Not to open a different can of worms... but I liken it to public versus private auto insurance... as you Albertans know... you take it up the hoop for your insurance... while those of us under public insurance get off pretty easy... it's actually something the government does better than private companies do.

The big problems with public insurance being things like the monopoly, where the insurer starts saying things like "If you don't have an immobilizer, we won't insure you!" and "We won't pay out your claim, your car had an immobilizer, it COULDN'T have been stolen!"... (a hot topic for Manitobans, as MPI starts making the addition of 3rd party vehicle immobilizers being hacked into your car mandatory, and refusing to take any responsibility for the problems they cause)

Bren R.