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The only reason there isn't more outcry about John Deere is they have successfully painted farmers as the bad guy, trying to "steal" business away from the poor tractor corporation. Same goes for 3rd party repair techs performing "illegal" modifications to iPhones.

affordable Chinese EVs

A Trojan Horse of monumental scale. China's long term goals is to run the world, they will use any opportunity they get to get economic control over other countries. Putting millions of vehicles on the road that can be disabled by the Chinese government every time we disagree is not a smart move.

And this isn't just fearmongering about Chinese tech, all modern cars have cellular modems and can be disabled to some degree by the manufacture, but China has 100% control over big businesses. If they say no commuting in Canada tomorrow, it'll happen.

This can be done without inviting AI and crypto bros (the same people) into Canada. Electric car chargers can be required to follow a charging profile put out by the supply authority, then as people go to bed at night chargers can be ramped up and the base load increased.

"It's only a little" is perfectly reasonable when 'a little' is below the threshold of doing harm. For example, mercury compounds are still used in medicine because the risk of harm is negligible at the concentrations it is used. Flourine is cartoonishly dangerous but it is in water and toothpaste.

Small aircraft make up a very tiny fraction of gasoline consumption and an engine failure is a lot more serious for them than a car. It's really only a problem if you spend a lot of time hanging around airports.

It could be, but it could also be trivial given the 8x lead consumption in the 80's.

I think the whole protein powder industry is a fad but having the CBC legitimize claims like this is how you feed anti-science smooth brains. They get to point at the 'health product' and call foul because the CBC said there is killer lead in it. It took seconds to find the Canadian lead numbers, the CBC could have done the same to give context.

Aviation fuel (like personal sized planes) is still leaded because it makes the engine more reliable.

This whole hype is bullshit, Canadians get 0.1ug/kg body weight per day. Even the 'worst' one listed still falls within the norm for an 80kg person.

Look up the numbers, Canadians consume on average 0.1ug/kg body weight per day. The 'worst' one listed is still within the norm for an 80kg person.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/food-safety/chemical-contaminants/environmental-contaminants/lead.html

A single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600 percent of CR’s level of concern for lead, which is 0.5 micrograms per day.

Canadians consume on average 0.1ug per kg bodyweight per day so that 0.5ug 'level of concern' is bullshit.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/food-safety/chemical-contaminants/environmental-contaminants/lead.html

1600% of that suspicious limit would be within the norm for a an 80kg (175lb) person.

Do you lock your door? Why, people don't just go into other people's houses, they're not inclined to do so.

The point is having vehicles vulnerable to such trivial abuse is unacceptable. It only takes one cunt who decides that he wants to randsomeware every Toyota in the world to spoil the party.

Boo fucking hoo, China is the IP theft capital of the world. Their entire export economy is based on using slavery to build designs they stole from others. There is a reason that security conscious companies do their final board assembly (installing custom silicon and flashing ROMs) in North America, if it was done in China, with the rest of the board, there would be clones on the market within a week.