Electric school buses at the Lion Electric assembly plant in Saint-Jerome, Que., in August, 2023.

The Quebec government has ordered school buses made by beleaguered Lion Electric Co. LEV-T off the roads for emergency inspection, leaving thousands of students in the province without transportation Friday and complicating the company’s efforts to revive its business.

The provincial government issued the directive late Thursday evening, saying a “defect” could be the cause of a Lion bus catching fire in Montreal earlier this week. Six children and a driver were inside the vehicle at the time, but no one was injured.

The decision was made to pull 1,200 Lion buses in the province out of service as a “preventative measure,” Quebec Education Minister Sonia LeBel and Transport Minister Jona

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