BC’s Attorney General says ICBC is poised for a break-even year after the first quarter of the fiscal year.

“Astonishing progress in two short years,” said David Eby, speaking on NL Newsday, who admits there’s a lot of work ahead, and he’s up for the challenge.

The BC Liberals allege that rates have gone up 18 per cent in two and a half years under the NDP, and that they need to start fixing some of the problems they’ve created.

“I accept the work,” he added. “What I don’t accept is listening to the BC Liberals tell me they think they can do a better job after leaving us with the mess they left us with.”

Eby also said the province is working with experts on a number of initiatives to brings costs down as much as possible.

“Everything from road safety to ICBC’s internal costs, auto body repair costs and particularly legal costs, and that’s just administration, that’s not actually payment of benefits to anybody.”

He also says that the insurance rates for some drivers in the province are still too high.

“So we have certainly a huge responsibility now that we’ve stabilized ICBC’s finances.”

Eby had told NL in September that the government’s first job was to ‘stabilize the finances at ICBC.