Opposition BC Conservatives are swinging for the fences over the NDP government’s new emergency tariff legislation, saying it makes Premier David Eby a dictator, a king, and the head of a tyrannical and unaccountable government.

Those are just a few of the comments in a blitz of online videos, petitions and advertisements the Conservatives have put out since the bill landed last Thursday. The issue appears to have galvanized and fired up the opposition party at a time it is still reeling from internal dissent and the departure of three MLAs to sit as independents.

“Eby wants to be BC’s dictator,” Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Kiel Giddens posted on social media. Giddens added a quote from 17th century French judge Montesquieu: “There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”

Langley-Abbotsford MLA Harman Bhangu called the new legislation a “desperate power grab.”

“He’s making himself king,” Bhangu said in a video posted online. “He’s dodging scrutiny to push through more of his failing........

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