Update: Is Trudeau suggesting Canadian tax payers will pay US residents the US rebate on EV’s made in Canada?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada would ‘align’ its own electric-vehicle incentives with those south of the border if Canadian-built cars and trucks could be made eligible for proposed U.S. tax credits.
TORONTO — Doug Ford is pitching Ontario as the next electric vehicle manufacturing powerhouse, seemingly a far cry from the premier who three years ago cancelled incentives for people to buy them.
Where some see contradiction, others see calculated election strategy.
Shortly after coming to power in 2018, Ford’s government scrapped Ontario’s cap-and-trade system, and with it the electric vehicle rebates funded by that program.
What a bizarre article. It fails to mention that Biden’s BBB plan offers huge incentives to manufacture EV’s and batteries in the US which has the potential to wipe out Canada’s auto industry.
As for mining rare earths in the “Ring of Fire”, the Ring of Eco-Luddites will ensure that is at the least severely limited.
Rebates do favour the rich, electric vehicles do not make practical economic sense.
