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VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan wrapped up last year by indicating that his NDP government, having passed the halfway mark, was due for a makeover.

“A priority for the new year,” said Horgan in a mid-December interview with The Vancouver Sun, “is to build on the successes we’ve had and to reboot and retool on areas where we’re not meeting the same level of success.”

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Nor was the NDP cabinet lineup destined to be spared during the rebooting and retooling, according to Horgan.

“Some members are not going to be running again,” he told Keith Baldrey of Global TV at about the same time as he talked to the Sun. “So I am going to have those conversations over the Christmas break, and we will see. There will probably be some changes in the new year. And I think that’s appropriate.”

Those comments, coming as they did from the one in charge of the cabinet lineup, raised expectations that there would be a major shuffle early in the new year.