From: bo774@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   Kato (kato@kato.org) writes:   
   > You must be a socialist demanding government run insurance like they have in   
   > other provinces.   
      
   You must be a right wing nut gla to pay much more, for less.   
      
   The Socreds and the so called BC Liberals have had plenty of time to dismantle   
   ICBC. Both seem to have come across something which changed their mind.   
      
   Apart giving safe drivers the lowest rates in the country ICBC also pays much   
   of the costs of driver and vehicle registration for the governent.   
      
   ICBC also pays for road upgrades, and police staff time for enforcement blitzes   
   against drunk drivers and speeders.   
      
   The Socreds, in particular, were very right wing, conservative.   
      
   Despite that ICBC is still around 4 decades after it was created.   
      
   There is a paid PR shill for the Insurance Council of Canada who keeps   
   posting in newsgroups without mentioning who pays his salary. Every time   
   he provided a url and invited BC residents to compare rates I called his   
   bluff. Private Insurance rates in other provinces were always much higher,   
   for less coverage, than ICBC.   
      
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