Legendary crooner Frank Sinatra once famously sang, “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.”

He was, of course, alluding to the Big Apple, but conservatives here in Canada could say the exact same words about Vancouver Island: a granola-munching, tree-hugging eco-socialist hinterland that makes the big city on the other side of the Strait of Georgia look like Pinochet-era Santiago by comparison.