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B.C.’s NDP government has removed four of the five members of the Transportation Investment Corporation board, the provincial agency that oversees B.C.’s Port Mann Bridge.

Chair Daniel Doyle, directors Anne Stewart and Clifford Neufeld and Colin Hansen, a former B.C. Liberal finance minister, all had their appointments rescinded in a cabinet order on Friday.

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Meanwhile, Irene Kerr, TI Corp’s president and CEO, has been appointed a board member through the end of 2018.

TI Corp is a Crown corporation that was established in 2008 to oversee the construction of the $3-billion, 10-lane Port Mann Bridge, then to oversee the tolling that was designed to pay for it.

But the B.C. NDP campaigned in the 2017 provincial election on removing the tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears Bridges.

“We’re going to proceed with the elimination of tolls because they’re unfair,” John Horgan said in May.

In July, Claire Trevena, B.C.’s newly-minted Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure told Postmedia that eliminating bridge tolls was an immediate priority.

“We’re going to be working on this pretty well immediately and seeing when we can bring it in because people have been paying a huge amount for that,” she said.

“We’re still working on how we’re going to be dealing with this but we have made a commitment to remove the tolls and that will be happening. We’re hoping to have the plan in place before the end of the summer.”

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