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Update: B.C. Premier John Horgan and Jobs Minister Bruce Ralston later issued public apologies to Gordon Wilson. Here’s a link to a story about those apologies.

VICTORIA – B.C.’s new NDP government fired former Liberal leader Gordon Wilson from a well-paid advisory job on Tuesday, citing a lack of written work. But Wilson argued that was not a true measurement of his performance.

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Jobs Minister Bruce Ralston said an internal review concluded there’s no evidence of any written reports to back up the $550,000 that Wilson had been paid as the “LNG – Buy B.C. advocate” since 2013.

“His contract has been reviewed. We were unable to locate any written reports by him setting out what he had done to earn that money, so the decision has been to end the contract,” said Ralston.

The review concluded that “apparently he reported orally” on the progress of his work.

“But there’s not even notes of that,” said Ralston.