OTTAWA — On the same day the prime minister is set to meet Saskatchewan’s premier after his trade mission to China, Canada’s industry minister said opening the Canadian market to Chinese-made EVs isn’t off the table.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning outside of the Liberal cabinet meeting, Melanie Joly said loosening Canada’s restrictions to China’s electric vehicles has not been ruled out to ease punishing tariffs on Canadian canola.

“This is something that the prime minister has been looking at, which is basically how we can be able to remove the pressure on our canola farmers,” she said.

“That being said, when it comes to EVs, you saw what we announced — first and foremost, we said that we would be lifting the ZEV (zero-emission vehicle mandates.) Why? Because right now our auto

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