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The quick read: A leaked letter reveals the BC Conservatives would, if elected on October 24, legislate within a year to repeal the NDP's 2021 no-fault ICBC system and restore your right to sue after a crash. Private competition is "on the table." Eby calls it a "secret plan with trial lawyers."

Your car insurance could be the sleeper issue of this election.

The Canadian Press reports on a leaked September 29 letter from BC Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson, sent to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the Law Society of BC, the Trial Lawyers Association of BC, and the Canadian Bar Association.

The commitment is plain: a Conservative government would, within a year of taking office, repeal the NDP's 2021 no-fault ICBC system and restore accident victims' right to sue, under what Doerkson calls a "hybrid system."

Everything is on the table, he writes, including private competition with the government monopoly.

The letter was leaked by the union representing ICBC workers, which tells you whose interests feel threatened here.

NDP Leader Eby fired back immediately, calling it a "secret plan with trial lawyers" and arguing that no-fault insurance lowered and froze rates for drivers.

That claim deserves scrutiny, but so does the other side. No-fault traded lower premiums for something real: if ICBC's own system wrongs you, your right to your day in court is gone.

A government monopoly deciding both what you pay and what you are owed is a cozy arrangement for the government.

Okanagan drivers should ask themselves one question before October 24: do you trust ICBC to treat you fairly when no court can overrule it?

Private competition is the part of this story the NDP will not talk about. More insurers competing for your business is how prices fall in every other industry on earth.

Whatever your politics, this one hits your wallet directly. Read the platforms, not the slogans.

Source: iNFOnews via The Canadian Press, October 6, 2026.