“We are not banning vehicles that use gasoline, we are responding to the market. We are responding to Canadians.”

Those were the words of Wade Grant, the parliamentary secretary to the environment minister, Julie Dabrusin, speaking to a Conservative motion on the government’s electric vehicle mandate in the House of Commons in June.

In reality, if the Liberals were responding to the market , they would scrap the mandate that will require 20 per cent of all cars sold in Canada next year to be electric vehicles.

The reason is that EV sales have fallen for five months in a row and accounted for just 7.9 per cent of new vehicles sold in Canada in June.

The forecast for this year is that EV sales will hit 9.7 per cent of sales, or 180,000 units.

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