Well Richard, get ready to pay a lot more if the NDP or Greens are able to push their agendas through.  BC residents are among the lowest-taxed in the country (check out taxtips.ca and see what you'd be paying elsewhere).  I've been in BC for 22 years - and the last 16 years have been far better than the previous 6 (when the socialists were busy tanking the province).