What you need to know about the B.C. clean energy grant controversy [Video]

Since 2020, the B.C. government has offered $30 million yearly in grants to companies able to develop commercial vehicles that produce fewer emissions.

But now, allegations from one of those companies has the government scrambling to explain whether the private accounting firm running the grant program is taking kickbacks.

After days of being questioned over allegations that MNP is being paid to help write grants for the province’s Commercial Vehicle Innovation Challenge (CVIC) and also suggest who should get them, B.C.’s auditor general is investigating.

“We are counting on the auditor general to do a thorough investigation,” said B.C. Premier David Eby in the legislature on Wednesday after once again facing questions from opposition parties over whether public money, meant to mitigate the effects of climate change, is being properly managed.