— Investigators for Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change raided the headquarters of Volkswagen Canada on Tuesday morning, executing a search warrant as part of the massive international investigation into “cheat devices” meant to evade emissions regulations. Thomas Tetzlaff, Volkswagen Canada’s manager of public relations, said the investigators came unannounced, and that the company is co-operating. Volkswagen Group Canada Inc. has imported and sold a number of the affected vehicles in Ontario, which includes 2.0 litre, 4 Cylinder TDI diesel engine vehicles. Environment and Climate Change Canada, the federal ministry, is the lead agency for investigating the importation and sale of Volkswagen vehicles with the defeat device. This newest charge, however, is for the provincial offence of causing vehicles to operate with higher than allowed emissions levels.

Source: National Post September 20, 2017 00:45 UTC