeting whatever event happens.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

again, other countrys make EVs even outside of the west, hybrids also exist.

if you actually cared about the environment you'd know buying a whole new car just to get an EV is far more wasteful then just using a already used car, not to mention how much waste china produces with some of these failed items. you taking this stance when china is unwilling to open up their programing, something all other companys have to do, then the answer from me is a hard no.