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Tax dollars subsidized IKEA, The Brick electric vehicles, Metro Vancouver board hears - BC | Globalnews.ca

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Questions are being raised about Metro Vancouver spending after it was learned taxpayer funds were given to IKEA and The Brick, to purchase zero -emission delivery vehicles.

Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West made a motion to stop the $ 300,000 grant.

Delta Councilor Dylan Kruger told Global News “It’s good for IKEa. I don’t think Metro Vancouver taxpayers should be paying for it” The board decided to continue with a number of services, including Invest Vancouver .