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VICTORIA — New Democrats could not have asked for a better starting point from which to reform public auto insurance than the report left behind by the B.C. Liberals.

Late last year, the Liberals commissioned the accounting firm of Ernst and Young (EY) to do an independent review of the growing financial pressures on rates at the Insurance Corp. of B.C.

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The findings were returnable within six months, meaning the Liberals expected to be in a position to pick and choose among possible remedies once the election was safely out of the way.

Instead the New Democrats can do the cherry-picking, a process that began Monday with the official release of the 203-page EY report that had already been leaked to The Vancouver Sun last week.

Not surprisingly the cabinet minister for ICBC, Attorney-General David Eby, began his response by taking a swipe at the former government for letting a “grave financial crisis at ICBC fester for at least two years.”