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VICTORIA — When Green MLA Sonia Furstenau announced her bid for the party leadership on Monday, she included a long recitation of things that the current government has gotten wrong.

The New Democrats have granted massive subsidies to development of a liquefied natural gas industry, as Furstenau sees it.

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They eliminated bridge tolls when the money would have been better spent developing transit.

They’ve poured billions into constructing a hydroelectric dam at Site C on the Peace River instead of promoting smaller-scale, renewable power projects around the province.

They have shortchanged funding for the current round of bargaining with teachers, and allowed the forest sector to slide into crisis.

There’s still too much child poverty and “staggering rates of homelessness.”

On and on she went, prompting the obvious question from the assembled news media:

If Furstenau becomes leader of the Greens later this year, would she go on propping up a government with so many shortcomings and failings on so many issues?