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When John Horgan became premier, he said it was time for the NDP to stop fighting special-interest battles and start governing for all the people.

“We have to set our activism aside and start being better administrators,” Horgan told Global TV’s Keith Baldrey.

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He was referring largely to the Site C dam, fiercely opposed by environmental activists within his own party. Horgan overruled them and announced he would complete construction of the dam anyway.

But this week has seen some startling insights into the activism still present inside the Horgan government when it comes to fighting projects and industries opposed by the environmental movement.

Postmedia reporter Rob Shaw obtained documents tracing the internal government fight over open-net fish farms that some groups believe harm wild fish.

On Oct. 13, Agriculture Minister Lana Popham sent a threatening letter to a Vancouver Island fish-farming operation targeted by environmentalists and First Nations.