What's your problem "priggly", bad experience on a motorcycle? If we want to generalize, we can just go ahead and assume that anyone that would use the name "priggly" is a pretentious, self serving know-it-all who's probably more of a danger on the road than 99% of the population. There are numerous people that have been safely driving motorcycles for decades. Like and modes of transportation, there are people that abuse the privilege of driving. People that drive motorcycles are generally MORE aware of their surroundings, because being oblivious gets you killed. It usually translates into people that do their shoulder checks in cars as well, because they're used to it, not like the friggen Tim Hortons sipping drones like yourself who, we can assume, don't use signal lights, or check blind spots.
As for the insurance issue, that's nothing but a tax grab and there's no justification for it. It should be challenged in court as to it's validity. Quebec is going to kill the industry there, as funny as it is, because Bombardier is based there. They won't stop with motorcycles, just watch, they'll put the recreation industry in the ground with these stupid rates. Ban smoking, it burns billions of dollars in health care costs, far more than what they're claiming here. If they want to fix the problem, limit CC's of beginners, take mandatory driver training courses, and graduated licenses. People get hurt on bikes usually to lack of experience, and getting on a bike that is far to powerful for their skill levels.
