CPC must be pretty ecstatic. If they can ditch PP for his excessive social conservativism, they can easily win the next federal election as Carney is Conservative. Greenpeace gets it:

However, Greenpeace Canada was quick to criticize the EV mandate delay.

“What was the point of electing Mark Carney when we get Pierre Poilievre’s climate policy?” said Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist with the activist group.

Can we please at least admit that a Polievre government certainly would have had a pipeline or two in the upcoming national projects? Please? I cannot think of a more simple but correct example thus far:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/no-oil-pipeline-on-list-1.7629818

The EV mandate will be paused as the government conducts a 60-day review of the policy, and is being waived for 2026 models.

I think you might just be confused or deliberately reading this oddly? Yes, the mandate is at the very least delayed by a year (that's what the 2026 part is) and is being reviewed in totality. At the end of the pause, it might be removed, might be restructured etc, that's literally what it means to review a government policy.

My other prediction is that Assolini will not participate in a fair CUSMA renegotiation

Fully agree. And as such, Canadian industry is likely in for a continued battering as we hemorrhage jobs. And America will likely battle anything approaching EV mandates in its markets. So, such a mandate might just make cars unaffordable in Canada (our market is insignificant compared to to America's.)

As I said earlier, these are huge conversations with implications across the globe. The landscape is wildly different than it was when the Liberals put forward the original legislation. I would want to at a bare minimum, restructure any such mandates in conjunction with the EU, possibly abandon the auto sector entirely etc.

as Carney is Conservative.

This is silly and the same nonsense that puts republicans in power in America. It's the same idiots who said who screamed there was no difference between Democratic and republican environmental policy because Harris would allow fracking, if you can't look and see a stunning chasm between what is and what would have been, that's on you. To seriously suggest that the Conservatives would have the same environmental policy is not only childish beyond belief, stunningly ignorant but that level of false equivocation is fundamentally dangerous.

Edit:

I realize not everyone actually reads what the opposition proposes. Here's a look at the last conservative platform, in particular the climate stuff, feel free to let me know how much of this you think is happening under Carney:

• Axe the entire carbon tax, including industrial pricing
• Scrap regulations they view as costly or ideological, including the oil and gas GHG emissions cap, Clean Fuels Regulation (CFR) and Clean Electricity Regulation (CER)
• Plan to double oil production
• (e.g., Bills C-69 & C-48)
• Oppose federal overreach into industrial or provincial jurisdiction (e.g., electricity taxes)

I basically agree, it's really how you define the terms. We don't have Canadian manufacturers etc. But it's not straight up American, we also have Honda and Toyota.

And a lot of the world fights for any position on that resource chain as the almost 400K jobs in the sector are generally high paying, often low education requirements, hard to replace jobs with specialized, not always particularly transferrable skills. One of the last of the "good" manufacturing jobs and replacing it will be incredibly difficult.

BYD offers compact cheap EVs, a product Ford does not produce.

That Ford (and GM and whatever Chrysler calls themselves now) chooses not to produce.

There is a market for affordable EV commuter cars, and the north American industry chooses not to address that market because they seem to prefer to produce land yachts and mall assault vehicles.

BYD offers compact cheap EVs

Because the Chinese government is making them sell below cost. It's called dumping. The point is to destroy local industry.

But BYD is fucked, they cannot survive on this much longer.

While the feds tried to incentivise EVs, the provincial PCs ripped out chargers and subsidized gas prices.