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Incumbent Christy Clark and challenger John Horgan lost little time getting to the rough stuff in the first debate of the 2017 election campaign, broadcast Thursday morning on radio and over the Internet.

Less than 10 minutes was gone on the clock at host station News 1130 when the two leaders were at it.

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Clark firing accusations at Horgan over the uncounted billions worth of promises in NDP platform, the taxes he’d have to increase and the jobs and projects he’d cancel.

Horgan firing back with his signature line that “when she gets in a corner she makes stuff up,” riffing on her reliance on chartered jets to get around the province, saying “you don’t know anything but politics” and mocking, mocking, mocking.

Most of the more quotable lines — and broadcastable clips — happened in the first half-hour or so of the 90-minute proceedings

The regrettable moment when Horgan turned to the premier and said: “I’ll just watch you because I know you like that.” (Afterwards, he would explain it as a shot at “a photo op premier … she wants to be the centre of attention.”)