Chinese EVs are the first test for Canada’s new partnership with China

“We should welcome Chinese car manufacturers but set the rules similarly to what GM Canada had to do when it went to Shanghai in 2009,” he told the committee. “We should say, you are welcome to come to Canada, but you will have, after three years, to have about 30 per cent of Canadian content, and after 10 years, it has to be 100 per cent content.”