EVs about control, not carbon

Mandates collapsing your ability to move freely

by Tom Marazzo

The federal government just locked in their 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicles.

It sounds bold. Climate-driven. “Forward-thinking.” But it’s not. It’s a distraction.

Like a magician using sleight of hand, they want you watching the shiny object, EV mandates, so you don’t notice what they’re really doing: collapsing your ability to move freely.

Let’s break it dow.

First, the targets are impossible.

Canada’s power grid can’t support a full transition to electric vehicles. It’s not being upgraded fast enough. There’s no surge of new dams, plants, or infrastructure being built to meet that demand.

The rare earth minerals required for EV batteries lithium, cobalt, nickel are globally scarce, environmentally destructive to mine, and largely controlled by China. No serious attempt has been made to secure or scale those resources here.

EV prices are going up, not down. Most Canadians can’t afford them now. They won’t suddenly become affordable in ten years. The majority of people will simply be priced out.

And there’s no national transit strategy to replace the loss of private vehicles especially in rural areas.

So if they know this transition can’t be done in time…

Why are they doing it?

Because the goal isn’t a nation of electric vehicles.

The goal is a nation without private vehicles at all.

This is about control, not carbon.

You are being conditioned to accept the gradual elimination of private ownership. Not just of vehicles of everything. “You will own nothing” wasn’t a warning. It was a blueprint.

What they’re building is a society where mobility becomes a permissioned privilege. Not a right.

Digital IDs. Carbon quotas. 15-minute cities. Geo-fencing. Social credit systems. These aren’t conspiracy theories they’re active policy discussions. They’re already being tested. The technology exists. The legal frameworks are being quietly built.

When 2035 arrives, and most people can’t afford or access an EV, the government won’t say, “We failed.” They’ll say, “This is why we need tighter restrictions. This is why we need more oversight. This is why freedom of movement is dangerous to the planet.”

You won’t get your EV. You’ll get a transit pass, a curfew, and a carbon budget. And if you say the wrong thing online? That mobility credit might disappear too.

That’s the real plan. Not transition. Reduction.

They are not designing a prosperous future. They are designing a managed decline. A smaller, more controlled, less free society where expectations of ownership, independence, and mobility are slowly erased.

So, no this isn’t about saving the climate.

It’s about conditioning the population to accept having less.

Less ownership. Less movement. Less freedom.

All while telling you it’s for your own good.

Don’t fall for the sleight of hand.

This isn’t a green revolution.

It’s a leash.

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Tom Marazzo has dedicated most of his life to serving Canadians. He joined the Army Reserve at sixteen and eight years later, enrolled in the Regular Force Army, rising to the rank of Captain. After 25 years of service, Tom retired from the Armed Forces in 2015. Upon retirement, he completed a Bachelor of Technology in Software Development and was an instructor at a Community College until 2020, when he was fired for questioning the legality of COVID mandates.

He is the author of The People’s Emergency Act: Freedom Convoy 2022 and can be followed on X at @TomMarazzo.