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The B.C. Liberals raised over $300,000 in the two days immediately following the announcement of an NDP-Green partnership designed to topple Christy Clark’s government.

On May 29, Green Leader Andrew Weaver announced he would take his party’s three seats and support a new government led by NDP Leader John Horgan and his 41 seats. Together, the Greens and NDP won 44 seats in the province’s May 9 election, just one more than the Liberals 43.

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On May 30 and 31, the Liberals raised $337,917.21, much of it from large corporations that will no longer be allowed to donate, if the NDP-Greens take power and eliminate corporate and union donations, as they pledged to during the election.

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One of the largest donors is Coastal GasLink, a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada that is trying to build a 670-kilometre pipeline from Dawson Creek to the proposed LNG facility near Kitimat. Coastal GasLink gave the Liberals $10,500. The Kitimat LNG facility faces uncertainty in the aftermath of the election, as Horgan supports it but Weaver has expressed opposition.