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An advocacy group says the Manitoba government has spent nearly a third of a million dollars on electric vehicle (EV) chargers in the past two years, but hasn’t tracked if the chargers are actually being used.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) said a freedom of information request revealed the province spent $326,000 over the past two fiscal years – from April 2022 to March 2024 – to install EV chargers.
“That might not sound like that big of an issue, but the problem is that the government didn’t do any follow-up,” Gage Haubrich, CTF’s prairie director told CTV News Thursday.
Haubrich said the CTF asked the province for usage data, but the group was told it didn’t exist. He called the expenditure a waste of government money.
“You know, any regular Manitoban would be fired from the job for …
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