An order paper question by CPC MP Ed Fast asked the government about their federal fleet of electric car chargers wanting to know where the chargers were, what Ministries were responsible for them, how much they cost and how often they were being used every month.
In the dump of information he received, I noticed two ministries — Environment and Climate Change and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans — had built car chargers only to never use them at all.
What’s also interesting is the the major mall near me installed two electric car charging stations near one of the mall’s major entrances.
Over the YEAR or so that I’ve parked in the mall’s parking lot for shopping there, I’ve seen maybe two or three cars being charged at those charging stations.
Mr. Dressup has developed a way for electric cars to charge themselves. It was in the budget.
Talkers vs doers. Talkers can waste money, never be correct, forever. There is only upside.
I just noticed a row of 6 or so brand new Tesla chargers in the parking lot of our local ‘Smart Centre’ Busy place but the chargers are located far from any store. Closest establishment is a Boston Pizza that’s not attached to any of the other stores. I guess the theory is to plug you car in, run into Boston Pizza for a couple of cold ones (at least 2 to give you some charge time), then get back in a drive?
Ontario is never coming back.
Btw, does anybody know what happened ,or who was the largest sub sovereign debter nation in the world before Ontariowe
That is why it was time to get out of Canada decades ago. For anyone still attached to confederation, it has long been to late. The local Ontario and Quebec first party, currently under the leadership os Scott Moe, sure ain’t gonna do anything about it.
Question I have: Do any of these chargers, at malls, government offices, or wherever, meter and charge for the charge? Or is it all free for the taking?
Tesla met with our town council and wanted the town to pay for the electricity used in the charging stations if they were to install some.
My neighbour is a town councillor. I asked him if electric cars had a viable business plan why then is Tesla asking for taxpayer dollars for subsidy. He didn’t present that question.
The irony is that people who could never afford a Tesla would be subsidizing those who can. It’s not really irony. It’s tragic.
I hope your town council told them to go pound sand.
Next question: Is this how Tesla is defraying the open ended and rather large liability they have promised, by conning taxpayers into bearing the cost?
Liberals. Adopting policy positions that they have no intention of implementing. Wasting taxpayer dollars virtue signalling. Canada needs a Voter Bill of Rights. No law or regulation passed by government unless it is specifically stated in their election policy platform. Anything else goes to referendum.
LEED gives points to developers for putting in charging stations, and bike racks, and showers for bikees, so its all part of the scam, maaan.
i hope to never work on designing mechanical systems for stoopid green LEED buildings. points for being close to a bus stop? come on.
who believes in this stuff?
Ha ha ha! So true. Thankfully, the worst I ever have to deal with is the Green Building Council (I avoid LEED like the plague) However I have to hire a Green Point Rater … to check the boxes next to “drought tolerant landscape” to achieve my Green ‘Silver’ Rating. Or check the box next to “FSC certified hardwood flooring” … or … “building entrance at grade” … or any other number of ‘pet-green features’.
The whole “green” blackmail is a JOKE. The “greenest” thing ever … is the FREE MARKET … which will always seeks the path of least resistance.
For example, no “green” program “caused” the development of “engineered lumber” (which includes: plywood, particleboard, OSB, MDF, TJI joists, and conventional roof trusses … among others). Lumber that is created by what was formerly WASTE products of lumber mills. That “waste” is now our primary building material. The FREE MARKET created “engineered lumber” … which is the single most “green” material in the history of the construction industry. Because it is STRONGER than natural lumber, cheaper than natural lumber, doesn’t shrink like natural lumber, and is lightweight. No government program or agency or LAW created it.
“Green” is one BIG JOKE.
And just why should I – and all other taxpayers who can’t afford those hyper-expensive vehicles – be forced to subsidize their fuel. All electrical recharging stations need to charge the consumer enough to recoup the cost of the electricity at least.
AGW fraud just keeps on going and the gullible taxpayer pays.
I am just going to call you an idiot straight up. “voter bill of rights”; WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!! I guarantee you it will work just as well as section 13. Just as well as Tommy Douglas’ forced sterilization of the sub-normal. Just as well as the 60s scoop. Just as well as the reservation system. Just as well as residential schools. Just as well as the Holodomor, the Holocaust, the great leap forward, …
Statists everywhere thank you for you lifelong unending support for eroding the freedom of the individual, and you support for ever bigger, more intrusive, more oppressive government. You just keep supporting more money, more power, more everything for government; cause this time it will be different.
FYI, there is only one successful “voter bill of rights” in the world. It is called the second amendment, and is universally hated and attacked by everyone in the world. That fact that Canada never had one, should tell you all you need to know about every government in Canada.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
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wow. I have used countless amounts of engineered bldg products and never thought of that angle.
I did however, buy $300 worth of poplar baseboard yesterday ‘victorian’ cut for my 1920s vintage house.
God Bless the free market.
Actually engineered wood products were one of the big ways Canada survived the US softwood lumber tariffs over the years.