The obvious answer for us is the federal ZEV mandate that was announced by the environment minister a few months ago. Right now most people who want to go to electric cars cannot find any. It takes between six months and two years to get their hands on one.
I was looking at some data for Ontario, because you are an Ontario MP. Right now, because of the price of vehicles, gas vehicles, the price of gas, it ends up being less expensive to purchase and own an electric vehicle for many models nowadays.
When you're thinking about Ontario, I was looking at some data from 2021, and for Ontario drivers, Ontario imports approximately 12,750,000 barrels a month for oil for gas and diesel. It costs Ontario taxpayers about $900 million a month to import to Ontario oil for gas and diesel. If we transfer to electric vehicles, what that will do is keep money in the province of Ontario and create sustainable jobs in assembly, utilities, construction and everything.
That's why we need regulations to get those cars into Canada. Right now we're getting the leftovers because we don't have regulations. The U.S. has them—