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Adrian Dix, health minister, and Mike Farnworth, solicitor general: As solid as you’d expect from two MLAs with a combined 36 years in office. Farnworth’s cabinet experience from the 1990s NDP government makes him a stabilizing force for the current crop of rookies. He’s also been on top of marijuana legalization developments. Dix has run flat-out on his ambitious plans to build new hospitals, to reduce drug prices and to restore independent pharmaceutical testing. His encyclopedic knowledge of health issues is such that the Opposition Liberals don’t even bother challenging him.

Michelle Mungall, energy minister, and Doug Donaldson, forests minister: Horgan’s eyes and ears for B.C.’s Interior and North, both are key voices in an otherwise urban-heavy cabinet. Mungall had to reverse her opposition to the Site C damon Horgan’s orders, but is now dutifully trying to keep the megaproject on time and budget. Shefailed to freeze Hydro rates, but may find worthwhile reformsin her reviewof Hydro’s operations. Donaldson had a steep learning curve in charge of the challenging 2017 forest fire season, but he’s proved a capable administrator. He’s quietly changing B.C.’s forestry policies, without triggering any major alarms.

Carole James, finance minister: Her star has dulled slightly after a bruising first year. James had to backtrack on two of her biggest new tax measures by shrinking the scope of her speculation tax and exempting charities from her employer health tax. She said that was always part of the plan. But in the process she’s had to contradict herself several times — for example, initially claiming British Columbians with second homes wouldn’t pay the speculation tax, only to admit later that almost two-thirds of those hit would be British Columbians. Her expanded school tax on homes worth more than $3 million has led to comparisons to the kind of class warfare the NDP abandoned in the early 1990s. It’s still unclear if these are all her ideas, bad advice from left-leaning economists, or directions from the premier. On the positive side, James is skilfully locking up public sector unions to new contracts with only modest wage increases. Overall, she’s kept the budget balanced despite intense pressure to spend big on years of pent-up promises. James is still the most widely-respected member of Horgan’s cabinet. But there’s no doubt in year one she burned off a large amount of political capital.