Critical of Ontario's DriveClean Emissions Testing Program

Organization

Automobile Protection Association (APA)

Published

2000

Summary

The Automobile Protection Association wrote Ontario Environment Minister Tony Clement today to request an overhaul of Drive Clean, the province's vehicle inspection and maintenance program. APA researchers visited 24 garages in Greater Toronto to study the impact of Ontario's Drive Clean. Drive Clean requires every motor vehicle in Greater Toronto and the Hamilton-Wentworth regions to be brought to a test facility every two years for an emissions test. The APA discovered that test variability was huge. The pollutants measured varied by up to 800% for the same car, often tested on the same day.

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Source: Consumer Policy Research Database