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The fingerpointing is underway in earnest after a leaked report warned B.C. motorists will get hit with auto insurance rate hikes of almost 30 per cent in the next two years if the government doesn’t massively overhaul ICBC’s basic insurance system.

The 203-page report by Ernst & Young says drastic measures are needed that could include capping payouts for pain and suffering for minor injuries, re-introducing photo radar, changing red-light cameras so they also catch speeders, boosting police efforts to catch distracted and impaired drivers, and making high-risk drivers pay more for insurance.

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The report was commissioned by ICBC’s board earlier this year while the Liberal government was in power, but was not made public.

The new NDP government, sworn in Tuesday, inherits the ICBC mess.

“The report is a damning indictment of the B.C. Liberals management of ICBC over the last 16 years,” Attorney General David Eby, whose portfolio includes ICBC, said in a statement on Friday. “They’ve left a real mess for us to fix.”