The leader of the BC Liberals spent time touring B.C.’s interior and north to listen to concerns and issues of note, and he got an earful.

Andrew Wilkinson says people in the Peace River region told him they are nervously watching to see what nearby Alberta is doing.

“A lot of interest in the Peace in making amends with Alberta so they can get on with the business of producing natural gas, which we all use every day,” he said. “Things are slow in the Peace right now and with the Alberta government having said it is going to drop its corporate income tax rate and make life easier for Albertans, there is a real fear in the Peace that our economy in the north east is going to drain out into Alberta.”

“That is a huge problem for all of British Columbia.”

Wilkinson says people in Fort St John, Revelstoke, and Prince George are upset about what he called the NDP’s high handed approach to trying to save endangered mountain caribou.

He says in Williams Lake with mills closing, people who rely on the forestry industry are also growing increasingly nervous.