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Ontario's transportation minister Kathleen Wynne says she's willing to meet with a Toronto man who manually pulled a solar car from Niagara Falls to the Ontario legislature because he can't drive it in the province.
Marcelo da Luz walked the final six kilometres of his 160-kilometre journey Thursday in hopes the province will make his vehicle street legal.
Wynne said the province is concerned about safety because there was a fatal crash involving a solar car in 2004.
"Every time there's new vehicle or a new conveyance we have to look at what are the safety precautions that we need to put in place and that's all that this is about," she said at Queen's Park Thursday. "So I'm happy to have the conversation with him and would love to see the car."
Da Luz says the province has too many rules that make it virtually impossible for him to drive the car in Ontario, even though he's driven it around North America.
So he tied a harness to his back and spent 11 days physically pulling the 213-kilogram car all the way to the legislature in protest.
Total strangers would cheer encouragement as he walked along his route.
Da Luz says Ontario as a whole is doing a good job when it comes to green technology but the Ministry of Transportation needs to get up to speed.
He says Ontario is discouraging solar energy specialists from working in the province.
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