Horgan has Green tinge

I watched the B.C. Legislature soap opera question period the day the federal government took provisional ownership of Kinder Morgan.

Premier John Horgan was present and instead of asking finance minister Carol James to take questions aimed at him, as I have witnessed in watching several other episodes of question period, Horgan actually showed leadership and took the questions himself.

Sadly, that’s where leadership ended.

Horgan continually deflected opposition questions on the Kinder Morgan bailout as a federal government decision and if B.C. Liberal MLAs did not like the federal decision, Liberal MLAs should resign their provincial seat and run as federal Liberals in the next federal election.

He suggested that they could challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal finance minister Bill Morneau in Parliament.

Horgan would not accept any responsibility for the bailout of Kinder Morgan.

After watching this soap opera performance in the B.C. Legislature, I was left wondering whether Horgan is a Green politician hiding in the orange colours of the B.C. NDP.

If I had a chance to question Horgan, I would ask him when he was going to resign his B.C. NDP seat and challenge Andrew Weaver for the leadership of the B.C. Greens.

Wayne Martineau Fraser Lake

If I had a chance to question Horgan, I would ask him when he was going to resign his B.C. NDP seat and challenge Andrew Weaver for the leadership of the B.C. Greens.