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Politics : The Elon Musk Presidency
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Four Tesla Dealers Said They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They?
The sales numbers provided by the company-owned shops allowed them to claim tens of millions in government rebates. Now those numbers are under scrutiny.


Tesla vehicles sitting in a parking lot this month in Ontario.Credit...Katherine Ky Cheng/Getty Images


By Ian Austen

Reporting from Ottawa

March 27, 2025Updated 4:20 p.m. ET

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As in many places around the world, Tesla sales in Canada have been falling for months, an apparent reaction to Elon Musk’s outsize role in the Trump administration and his repeated denigration of Canadian sovereignty.

Yet somehow, four Tesla- owned dealerships reported to the Canadian government that they sold an astonishing 8,653 cars during a single weekend in January — enough to qualify for 43 million Canadian dollars’ (about $30 million) worth of government subsidies under a program just before it expired.

Now the Canadian government wants to know exactly how the electric carmaker managed to move two cars a minute off its lots — a rate that assumes those four dealers had stayed open 24 hours from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12 Those payments were frozen this month after Mark Carney....

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