The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday, Dec. 3, edition that when former NDP leader Adrian Dix stunned his party and the electorate with his surprising decision to come out against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline in the early stages of the 2013 provincial election, it became a defining moment of the campaign. The Globe's Gary Mason writes that until then, Mr. Dix had insisted he would not take a position until the proponent of the project had submitted its formal application to government. Worried about voter support slipping to the Green Party, Mr. Dix did an about-face. As it turned out, it was a fundamental miscalculation, which resulted in Premier Christy Clark's surprising victory. Mr. Mason suspects Mr. Horgan would support the project if he felt that would not incite a rebellion among the enviro-forces in his caucus -- but it would. The fact that he waffled on the project before opposing it unequivocally gave Ms. Clark the chance to claim the NDP is anti-jobs. Ms. Clark will also try to turn the pipeline issue into a mini-referendum on leadership. What people want, she has begun saying, is "consistency from their leader," not fickleness and shiftiness.