Please Margaret, don't lump the rest of BC in with the self-satisfied bunch west of Hope. Most of BC is open for business. It's just the lower mainlanders and islanders who seem to think they don't need any resource-based business (as long as their house prices continue to go up).

On another note - where are the federal NDP on all of this? 2 provincial NDP parties at each other's throats and nary a word from the Fed NDP. You would think that Mulcair would be harshly criticizing Notley and telling her to ditch the oil industry and just get on with the "new economy" (whatever that is). I smell a total chickens#!%. Could it be they really don't have a policy on resource development - or is it all in that wonderful Leap Manifesto?