Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he wants to make it easier for more Canadians to drive electric vehicles and he isn't ruling out nuclear power as a cleaner source of energy.
“We know we need to cut emissions,” he said Monday at an outdoor news conference at Royal Roads University in the suburban Victoria community of Colwood.
The federal government will extend a current program that offers electric vehicle buyers up to $5,000 to help with purchases and it will introduce mandatory sales targets that require 20 per cent of all vehicles sold by 2026 to be electric, he said. In order to charge those vehicles, Trudeau said Canada must embark on more electrification initiatives, including the possibility of increased nuclear power.
A spokeswoman for a Canadian clean energy think tank said five per cent of Canada's vehicle sales are already electric models, with B.C. at 13 per cent.
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