BY BILL PHILLIPS
Writer’s Block
Quote of the week goes to Premier David Eby. When asked what he thought of federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s request for British Columbia to not accept the federal carbon tax increase at the end of the month, he quipped: “I don’t live in the Conservative campaign office or Poilievre’s baloney factory.”
Ouch. A zinger, indeed.
But then, as with the entire debate over the carbon tax, it devolved into the surreal and the absurd.
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