quote: Carbon tax is coming, and anyone who has a serious grasp of environmental issues, knows that a direct tax on polution is probably the only effective market based mechanism for dealing with the issue.

A hard cap is coming if you want to deal with emmissions. A tax does nothing.

The BC NDP will not win or lose the election on their environmental platform.

Its the economy.....

The NDP will have to convince BC voters that they can be trusted to manage the province finances.