It's amazing and revealing that this story in our "National Newspaper" is not prompting any more than a couple of responses.

That Carole James is traveling to Toronto, Montreal and New York is very important. She knows that. BC needs finances to do anything except raise taxes. BC has massive debt servicing notes that can become painfully more expensive if rates rise and those rates are set in those eastern cities - always have been.

With all due respect to Carole James, her professions are listed as a school trustee and a asocial worker. She comes from a village of 2,000 people.

Who are the financial experts she's taking on the trip?