Canada to mandate that only zero-emission
vehicles be sold by 2035

Safest bet they will default on it!

That means no vehicles at all, because emissions are present at every stage of manufacturing a vehicle.

As well to mandate that by 2035 everyone must ride unicorns. There is no such thing as a 'zero emissions vehicle'. even a bamboo bicycle is going to have 'emissions' involved with its manufacture, distribution and operation.

No such thing. The purpose is to limit travel to closely controlled urban, blue, hellholes.

This is just virtue signaling. The odds of anything even remotely like this happening are zero. I love my EV as much as my regular car but it is certainly not going to work for everyone. It has a role and purpose it serves extremely well. (Short and mid range trips in the area, returning home to charge at night). But otherwise, no. When I visit friends across the state I stop at a pump on my way out of town and refill at the other end. In my other car.

And this is going to offset India's love affair with coal?

Canadians should start investing in stagecoach/sleigh manufacturing and harness production.

Political leaders are listening to a few assorted lunatics plus people who can profit off this exercise. Like the construction CEOs who make money by building something for which the government will give them money. And they slip some of that money back to the politicians. They build a big solar facility, pay themselves 7 and 8 figure salaries and bonuses, and make contributions to the correct politicians with some of that money. Plus the scientists that are on the government dole will tell the politicians whatever they want to hear to ensure they keep getting the government grants. Any scientist that says there is no warming would immediately lose his grant. The leaders really need to talk to scientists and engineers who aren't on the government dole. The math is easy and it easily says none of this will work. In Georgia(USA) a stupid project was funded by the state government. Engineers and scientists at Georgia Tech told anyone who would listen it was not going to work. But the politicians ignored them and funded the project anyway. The construction company CEOs made big salaries, the politicians got donations, and right when it was finished and no more construction was needed it was announced that they had determined it wasn't going to work and the project was abandoned. And everyone got richer except the taxpayers. And the engineers who accurately predicted it wouldn't work.

First, prove climate change exists. Second, ignore impending solar minimum.

Turn a few good ole boys in the south loose on this problem. During the pretend oil shortage of the Carter years, they invented engines that could get 50 and 60 miles to the gallon. Then these engines suddenly disappeared. (Bought up by the oil men.) I think I even remember one that could run on water. Not sure about that. But lets keep setting goals that can't be reached. It's worked pretty good for the billionaires so far.

Fascism.

Gonna be a lot of Canadians walking.

Make the Canadian government's official vehicles lead the way by adopting this across their fleet,10 years early. Let's see how long it remains after they themselves show us how it's done.

#2 is spot on. And every form of energy that drives engines causes the emissions that are so hatefully attacked by the environmental harasstivists; just some of them do it away from the car's tailpipe.

As for emissions: the final consequence of this wantwit nonsense will be to use as motive forces for transport mules, horses, oxen and whatever else can pull a conveyance. Their emissions are those found on the streets of San Francisco. O tempora, O mores!

So people need to start taking good care of their vehicles. Those 'zero emissions' things will be crap.

They already come down here to buy guns. Soon it will be cars, too.

Re #10, please be careful which fairy tales you believe. All of the "200 mpg carburetors" and "miracle engine runs on water" are pure scams. As a engineering grad student, we went ahead and did testing of an "advanced fuel economy modificiation" that a local (Fla) good old boy had put on his own car, IIRC a Dodge with a slant six engine. We were extremely skeptical, but as a taxpayer he asked the Dean of Engineeing to test his "miracle gas mileage invention" during the 1973 Arab Oil embargo mess. So we did it, ran his car on our chassis dynomometer, basically rollers in the floor that you can chain down the car and spin the wheels at highway speeds while giving the resistance of actual driving to the rear wheels, while running all sorts of test equipment to accurately measure fuel consumption. We had a tank of fuel on a precision scale, feeding his engine, and loaded the wheels up to simulate driving at 60 mph. The inventor was there, operating his car, we were just measuring fuel flow and speed and load on the engine. Sadly, the engine kept stalling out at speed and slowing down so we never got a good run for more than a few seconds, and saw nothing at all special about the tiny short bits of fuel economy we were able to measure, like 10 seconds worth. The inventor kept saying "well, it never did this before", and twiddling with his modified carburetor. We spent about four hours on the dyno, and with him adjusting and messing, and never got even one run for data for 5 minutes with the engine running properly. And eventually the engine began to overheat, and we stopped testing rather than damage the man's car. I felt sorry for him, but we did honest testing, with good equipment and found a car that ran badly and didn't allow any actual measurements of "miraculous fuel economy". All of this is BS, mostly scammers but some true believers who are fooling themselves with bad measuring equipment or 'estimates'.

Get a Horse !

I agree with #19, but I've spent a lot of time horseback and they aren't necessarily zero emission either. 😉

It gets cold in Canada. Electric motors are less efficient in cold temps, that is if they start at all. I wish they would just be honest and say "You will move into our soulless crowded crime ridden cities, never travel, rent from us, buy our Chinese made crap, eat our bugs or we will kill you." Then at least we would know someone was telling us the truth.

Bicycle sales boom! There's always walking. Invest in shoes!

That's like saying only zero emission humans are acceptable to live.

O Canada, bend THIS!