text: @bob adamson:  I would agree with your concluding statement but for the fact that the federal and BC partners to which you allude simply don't exist.  I think it will require a principled, trustworthy pragmatist like Premier Notley to get things done.
  
  I would add to your points (c) that we also need a progressive, determined stand to stop the giveaway of our resources and infrastructure to private capital - i.e. the incremental but definite movement toward public ownership of all core assets and infrastructure (which may well be developed and operated in partnership with the private sector - hybrid socialism, if you will).