Unfortunately, the Canadian federal budget's proposed rebate on 2007-model fuel-efficient vehicles (including hybrids) is not retroactive. I personally think that this is unfair. It penalizes those of us who had the initiative to purchase those very same current-model vehicles before March 20, in order to "encourage" more people to do so in the future. It's being largely paid for by the additional tax to be imposed on "gas guzzlers." The government should be encouraged to make the rebates retroactive on those fuel-efficient 2007 models.

Stan