>Since Tesla Canada did not provide a timeline or other backdating details, the filings were suspicious to the Canadian government.

Surely the filings with the government would contain a field for date of transaction? I doubt the government would accept claims without any accompanying information about the sale to the end-user.

This is why they thought they were suspicious and were investigating.

Source? I havent seen any statements the documentation was incomplete. All I see indicates the data is all there, and any "suspicion" is an empty claim.

They're also saying that they provided a discount to customers up front and then didn't try to get reimbursed by the Canadian government for months, until they found out that the program would run out of money and they might not get reimbursed at all, at which point they rushed to submit the whole backlog in a few days. So either they were grossly incompetent and leaving millions of dollars on the table, or maybe they were trying to delay revenue to make earnings look better in a future quarter.

The entire outrage stems from the fact that other Canadian automakers were even more incompetent and slower with their backlogs.

Seems like this was standard practice and Tesla was the quickest to get them in.

The average auto dealer is a local, family business. They can be pretty big as local businesses go, but they're nowhere near the scale of Tesla.

It makes a lot more sense for a local dealer to be slow, especially if EVs only make up a small percentage of their business.

Sure. Lots of Canadian dealers rushed to get them in. 72 million in rebates were claimed in the 48 hours after the government announced the program would close, and 40% of that was other dealers.

Tesla isn't the bad guy in this situation, the government is. The government is the one stiffing dealers for the rebate on cars already sold.

Thanks, the article does a very poor job at explaining what's going on.

Also, why would you be downvoted on this? Awful people.