There's a better way to become a leader in electric vehicles than throwing cash at old automakers

Let’s agree that Canada should try to become a player in the electric-vehicle business. Carbon neutral means ditching internal-combustion and diesel engines, and as the economies that make machines that move people around tend to be the world-beaters, let’s go for it. Here’s another idea: How about trying to do it without showering hundreds of millions of dollars of scarce public resources on legacy automakers? It’s...