Ontario offers carmakers cash to go green

The new fund is aimed mainly at making cleaner large vehicles, not smaller cars and trucks. It is a successor to a $500-million Ontario program set up in 2004 that is credited with generating $7-billion in new auto investments.

"Ontario will show leadership by partnering with industry to secure high-paying jobs and fight climate change," a government source said.

Never read more empty words in all my life, or more blatant lies, but we all develop resistance at some point, don't we? Soothing numbness.