Voters are being asked if they wish to keep the current first-past-the-post system or switch to one of three systems of proportional representation.

Can the BC NDP government’s plan to hike the province’s carbon tax to $50 a tonne by 2021 hold up in the face of a growing number of premiers opposed to the very idea of such a tax?

The plan, to be released later this fall, is expected to contain some ambitious targets to reduce B.C.’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Two issues are coming to the fore that may ultimately strain the relationship between the NDP and the party that is propping it up into power.

Not only has the party matured, but it has left behind some internal baggage that dogged it for years.

Much of B.C. will soon be without a bus service and that’s alarming. But should the B.C. government step in and fill the looming void with a taxpayer-subsidized bus program?

Lack of interest may provide the side that opposes switching to a proportional representation a bit of an edge over PR proponents.

Eby is the attorney-general, yet his plate is filled with policies and files that extend well beyond the traditional scope of the province’s top attorney.

The answer is obvious: the NDP is firmly in charge, while the B.C. Greens have settled into a very distant backseat on the government bus.

Whether this works for him will not be known until he tests the electorate next year, but anytime a political leader seems tougher, things tend to work out for the better more often than not.