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VICTORIA — B.C.’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General David Eby is juggling several high-priority items under the new NDP administration, including electoral reform, auto insurance and campaign finance reform.

Eby, a lawyer who worked with the Pivot Legal Society and was director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, sat down with Postmedia News recently to discuss his new file.

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Q: On ICBC, you have ruled out moving to a no-fault insurance model, but a recent Ernst & Young report focused on a hybrid idea of capping claims. Are we heading in that direction?

A: “The problem has been the corporation has failed at front-line response of really major claims to the point that people more and more often are hiring lawyers. So if you roll in to ICBC and say the problem is the lawyers you are cutting off the one avenue people have had to get the rehabilitation and support that they need. So that’s why no-fault is really off the table for me.