The Premier’s office is desperately trying to spin its way out of the fact that Scott Moe has been all over the map on the issue of Chinese EV tariffs.
You don't need to take our word for it. Take Premier Moe’s.
On September 15, the Premier told reporters in Saskatoon that his past comments on EV tariffs were misconstrued, before going on to defend the EV tariffs:
The EV tariffs are on because we aligned with the United States of America, and so lifting the EV tariffs would most certainly impact the negotiations we have with the United States of America, which is our largest trading partner, in Saskatchewan and across Canada. So herein lies our effort to represent ourselves as a nation of Canada and we need to do so unapologetically, but we also need to understand that there’s a balance to be found between our largest trading partners around the world. And so it’s not as simple as lifting EV tariffs.
On September 16, when asked about dropping EV tariffs during a scrum with reporters in Ottawa (6:10), Moe again defended the EV tariffs and again claimed to have been misquoted on the issue previously:
I was quoted on this a while ago and I’d just clarify. It’s not as simple as that. Our trade relations that we have, again our largest trade partner is the United States of America, which we’ve aligned with the EV tariffs on, which there’s been a response from China.
In an interview with National Post columnist Brian Lilly published September 18, Moe again claimed that lifting the EV tariffs is not a simple solution to the issue of canola tariffs, a flip flop also reported on in a separate National Post article.
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