Should Canada mandate sales targets for electric vehicles? Report says ‘yes’
OTTAWA — Whether Canada should introduce a national mandate requiring the auto industry to make or sell more zero-emission vehicles is a question facing the Liberal government as it’s not on the road to meet its own targets.
The vehicles, known as ZEVs, are seen by Ottawa as a way to help cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions to get to net-zero by 2050 and slash them by up to 45 per cent below 2005 levels within the decade.
Together, light-duty passenger trucks and cars typically make up the biggest polluting culprits within Canada’s transportation sector.
Of course Erin O’Tooliban’s Con Party thinks it’s a swell idea too.
