Letter to the Conservation Voters of B.C. re 'Anybody but Carole' campaign

I'm appalled at your organization's wholesale dismissal of Carole James and the NDP Caucus. It's simply untrue that the NDP campaign "...is positioned against world-leading climate policies while not putting forward improvements or better alternatives."

Here is the NDP platform; looks pretty green to me.
---Introduce BC Green Bonds to stimulate jobs and investment in green infrastructure while reducing greenhouse gases.
---Fight climate change by setting hard caps on greenhouse gas emissions by 2010, to achieve a 33% reduction by 2020.
---Build on the work of leading climate change experts to develop a continental cap and trade plan, such as the plan proposed by US President Obama.
---Adopt California's tough vehicle tailpipe emission standards.
---Continue the moratorium on coastal drilling and crude oil tanker traffic on the BC coast.
---Immediately expand transit and alternatives to car use.
---Protect endangered wildlife with BC's first species at risk legislation.
---Restore Gordon Campbell's cuts to water, air and land protection.
---Increase support for our parks.
---Stop Campbell's gutting of the environmental land reserve.
---Restore independence to the Agricultural Land Reserve.
---Protect endangered rivers and watersheds.

By coming out against the NDP you are giving aid and comfort to the Liberals, and if they are re-elected we're going to get: More privatization of B.C. rivers for massive for-profit run-of-river projects like Bute Inlet (how green is that?); expanded fish farms that gobble up millions of tons of small fish that other animals in the sea depend on (how green is that--or don't you care about the rest of the world?); the Gateway Project and the South Fraser perimeter road which will encourage more car and truck traffic (how green is that?); a continuing lack of support for the E&N Railroad, or light rail transit, on Vancouver Island (how green is that?). Frankly, I think you are being totally irresponsible.

And really, you can't have it both ways--you can't say that NDP candidates who haven't been previously elected are okay while their colleagues who are incumbents are not; they are all part of the same party, and they all support Carole James as leader.

Apparently you're willing to sacrifice every other issue--such as the new agricultural regulations which have hurt small, local farmers for the benefit of large corporate farms and food organizations; the closing of schools and the loss of arts and music programs because of provincial underfunding of education; the increasing privatization of health care, and the neglect of seniors' need for extended care--to the carbon tax (and whatever else it is you don't like about the NDP's environmental platform. In doing so, you are, essentially, cutting off your nose to spite your face--or more accurately, cutting off your face to spite your nose. Which would be okay, if it weren't for the fact that the rest of us will suffer for it, if the Liberals get back in.

Shame on you; you are obviously not an organization which can be taken seriously.