One of my favourite movies is Tombstone, the story of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. The best line: ol' Doc, looking at his dear friend and saying, "Apparently, Wyatt, my hypocrisy knows no bounds."

Yesterday, we saw plenty of that hypocrisy on display from BC's political leaders.

So the BC Liberals are attacking BC Conservative leader John Cummins for “double-dipping”: taking a federal pension while leading a provincial party.

According to Canadian Taxpayer Federation calculations, Cummins started with a $102,169 annual pension payout, which grows at least 3% per year. If he lives to be 80, Cummins will have collected more than $1.3 million in pension from taxpayers.

(To make you feel even worse, Gilles Duceppe, who spent his life trying to break up Canada, will receive $2.9 million in pension benefits from Canadian taxpayers.)

Of course, the BC Liberals don’t have a leg to stand on here. They brought back a gold-plated pension plan for MLAs, which resulted in Premier Gordon Campbell starting his pension at $100,000 a year. Campbell double dips himself as the new High Commissioner to London, earning federal salary and benefits on top of his BC taxpayer-funded pension.

The BC NDP, by the way, will likely keep their mouth shut on double-dipping as their MLA, and former interim party leader, Dawn Black collects an MLA paycheque on top of a federal MP pension that pays her more than $45,000 a year.

So Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals attack John Cummins and the BC Conservatives (after months of Cummins attacking them), while Adrian Dix and the BC NDP act dismayed over the negativity, quietly pushing their bowl of Christy Crunch under the table.

I just wish they’d all be quiet and get back to governing this province, and providing a principled, intelligent opposition. With billions in deficits to erase, we need these leaders to be focused on the job at hand: balancing the provincial budget. And since we all seem to agree that double-dipping on taxpayer pensions is so heinous—let’s start cutting there.