“We made a commitment to implement fuel-consumption regulations for the 2011 model year that are benchmarked against a stringent, dominant North American standard, and we are keeping our word,” Canada’s transport minister Lawrence Cannon said in a statement.
According to Wards, Canada’s combined new vehicle fleet average fuel economy for 2006 was about 27mpg and any new legislation will only improve on this. The legislative deadline for the new ruling is late 2008.