I do not think BC was ever the poor child, though I would agree, from what I understand, that relatively speaking, it is doing better than it was in the '90's.

BC's election is BC's election and I am not from or living in BC. However, I am concerned about a carbon tax applied by BC that could initiate a chain reaction of retaliatory measures within Canada. I hope the voters of BC reject the part of the idea that could realistically lead to that.  On the international front, absent the effects of cascading retaliations within Canada, it seems like a good way to send Trump a strong message that unilateralism for a one-sided view of "fairness" is a bad way to go. That the world is far larger and more complicated than the NY real estate market.