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Horgan isn’t the only leader who appears to be in campaign mode.

Both Clark and B.C. Greens leader Andrew Weaver visited the hotly contested Site C mega-project Tuesday. Weaver opposes the $8.8 billion hydroelectric project, which has proceeded under Clark’s watch.

On Monday, the Liberals announced reversals on key policy issues, mimicking some of the NDP and Greens’ campaign promises.

The Liberals promised to ban corporate and union donations to political parties, lift a 10-year freeze on welfare rates, and nixed its requirement for a referendum before imposing any new taxes for public transit projects.

Horgan criticized Clark for the flip-flop on Tuesday, saying if she really cared about those issues, she would have campaigned on them instead of championing them now that it’s politically expedient.

During the hour-long town hall, Horgan tackled questions on housing affordability, Site C, transit and infrastructure projects, poverty and the stability of a minority government.

Horgan said the motivation for him and Weaver to form an alliance and stand by that pact is to prove to people that a minority government can work and should not be feared.

“We should embrace a minority government,” he said. “We should not fear having to make trade-offs to each other. Issues will divide us always, but values will always unite us.”

Horgan said he isn’t worried about any of the Green MLAs defecting to the Liberals in light of the party’s recent policy reversals.

He dismissed the Liberals’ claim that an NDP-Green government would be unstable, and accused Clark of dragging out the issue in order to create uncertainty and speculation.

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