It's easy to say "fuck america! Let's bring in those chinese EVs!" And while we certainly put those tariffs in place in large part because of the States doing so, it's also important to remember that China really, really doesn't play fair on the global stage. It's easy to point to subsidies as the culprit, but as usual with Chinese manufacturing, that only tells part of the story. It's very likely that many parts of those vehicles are sold to these companies by CCP owned or partly-owned businesses, from the steel to the leather to the plastics, these cars are cheap for a reason.
When you buy a Chinese EV, the vast majority of that money goes to China. And if you're really a "rah rah Canada" kind of person, that's why those tariffs exist, because if they do flood the market with cheap vehicles, it's important that we're not wholly enriching a foreign nation (especially one that has shown it is happy to clandestinely meddle in Canadian affairs) at the expense of our own.
The fact that anyone voted for the finance minister of a deeply unpopular PM is more surprising to me. Freeland has a lot for gall thinking she could sign those cheques for years, then jump off the train as it's flying off the cliff and assume the Trudeau stink wouldn't follow her. It's literally that the other candidates were nobodies that she ended up in second.