Road to Electric Vehicles: Carrot for the Wealthy, Stick for the Rest

Feds expand EV subsidy, ponder expanding tax on non-electric vehicles that most Canadians can actually afford

A woman prepares to plug in her electric vehicle in Markham, Ont., in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

Commentary

Despite years of coercive effort on the part of the government and billions spent trying to get Canadians to buy electric vehicles, only a mere 5 percent of drivers have chosen to go electric. Research conducted by the Department of Natural Resources concluded that most Canadians simply found electric vehicles to be too expensive to purchase.