Globe and Mail: In the spring of 2008 the hottest issue in the province was the Liberal government’s newly introduced carbon tax. Campaigning against it on a provincewide tour, NDP Leader Carole James found the farther she got from Vancouver, the louder the protest was. In towns such as Fort St. John, Houston and Dease Lake, where people drive gas-guzzling trucks because their ranching and resource jobs require them, the anger was palpable. Liberal popularity was collapsing in the heartland and it …