N.S. MLAs hit the brakes on rebates for new Teslas

Michael Gorman · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 3:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Nova Scotia MLAs voted unanimously connected Friday to scrap the province's electrical conveyance rebate for caller Tesla products connected relationship of its CEO's transportation to U.S. President Donald Trump amid a commercialized warfare launched by the Americans.

The provincial rebate for a caller electrical conveyance is betwixt $2,000 and $3,000, depending on the worth of the purchase.

"The proprietor of Tesla happens to person aligned himself with a antheral who is waging economical warfare connected our state and this is simply a tiny mode to instrumentality a basal against that," New Democrat MLA Susan LeBlanc said successful notation to Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk aft introducing the amendment during statement connected the Financial Measures Act.

LeBlanc and her caucus colleagues agreed to a sub-amendment from the governing Progressive Conservatives to clarify that the alteration would use to the acquisition of caller products manufactured by Tesla oregon a corp associated with Tesla.

"Our car manufacture successful peculiar is astatine menace and the American authorities precise peculiarly is targeting electrical vehicles and clime change," NDP Leader Claudia Chender told reporters.

"So we spot nary crushed to rebate the acquisition of cars from Tesla."

Government House person Brendan Maguire called the amendment "a beauteous casual happening to do."

"Why would we enactment idiosyncratic who doesn't enactment Canada? This is idiosyncratic who has made disparaging remarks astir Canada and we're not going to enactment him," helium told reporters.

Musk is simply a high-ranking subordinate of Trump's interior ellipse and leads the arguable Department of Government Efficiency, which has been criticized for its assessments of assorted authorities departments and, successful immoderate cases, issuing wide layoffs.

Stock for the automobile institution has faced declines successful caller weeks successful effect to his engagement with the U.S. government.

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