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Lorne Gunter: Victims, taxpayers on the hook for UCP government's new car insurance scheme The old axiom, of course, is if something appears too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.

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11.09.2026

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Lorne Gunter: Victims, taxpayers on the hook for UCP government's new car insurance scheme

The old axiom, of course, is if something appears too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.

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I know the provincial government and the Alberta Auto Insurance Rate Board (AIRB) are convinced they have found the magic formula to lower car insurance that has escaped every other reformer and consumer crusader.

But the truth is that reforming auto insurance rates is a game of whack-a-mole. As soon as you suppress one cost,........

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