https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/volkswagen-charges-faking-canadian-emissions-tests-1.5389568
[Just years after the U.S. levied penalties on VW for the same offence,
Canada is just now getting around to enforcing the Canadian
Environmental Protection Act. Perhaps Canada is just laying the ground
for VW to get a leg-up in the EV business here by way of a settlement
here mirroring that in the U.S.]
Volkswagen charged for allegedly violating Canadian emissions standards
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German automaker breached Canadian Environmental Protection Act
The Canadian Press · Posted: Dec 09, 2019
The federal government is charging Volkswagen for allegedly importing
cars into Canada that company executives knew violated emissions standards.
The German automaker faces 58 charges for violating the Canadian
Environmental Protection Act for bringing 128,000 cars into Canada with
illegal emissions between 2008 and 2015.
The company faces another two charges for providing misleading information.
Canada's case against Volkswagen comes more than four years after the
company admitted to installing software on 11 million cars worldwide to
trick emissions-testing equipment into concluding the cars ran more
cleanly than they actually did.
Volkswagen pleaded guilty to charges in the case in the United States in
March 2017 and was fined more than $4.3 billion US.
The company's first court appearance on the Canadian charges is to occur
Friday.
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