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Shortly after the razor-close May 9 election reduced the B.C. Liberals to a minority government, Premier Christy Clark insisted she would not ask the lieutenant-governor for another election.

“No, no, no,” Clark said. “I won’t be making that request. Nobody wants another election.”

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It was a commitment Clark repeated in the days that followed: She would not send B.C. voters back to the polls for a do-over election.

But, as everyone knows now, Clark did exactly what she said she would not do: She asked Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon for another election after her Liberals were defeated in a historic non-confidence vote in the legislature on Thursday night.

Guichon rejected Clark’s request, and instead asked NDP Leader John Horgan to form a government. Clark will now resign, and Horgan will soon be sworn in as British Columbia’s 36th premier.

As disappointing as this is for Christy Clark, I think Guichon actually did her a favour.