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VICTORIA — On the day the New Democrats and Greens announced their power-sharing agreement last year, Premier Christy Clark called a pre-emptive press conference to say how the B.C. Liberals would respond to the threat to bring down her government.

“We have a duty to meet the house and to test its confidence and I intend to do that in very short order,” the premier told reporters on May 30.

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“Should the government fail the test of confidence in the house, as seems likely, I would be given the job of leader of the Opposition. And I’m more than ready and willing to take that job on.”

What she was not ready and willing to do — or so she claimed — was to seek a rematch at the ballot box by asking the lieutenant-governor to call a second election.

Clark said it once when a reporter asked: “Are you saying that you wouldn’t, once the government is defeated, ask the LG to go back to the polls? You would be happy to allow the other two parties to form government?”