Why should TC lower standards for the 2 or 3 models that manufactures who did not put sufficient engineering effort to comply?
Standardization between America and Canada reduces costs and increases model availability in Canada. Canada is a small market, so there is very little incentive for many companies to produce models that conform to our standards in order to sell their cars here. It also reduces costs because manufactures do not have to engineer two different machines, and then build two different machines for the US and Canadian market.
That's in theory, though. In reality, most US cars we also get, with a few exceptions. And I'm assuming most US cars are built to Canadian specifications anyway, since most are on the RIV acceptable list.
I'm interested to know why you're such a fan of the government acting to keep car costs for Canadians high, Snowy. You're against the Gov't doing anything that would reduce our standards and thus make the importation of new cars easier, which equates to higher prices. Why?