BC GETS WHAT IT WANTED; DOES NOT LIKE IT

Horgan became premier just under two years ago, and has had all that time to get along with Rachel Notley, a fellow New Democrat who served as Alberta’s premier until Kenney displaced her two weeks ago. He couldn’t manage it. Notley was a big champion of measures to protect the environment and reduce Alberta’s outsized production of greenhouse-gas emissions. She couldn’t do it alone, however, and needed co-operation from like-minded leftists like Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They both failed her, Horgan spectacularly so. By doing all he could to obstruct the Trans Mountain pipeline, he significantly impeded efforts to revive Alberta’s economy and win public support for other emissions-reduction programs. That in turn fed the discontent that resulted in Kenney’s defeat of Notley and support for his pledge to play just as nasty as B.C. has been doing.