1.  Bill 6:  So new WCB premiums is the answer to that?  Hardly.  The families prefer to look after themselves, and they do.  
2.  Decreasing tax rates during boom times makes sense.  Increasing tax rates during recessions does not.
3.  The reduction in hours (or even outright layoffs) will hurt the very people the increase was intended to help.  Yes, those who will be unaffected by reduced hours will be better off.  The others will not.  
4.  Big Oil bought into the carbox tax = social license for pipeline expansion bargain as  a new cost of doing business.   If the bargain is scuttled by BC (Ont/QUE), then don't expect their support for the carbon tax to be maintained.
5.  Provinces routinely pay for proactive risk mitigation (Red River Floodway, anyone?)  It's akin to a public utility/good.