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VICTORIA —After giving New Democratic Party Leader John Horgan a pass during the first election debate last week, B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver this week seized the first opportunity to make up for it.

The opening was provided by news that senior managers of Horgan’s campaign were being paid by the United Steelworkers Union. Barely were the details reported Sunday by Rob Shaw of Postmedia News, when Weaver put out a scornful press release.

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“For months, John Horgan has been campaigning on the corrupting influence of big money in B.C. politics, as he claims to be above it all,” the Green leader fumed.

“This election is about trust. How can you trust a leader who publicly talks about how big money corrupts politicians, and then quietly goes into a backroom and strikes a deal with a union to have them pay for his senior staff?”



He was still at it the next day, at the press conference marking the release of the Green party platform for election 2017.