Ottawa freezes Tesla's $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs [View all]

Ottawa freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs

The stop-payment order appears to have been made before the current election was called Sunday, though Chrystia Freeland only confirmed it Tuesday, while on the campaign trail for her University-Rosedale seat.

By Marco Chown OvedClimate Change Reporter

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Former transport minister Chrystia Freeland has frozen $43 million in payments to Tesla pending a line-by-line investigation into its last-minute surge in EV rebate claims on the final weekend of the government program.

The American EV maker run by U.S. presidential adviser Elon Musk will also be excluded from all future EV rebate programs as long as tariffs are in place, Freeland said in a statement.

The stop-payment order appears to have been made before the current election was called Sunday, though Freeland only confirmed it Tuesday, while on the campaign trail for her University-Rosedale seat.

“As soon as I became Transport Minister, I asked the department to stop all payments for Tesla vehicles in order to fully examine each claim individually and determine whether all are eligible and valid. No payments will be made until we are confident that the claims are valid,” she said in a statement texted to the Star.

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