text: The latest Canadian GDP print, driven by mining and mineral exploration is unlikely to be replicated if the NDP/Green policies are enacted: "Mineral exploration and evaluation (+13.7%) rose sharply following eight consecutive quarters of decline, primarily due to increased activity in oil and gas." Policies such as adopting the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples as cited in Mr Mason's article is impractical and unworkable - there is a reason why the federal Liberals, despite their understandable sympathy with FN causes, walked away from it. Handing a veto on resource development to this, or any other single, constituency is a mistake. The malign hand of Naomi Klein and her LEAP Manifesto cohort is at play. The good news is that in making BC's economy unrecognisable the Greens/NDP will probably make themselves unelectable.  A timely reminder why the NDP has been out of power so long and only managed to scrape back in via coalition.