Norway’s assets, California’s politics

Handshake at the threshold. Premier David Eby congratulates Niki Sharma on her appointment as British Columbia's Attorney General at Government House in Victoria, December 7, 2022. Within two years she would also become Deputy Premier — the province's chief law officer and second-ranking politician, whose most recent pre-politics role had been running oil and gas campaigns for a Pacific coast anti-pipeline organisation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

British Columbia has the energy endowment to be a global success story. Instead it has spent seven years following the cautionary playbook — and the evidence is now impossible to ignore.