All but two of B.C.’s 93 MLAs supported the elimination of the carbon tax, but it still took until 1:30 a.m. Tuesday to erase it from the books.

A lot of scores had to be settled, grudges refreshed and names called before the recrimination festival ended and the legislature dragged Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia out of bed and made her wave her hand over the capitulation.

“I want to know where the after party is,” she joked on her way out the door.

Hours later, taxpayers woke up to a bright new day featuring a dramatic drop in gas prices — for a while. The other major impact will become apparent later on — the erosion of revenue projections in the one-month old NDP provincial budget.

That master plan arrived the same day the U.S. tariffs on Canada were supposed to hit. But the clown show that is the U.S. government was so chaotic by then that planning was impossible. So the budget blithely noted: “Given the evolving and fluid situation, (the catastrophic potential impact of tariffs) is not incorporated into the budget.”

Now another “fluid and evolving situation” — the massive about-face on B.C.’s major climate change........

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