Canada blames Volkswagen in the exhaust scandal. The government has filed suit against the German carmaker for violations of environmental laws and import regulations, she said. The authorities accuse VW of having introduced nearly 128,000 vehicles between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2015, which did not meet the exhaust emission standards.
In Canada, VW has been confronted in the past few years with complaints from numerous diesel owners - the group has already paid more than two billion Canadian dollars (1.36 billion euros) for compensation there. After four years of investigations by the Ministry of the Environment, the government filed a lawsuit.
Volkswagen said that the company cooperated extensively with the investigation of the authorities. At a hearing this Friday in Ontario, both parties would submit a settlement solution for consideration. Details of this would be presented at this hearing.
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Worldwide, the affair concerned about eleven million diesel cars in 2015 according to the Group. Because of the "diesel gate" scandal, the Group has already booked more than 30 billion euros in legal costs.
