Indigenous groups question government funding for Métis Nation of Ontario

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the Liberal government’s electric vehicle sales mandate is akin to “banning rural life” as he promised a nationwide pressure campaign to scrap the policy.   Poilievre took a pause from his Albertan byelection campaign Thursday for a press event in Saskatchewan in which he lambasted the Liberal policy — colloquially known as the EV mandate — as an attack on farmers and rural Canada.   He also promised to launch a media and pressure campaign against the mandate implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for all vehicle sales...