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B.C. New Democrats unveiled an attack ad Tuesday that condemned Liberal leader Christy Clark for the suicide of one of the health researchers fired in 2012, and marked an even deeper dive into negative party advertising just one week before voting day.

The NDP ad, which was posted on the party’s YouTube channel, features Linda Kayfish, the sister of the late Roderick MacIsaac, chastising Clark for the wrongful dismissals of eight researchers.

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Kayfish points out, as did last month’s Ombudsperson’s report, that there was insufficient proof to justify the 2012 firings and that government treated them unfairly. “It was a pile of lies,” she says in the ad. MacIsaac took his own life three months later.

The Ombudsperson’s report called the firings unjust and a mistake within the provincial civil service, but said there was no evidence of political interference by Clark or her ministers.

“We will never know what really went on,” Kayfish said in the ad. “Premier Clark, she did not get to the bottom of this and she made a promise that she would.