Harper doesn't know Jack...or Carole.

With the Federal Election about three weeks away, and Stephane Dion's Liberals in freefall, Stephen Harper is pulling out all the stops to secure a Conservative majority, including a stop in Vancouver yesterday to attack the hard-charging NDP. The Prime Minister's weapon of choice was a claim so disconnected from the political reality of this province: Federal New Democrats are not like the populist, poll winning BCNDP. This page offers a thousand words and then some to refute Harper's pathetic attempt to drive a wedge among New Democrats in British Columbia:

Those of you who may not recognize the woman in red raising Jack Layton's hand, that would be Carole James, Leader of the B.C. New Democrats, and possibly the first woman to be elected Premier of B.C. on May 12, 2009*. While Stephen Harper may be scoring points of Stephane Dion's proposed Carbon Tax in British Columbia because James and the NDP gave the B.C. Liberals a severe thrashing over Gordon Campbell's Carbon Tax, the Prime Minister is ignoring the fundamentals behind opposing the Carbon Tax. New Democrats at the Provincial AND Federal level oppose a Carbon Tax when it punishes working families who need to commute and heat their homes and are forced to watch those revenues finance more tax cuts for the wealthy. The Conservatives oppose any Carbon Tax because it pisses off their friends in Big Oil and may slow down their 'progress' in reducing Northern Alberta to a giant toxic crater.

This page has worked on a few election campaigns for the NDP at the Provincial and Federal level in B.C., and I can declare that the same people I worked with getting Jenny Kwan elected to Victoria are the same people I worked with getting Libbie Davies to Ottawa. Unlike Gordon Campbell and the B.C. Liberals, an Anti-Union Mercenary Hit Squad made up of Federal Liberals, Tories, and refuse from the Social Credit era, the NDP is an actual political party who spit every time someone mentions disgusting hypocritical sellouts like Ujjal Dosanjh or Bob Rae.

New Democrats in B.C. are all the same shade of orange, no matter what our divide n' conquer Prime Minister thinks. Can Stephen Harper say the same thing about his 'fellow' Conservative on Canada's opposite coast, Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams?

*Rita Johnston holding the flaming bag for the Socreds in 1991 obviously doesn't count.