BC drivers to get $110 one-time ICBC rebate, commercial drivers will get $165

Rich or poor, drivers doing 1000 or 25000km, same amount. Cool! I barely drive 10000km a year. My commute is 5.5km in 8 minutes. Meanwhile increase the revenue "neutral" carbon tax some more.

so short sighted, better off spending money elsewhere like i dunno roads maintenance and infrastructure, drug crisis, affordable housing, education, child care etc.

What a blatant attempt to buy votes for Doug Ford in the upcoming election

Oh wait, wrong province.

I wonder if my wife will get another $110 too. We have a policy for each of us. She's working from home

Wait, so if I drive an EV I’d still qualify for the rebate as long as I had a basic auto insurance policy during the month of February? Sounds good to me

We'll take it!

louisv1 wrote: ↑ Wait, so if I drive an EV I’d still qualify for the rebate as long as I had a basic auto insurance policy during the month of February? Sounds good to me

If governments would be companies they would be bankrupt within a week. Good thing they have our yearly taxes to **** with.

I’m an NDP supporter, but I disagree with things that reduce or offset the costs associated with using climate-changing products. If there is money to be given out, give a smaller amount to every British Columbian, don’t target money to people who contribute to climate change.

Include those people who use transit rather than private vehicles. Include those people who use non-carbon transportation like bicycles and/or electric bikes. Include people who chose to live close to where they work so that they don’t need transportation services. All of these people are affected by prices for food, etc. that have increased due to fuel costs. Note that food costs are also increasing due to climate change.

I feel a letter to my MLA coming on.

I'm a (comparatively speaking) supporter of humanistic policies and therefore the NDP in theory sound fine to me.

But I don't like all these political tricks - sending out our measly ICBC refund checks, now this little stunt. How much does this cost us all? How about the environment?

Didn't they just run up a huge deficit?

Most Governments are disappointing.

MexiCanuck wrote: ↑ I’m an NDP supporter, but I disagree with things that reduce or offset the costs associated with using climate-changing products. If there is money to be given out, give a smaller amount to every British Columbian, don’t target money to people who contribute to climate change.

Include those people who use transit rather than private vehicles. Include those people who use non-carbon transportation like bicycles and/or electric bikes. Include people who chose to live close to where they work so that they don’t need transportation services. All of these people are affected by prices for food, etc. that have increased due to fuel costs. Note that food costs are also increasing due to climate change.

I feel a letter to my MLA coming on.

Vancouver Island is very green and environmentally oriented. I suspect they are just out for political brownie points, especially as Horgan made a big song and dance of gas prices when the last Government was in power.

That said, your points are truly very good

That is true, 110 bucks wont to a dent. Why not use all that money for EV charger infrastructure? The article mentioned the word ressession too...

amplified wrote: ↑ so short sighted, better off spending money elsewhere like i dunno roads maintenance and infrastructure, drug crisis, affordable housing, education, child care etc.

They can't... they don't want to be seen doing what they yelled at the previous government for doing - taking money from ICBC for general revenue.

A better use of funds would have been to not take the extra money from us in the first place when we renewed our insurance as we would have saved the overhead of sending out these credits/cheques which may be about the same amount as the value of the rebate!

berrytree wrote: ↑ I'm a (comparatively speaking) supporter of humanistic policies and therefore the NDP in theory sound fine to me.

But I don't like all these political tricks - sending out our measly ICBC refund checks, now this little stunt. How much does this cost us all? How about the environment?

Didn't they just run up a huge deficit?

Most Governments are disappointing.

It gets worse if you include the overhead that each rebate may cost ICBC to process... on the low side, it might be $40 per rebate if things are running efficiently at ICBC which I doubt that's happening so it will probably be more like $80 to $100 per rebate.

Horgan is basically doing what he blamed the previous governments for doing - taking money from ICBC for other purposes. But he is probably thinking that since it's a direct rebate, it's not the same as spending it on other government programs.

So if I have two insured cars do I get 2 x $110? Cost me over $160 yesterday and my tank wasn't even empty!

Right on @craftsman

But what I’m starting to think is these stunts work on the electorate. What does this say about the electorate? Humans are not a superior species

berrytree wrote: ↑ Right on @craftsman

But what I’m starting to think is these stunts work on the electorate. What does this say about the electorate? Humans are not a superior species

They do work on the electorate ONLY (and it's a big ONLY) if the stunt is big enough and done quickly enough. Judging from the response on various social media platforms as well as normal media outlets, this particular stunt was neither big enough nor done quickly enough so Horgan is actually receiving a lot of bad press on this.

To make matters worse, according to this editorial in the Vancouver Sun - Vaughn Palmer: Rebates a case of too little, too late from John Horgan's government , just a few short months ago, the money that was given out was still needed to shore up ICBC's finances. Suddenly, according to the government and ICBC (after a meeting with the government overloads I would assume), everything is just peachy. Sounds a whole lot like they are trying to cover their tracks after being caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

Sounds like a political stunt. “A free tank of gas for everyone. Vote me.”

2.64M B.C. drivers still waiting for gas rebate announced in March
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/2-64m-b-c-drivers ... -1.5978218

Maybe issuing millions of credit card refunds/bank account credits/cheques is a very challenging project even though they have done it before?

Maybe too many cooks in the kitchen (Premier, Ministers, ICBC themselves, 3rd party contractor). Dunno.