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VICTORIA — Former B.C. Liberal leader Gordon Wilson is threatening to sue Premier John Horgan over comments Horgan made about Wilson’s work for the vanquished Liberal government.

The new NDP government fired Wilson last week as the province’s $150,000-a-year “LNG Buy B.C. Advocate.”

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Jobs Minister Bruce Ralston said the new government did a review of Wilson’s work and couldn’t find any written reports he produced.

“It’s very difficult to see that he accomplished anything other than to cash his cheques,” Ralston said.

Horgan later piled on, telling CBC Radio that Wilson produced “no briefings, no reports, no memoranda” during his job promoting the liquefied natural gas industry in B.C.

Wilson said he wasn’t hired to write reports, but insisted there was extensive documentation of his work.

“To suggest there is nothing on file that shows what I was doing is just a flat-out falsehood — it impugns my reputation,” said Wilson, who collected $550,000 during his time as LNG advocate.