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CONTACT PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND THE REGULATOR

Put the unanswered questions in writing.

Choose the office that fits your question. Provincial offices and the Insurance Council are closest to the B.C. RIA framework; federal contacts are listed separately for related federal issues. The builder creates editable correspondence and leaves the decision to send it with you.

JANUARY 1, 2027 IS THE ENACTED COMMENCEMENT DATE · CORRESPONDENCE REMAINS OPEN

The Council rule consultation has closed, but members of the public and affected businesses can still contact elected representatives and the regulator. This page provides official routes for B.C. MLAs, the provincial Finance Minister, the Premier, the Insurance Council, MPs, the federal Finance Minister and the Prime Minister. Federal offices are secondary contacts because the B.C. RIA licence itself is provincial. This page does not claim that correspondence guarantees a response, policy change or formal legislative record.

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OFFICIAL CONTACT DIRECTORY

Choose the office that fits the question.

Start with the provincial office or regulator responsible for the B.C. record. Federal contacts are included for related federal questions and are clearly labelled as secondary jurisdiction.

YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

Find Your B.C. MLA

Use the Legislative Assembly’s official directory to identify the MLA for your constituency and their published contact information.

Open official MLA directory ↗
FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY REPRESENTATIVE · SECONDARY JURISDICTION

Find Your MP

Use the House of Commons directory to find a current Member of Parliament by name, constituency or postal code. MPs do not administer the B.C. RIA licence; use this route for related federal questions.

Open official MP directory ↗
CABINET SPONSOR

Minister of Finance

The regulation was approved by Order in Council. The template asks whether regulatory-impact, small-business and consumer-outcome analysis exists and requests releasable details.

FIN.Minister@gov.bc.ca

Open pre-filled minister email ↗
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT

Office of the Premier

An additional provincial contact route for questions about the policy rationale, implementation and cross-government economic considerations.

Premier@gov.bc.ca

Open pre-filled premier email ↗
STATUTORY REGULATOR

Insurance Council of B.C.

The Council’s published RIA materials include the proposed rules. Submit implementation questions on monitoring, data access, training, supervision and compliance requirements.

RIA-licence@insurancecouncilofbc.com

Open pre-filled council email ↗
FEDERAL FINANCE · SECONDARY JURISDICTION

Federal Minister of Finance

Optional federal contact for questions involving federal financial policy or federal consumer-finance issues. The B.C. RIA licensing framework remains provincial.

minister-ministre@fin.gc.ca

Open official Finance Canada contact page ↗
FEDERAL OVERSIGHT

Prime Minister of Canada

Optional federal contact route for questions a reader considers federal in scope. The B.C. RIA licence itself is a provincial framework.

Official PM contact form ↗
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EVIDENCE REQUEST COMPOSER

Assemble your class-specific evidence request.

The composer focuses on the provincial decision-makers and regulator closest to the B.C. RIA framework. Use the federal directory links above separately when your question is genuinely federal.

Step 1 · Recipient Selection

Choose who receives your request

Click a recipient to target your request. Each office receives the identical audit questions with its official salutation.

Find your local B.C. MLA

B.C. MLAs represent specific electoral districts (constituencies). Open the official directory to identify your constituency representative and published contact information, then paste the address below if you want the builder to prepare the email link:

Open Official B.C. MLA Directory ↗

Step 2 · Statutory Business Class

Select your prescribed industry

The regulation establishes 18 distinct classes. Selecting your class automatically inserts your industry name and statutory product family into the evidence request.

Step 3 · Evidence Questions

Select the questions included in your letter

Every checked question requests a specific baseline, denominator, or cost methodology from the relevant office. All 9 are included by default.

Step 4 · Review and Edit

Your editable evidence request

This text updates live as you change selections above. You can also edit the text directly before emailing or copying it. Nothing is sent until you choose to open your mail app.

SUBJECT:Request for evidence and implementation details - B.C. Restricted Insurance Agency framework
274 words · 2003 characters
Open in your email app ↗
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EVIDENCE REQUEST COPY

The 9-point evidence request.

Review the exact questions in the default template. Edit, copy or send only the wording you choose.

SOURCED EVIDENCE REQUEST · READY FOR REVIEW
Request for evidence and implementation details - B.C. Restricted Insurance Agency framework
Subject: Request for evidence and implementation details - B.C. Restricted Insurance Agency framework

I am writing to request clarification and publication of the evidence supporting the B.C. Restricted Insurance Agency framework and its implementation.

In particular, please identify or publish:

1. The analysis calibrating the proposed 30% compensation-disclosure breakpoint.
2. The consumer outcome(s) that will define success, and the outcome(s) that would trigger review or adjustment.
3. The B.C. pre-implementation baseline for affected businesses and consumers.
4. The final expected direct compliance cost by business size, including licence, training, E&O, systems and staff time.
5. The implementation and monitoring model, including whether DMS or transaction-level data will be required and who will perform monitoring or enforcement.
6. The jurisdictional evidence reviewed, including what was learned from New Brunswick after its 2023 implementation.
7. The analysis of competitive effects across OEM-affiliated and independent third-party product channels.
8. Any rule, policy, insurer requirement, or analysis that would change the duration, renewal, or re-enrolment of creditor life, disability, Critical Health (critical illness), or job-loss coverage, including any one-year term requirement.
9. Any economic-impact analysis covering employment, payroll, dealership profitability, lender effects, tax bases, product availability, and where reduced dealer remuneration is expected to flow.

I am not asking you to accept a forecast of harm or benefit. I am asking for the evidence, denominators, assumptions and evaluation criteria so the policy can be assessed against measurable outcomes.

Thank you.
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THE FOI KIT

Request the underlying records.

The Insurance Council identifies itself as a public body subject to B.C.'s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act ↗ (opens in a new tab). A request starts a statutory records process, but disclosure can be affected by procedures, fees, extensions, exceptions and exclusions. A response may disclose records, withhold records in whole or part, or report that no responsive records were found. Use the filing contact below. Replace every bracketed field in your own email or document before sending; copying the template does not file a request.

Request the underlying records.

FOI filing contact: Insurance Council of BC Privacy Officer
privacy@insurancecouncilofbc.com

Council access-request instructions Contact checked: .

Copy the template, replace every bracketed field in your own email or document, and send it to the Privacy Officer. Copying does not submit a request.

To: Privacy Officer, Insurance Council of British Columbia <privacy@insurancecouncilofbc.com> Subject: FOI request - RIA program records Name: [YOUR NAME] Correspondence address: [YOUR ADDRESS] Email for response: [YOUR EMAIL] Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request the following records held by the Insurance Council of British Columbia relating to the Restricted Insurance Agency licence program: 1. Any needs analysis, harm assessment, or evidence base underlying the design of the RIA program for B.C.; 2. Any fiscal or economic impact modelling of the RIA regime on affected businesses, consumers, or provincial revenues; 3. The fee models under evaluation for RIA licensing, including any costing analyses; 4. A log of consultation submissions received in the 2026 rule consultation and any prepared or draft responses; 5. Records assessing board or staff subject-matter expertise in extended-warranty and dealership F&I products. Timeframe: January 1, 2023 to [END DATE: YYYY-MM-DD]. I request records in electronic form. Please acknowledge receipt and provide a file reference. Please contact me if clarification is needed and provide any applicable fee estimate before proceeding with chargeable processing.

Keep your sent request, acknowledgment or file number, any fee correspondence, and the final response.

Not legal advice. Copying does not submit a request. Check the Council's published filing instructions before sending.

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SPECIALIZED WORKFLOWS

Dossiers, audits and operational response.

Each linked route retains its own instructions, source records, and regulatory boundaries.

EVIDENCE

21-question brief

Review the detailed questions tied to calibration, outcomes, baseline, costs, implementation and falsification conditions.

Open →
RESEARCH

Red-team audit

Open the methodology, source register, publication gates and research limitations behind the public evidence work.

Open →
STAKEHOLDER RECORD

Stakeholder submissions

Read the attributed stakeholder record and its source boundaries on the dedicated canonical page.

Open →
DEALER OPERATIONS

Dealer response planner

Work contribution, replacement capacity, cash timing and implementation records separately from the public case.

Open →
PARTICIPATION

Transparency petition

Open the existing petition page and its own instructions, consent language and formal participation boundaries.

Open →

MECHANUS IQ

Dealership intelligence

Whole-dealership intelligence and an operating system for Canadian automotive and RV dealerships. Machine learning finds the opportunity, MIQ makes the action happen, and the evidence shows what changed.

  • BC RIA dossier · anchored to enacted text
  • Privacy-minimizing intake
  • Human-review boundary
  • Canadian residency by design
  • Application timestamp context

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