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One of the B.C. Liberal party’s top donors, the New Car Dealers Association, has overseen millions of dollars in B.C. government electric car incentives since 2011.

It’s an unusual arrangement. Normally B.C. government transfers go to health authorities, schools, colleges and non-profit groups that deliver social services, not profit-making enterprises or their associations.

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By this spring, $18.7 million will have passed through the new car dealers group for the $5,000-a-car incentives. About $1.42 million of that will have been spent on administration, marketing and training of dealers’ salespeople, according to information provided to Postmedia after a request to the provincial government.

The Liberals recently promised to renew the new car dealers’ arrangement for another three years and put another $27 million into incentives, which will bring the total transferred to the car dealer group to nearly $46 million by 2020.