Point and shoot is an attitude, an approach to photography; it is not – nor to my mind should it be – a category of cameras.

But harmonizing provincial and federal sales taxes is undeniably the right way to go. It’s simple and efficient, and made fair via targeted credits and rebates for low-income earners. The overwhelming weight of economic research shows that a broadly based value-added tax, such as the HST, is the least damaging way for government to raise the revenue it needs for such things as schools, roads and health care.

No one likes playing taxes, but moving back to a separate PST and GST model for BC is a downright dumb idea. Also, do the math people. If you have 2 separate taxes on your bill, last I checked 5% + 7% still equals 12%.