MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Industry Minister Tony Clement says Ottawa is considering a scrappage program that would pay consumers to get rid of their old, polluting vehicles.
He says the federal government is closely watching a similar proposal that's winding its way through U.S. Congress.
Clement says Ottawa is also looking at what's happening in other European countries.
He says he doesn't want a program that will pay consumers for their old clunkers only to have them resold and go back on the road.
He says the government wouldn't go that route, and would prefer a program that got those vehicles off the road for good.
Ottawa announced a vehicle scrappage program in January under which consumers can receive, among other things, $300 in cash or a $500 rebate on the purchase of vehicle built in 2004 or later, but the incentives vary by province.
