On the same day MPs voted down a Tory motion to scrap Ottawa’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, the environment minister said the government will bring back the consumer rebate program for purchasing EVs.
While leaving the House of Commons on June 17, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin told The Canadian Press that the federal government is planning for a renewed consumer rebate program, but that the details are still being worked out.
Transport Canada introduced a nationwide rebate program in 2019, but paused the program in January of this year, more than two months earlier than it was scheduled to end, as the allocated funding had run out. EV sales have been down so far this year since the program ended….