Do not confuse a champagne socialist like Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson (aka Mayor Moonbeam and a former BC NDP MLA) or BC NDP minor leaguer Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan with the rest of BC.

In the last provincial election the BC NDP snatched defeat from the jaws of victory when then BC NDP leader Adrian Dix in the latter part of the campaign came out against the Kinder Morgan pipeline in an attempt to woo the Green vote.  It is known in BC political lore as Dix's "Kinder Morgan Surpise".

Dix succeeded in causing BC voters to flee in great numbers to the Christy Clark led  BC Liberals who were returned with an resounding and increased majority mandate.  The BC voters suddenly remebered the economic disasters of the last BC NDP government.  As a result the BC NDP are Dixless and BC continues to lead the country economically under Premier Christy Clark..