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“We’re going to look, see what the situation is, and act accordingly and, I think, unlike the Liberals who decided intentionally not to find that out — they didn’t go to the independent regulator. They intentionally tried not to find that out. We need, I think, some independent advice.”

Dix was echoing what his successor as party leader, John Horgan, said in answer to similar questions about Site C earlier this month.

“Well, we haven’t seen the contracts,” Horgan told me. “We won’t see the contracts until we form a government.”

But knowing what he knows now, would he kill Site C?

“Well, we’ll see,” the Opposition leader replied. “We’re a long way from that. I can’t say. What troubles me is the premier is making this a wedge issue when it’s billions of our dollars. It has massive consequences to the land, to our hydro utility. We don’t have a market for the power. And it strikes me that that’s bad policy, it’s bad government, and it’s also bad politics. So we’ll see what it looks like when I get there, but we’re a long way from finishing that (campaign.)”

Back to Dix. During the course of the interview, he offered a lengthy critique of the economics of Site C, insisting the power is not needed and even if it were, there are cheaper alternatives.

“You ask people if they support Site C, as B.C. Hydro recently did, to meet B.C.’s growing electricity demand — well, BC’s electricity demand has been flat for 10 years, and now it’s going down,” Dix said.