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“You will see some enabling legislation where you won’t see all the detail of the final product in the legislation in the fall,” New Democrat Carole James told Rob Shaw of The Vancouver Sun last week.

“The example of that will be electoral reform. We’ll have legislation come forward that will enable the process to begin, that will start the public consultations. Probably the same for union and corporate donations. But they (the legislation) won’t be finalized until that public consultation has occurred.”

Meaning, presumably, that the promise would not be fully enacted until the 2018 session of the legislature. Nor is that a departure from the language of the agreement, which promised only that legislation would be “introduced” — not necessarily enacted in full — in the first session under the NDP.

But if any of this concerns the NDP’s partners in power-sharing, it doesn’t show in the public comments of Green Leader Andrew Weaver.

On the delay in recalling the house, he mainly blames Premier Christy Clark for taking so long to face a confidence vote in the legislature.

“We had always intended to come back in early June, which is what the premier initially indicated,” he told me during an interview on Voice of B.C. on Shaw TV.

Instead, Clark didn’t face the music until the end of June and Horgan wasn’t able to work out a date for the handover until almost another three weeks had passed.

“Now with July 18 being when cabinet is sworn in we agreed with John Horgan,” Weaver continued, referring to the revised date for recalling the legislature. “Have it right after Labour Day. There’s not much point calling it in August. They need some time. They haven’t had a chance to look at the transition binders and so forth.”