As the Pacific Ocean quenched the setting sun just west of Victoria on May 29, 2008, NDP leader Carole James, leader of the Opposition, stood in the legislature and voted ‘Nay’ on the third reading of Gordon Campbell’s Carbon Tax Act, alongside 29 of her colleagues. Their votes were for nought, subsumed by the 41 ‘Yeas’ voiced from the government side of the aisle. But James’ negative vote stood out, for she was turning her back on wisdom she’d offered on television just over three months earlier.
On Valentine’s Day she had said to Vaughn Palmer on Voice of BC: “I think a revenue-neutral carbon tax that really looks
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