Ontario Premier Doug Ford is asking Prime Minister Mark Carney not to drop massive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles , as he looks to protect his province’s fledgling clean auto industry.

The request puts Ontario in direct opposition with Saskatchewan, where retaliatory Chinese tariffs on canola are causing concern for the agriculture industry.

“At a time when our automotive sector is under enormous financial pressures because of President Trump’s tariffs , Canada’s tariff on Chinese-made EVs is critical to protecting more than 157,000 direct jobs in Ontario and hundreds of thousands of indirect jobs across the country,” Ford wrote in a letter to Carney.

He asked the prime minister to maintain the 100 per cent tariff on Chinese EV imports, which was first put in place in 202

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