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Relations between B.C. premiers and Canadian prime ministers have run hot and cold over the years.

NDP premier Glen Clark clashed with then-prime minister Jean Chretien over federal salmon-fishing management in the 1990s.

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Clark even tried to shut down a submarine torpedo-testing range on the B.C. coast, forcing the feds to expropriate it, leading to years of frosty relations between Victoria and Ottawa.

Things were warmer between Liberal premier Gordon Campbell and Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, who later appointed Campbell as Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Christy Clark got along well with Harper, too.

But there’s never been a red-hot bromance like the one between Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose bonds seem to be strengthening as a federal election approaches.

The Horgan-Trudeau mutual admiration was cranked to the max during the prime minister’s latest pre-campaign swing through the province.