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VICTORIA — The day began with an invitation from the New Democrats to drop by their offices at the legislature for a chat with Opposition leader John Horgan about the “fall session.”

What fall legislative session? One was provided for as a hypothetical possibility on the official legislative calendar. But the B.C. Liberals never bothered calling MLAs back to their desks for the real thing. Which, of course, was precisely the NDP’s point.

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“This should have been the end of a productive fall session,” as Horgan was quoted in the followup press release. “But Christy Clark has been focused on her election campaign instead of the problems she’s created by neglecting the most serious issues faced by people in the province.”

Making the most of the premier’s reluctance to subject her government to scrutiny on the floor of the house, Horgan outlined some of the issues he and his colleagues would have raised in the 24 question periods associated with a standard-issue fall session.