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Are cheap Chinese EVs worth the moral cost? Witness stunned by questions ơn forced labour in China - (video, 4 min) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Here is an alternative Invidious link: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=T51yekxcXCE

"We're going against our own Canadian values."

A tense moment in Ottawa as a witness for Clean Energy Canada is pushed to explain why we should allow Chinese EVs into our market despite major human rights concerns. If the "economic choice" relies on forced labour, is it even a choice at least some Canadians are willing to make?

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago

If it has a screen in it, it also contains basic electronic components—capacitors, resistors, diodes, etc. And unless something's changed in the last few years, those are mostly made in China.

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