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“I feel a little bit like I’m on the Titanic trying to urge our captain to change course so we avoid the icebergs ahead,” lamented John Horgan’s partner.

“I would suggest to him that they’re melting faster than he thought. Instead of charting a safe passage, the captain turns to me and starts telling me about the dinner specials in the dining room. He offers me a free ticket to tonight’s show. That is not what we want in a throne speech.

“Even worse, now the captain is looking straight at the LNG iceberg and hitting ‘accelerate.’”

When cabinet minister Lana Popham, one of the greener New Democrats, began heckling, Weaver fired back.

“This is a member who stood up and told people not to vote for the B.C. Greens because she needed to get elected because she would stop Site C,” said Weaver. “Take a look in the mirror, member, and then we can talk a little bit more about hypocrisy and saying whatever it takes to get elected.”

On and on he went, blast after blast, roasting the New Democrats for being “a government that says one thing and does another.”

Finally after a full hour he wound up with a parting shot against the governing style of his partners in power sharing: “Frankly, right now there’s far too much saying and not enough doing: ‘Do as I say and not as I do.’”

Ironic, that last bit. For less than an hour later, the legislature was plunged into an unexpected vote on the throne speech.

And there, voting to endorse the government agenda for the year, were the three Green MLAs, reliable as ever in their support for the NDP when it really counts, never mind what their leader says the rest of the time.

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