A cabinet order coming very shortly will send the rebate idea to the B.C. Utilities Commission and give it 10 days to review whether this is the best possible use of $400 million.
To protest the lack of independent oversight and the transparent vote-buying underway in Premier David Eby’s Wednesday announcement, I will be returning the upcoming $110 ICBC rebate as a matter of conscience.Of course I’ll take it. So will everyone else. Who’s going to argue over a free gas fill-up?
It’s the fact they are jamming it through with zero oversight, even though there’s a nominally independent agency that is supposed to scrutinize ideas like this.They’ll barely have time to buy a new rubber stamp for all the approval forms. They have quasi-judicial functions, but “they operate ultimately as part of the executive branch of government under the mandate of the legislature,” an official said.
It is a good idea, because Eby says it is a good idea. And he says it’s a good idea because it fulfils his plan announced when he became premier to demonstrate progress “in ways you’ll be able to see and feel.” It stripped people of the right to sue in many cases and capped some claims, but has saved billions of dollars and gave ICBC room to cut rates, freeze rates and hand out the rebates.
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