The Jas Johal Show: Oct. 8, 2026

[upbeat music] Hey, thanks for listening to the Jas Johal Show podcast. Today on the pod, David Eby says your basic car insurance stays frozen until 2030. The Conservatives want to bring back the right to sue. One side says your premiums double. The trial lawyers say crash victims are getting shortchanged. We look into that issue. Plus, Lorne Doerkson himself, the leader of the BC Conservative Party, a man who never ran for leader, could be premier in 16 days. He joins us. Plus, a tenant used to pay your mortgage. Now rents are falling, costs are rising, and Vancouver's foreclosure court has a line out the door. Mortgage broker Ron Butler says the landlord dream is turning into a trap. That's all next on the Jas Johal Show podcast. [whooshing] Let's begin the program and talk ICBC. David Eby wants you thinking about your wallet when it comes to ICBC. In Richmond today, the NDP leader promised to freeze basic ICBC rates for another three years, right through to spring of 2030. That would be a full decade without a basic rate increase, he says. Take a listen.

Um, our government has been focused on British Columbians' cost, the cost of living, uh, for a while. We're the government that took the tolls off the bridge, of course. We cut your childcare costs in half. Uh, we have insured low hydro rates, uh, some of the lowest electricity rates in North America. Uh, we got rid of, uh, medical services plan, uh, MSP charges. Uh, we got rid of the carbon tax. And for income tax, uh, uh, middle income families in British Columbia have the lowest income tax in the entire country. Uh, and we're gonna keep it that way.

Now, that promise didn't land in a vacuum. Yesterday in Surrey, Mr. Eby held up a letter signed by Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson, uh, sent to the trial lawyers, the Law Society, the Bar Association, and the Insurance Bureau of Canada. It pledges to replace no-fault with a hybrid system in the first year, restore the right to, of seriously injured people to sue, and put private insurance on the table. Mr. Eby calls it a secret deal with trial lawyers and warns of Alberta-style premiums. Take a listen to his comments from yesterday.

Says that we'll replace, we will replace the system. The car insurer says, it's not ambiguous. He made a promise in writing to those lawyers that they would get paid again by your money. And he, guess how he finishes the letter? He says that everything is on the table. Well, you know what he means when he says everything is on the table? He means British Columbians are on the table, and he is serving you up to the private interests of trial lawyers and private insurance companies by doubling your insurance in order to win their support without telling you about it. It is disgraceful. It is embarrassing, but worse to be confronted about it and deny it when we have the receipts.

Uh, that was Mr. Eby speaking from yesterday. Now, Lorne Doerkson said that he wasn't promising anything, uh, but he did talk about a potential hybrid system, uh, which could be coming with limits on lawyers' fees. Uh, and he also reiterated that political parties always send letters to clarify their position on major policies, uh, before