https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/07/12/ontario-electric-car-rebate-cancelled_a_23480717/
This decision must be reversed. There is no way that a decision to take funds away from clean energy to support dirty energy can ever be justified, especially in this era, when climate change action is critically needed.
Every year, the federal government and some provinces pay billions in hand-outs to Canada’s coal, oil and gas companies, undermining climate action in Canada. Fossil fuel subsidies to producers total $3.3 billion annually, which amounts to paying polluters $19/tonne to pollute. These subsidies drastically undercut the goal of the pan-Canadian carbon price that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will introduce in 2018. It’s time to stop these harmful and counter-productive subsidies.
BOLD above added by me.
https://environmentaldefence.ca/report/the-elephant-in-the-room-canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/
Let’s send a clear message to all levels of government – and especially to Ford. Fossil fuel subsidies need to be dropped immediately, and clean energy support needs to be reinstated, and strengthened. Let’s show the world what Canada stands for. 🙂
