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VICTORIA — B.C.’s major political parties are attempting to capitalize on this week’s high-profile spending scandal at the legislature to drum up votes in the final days before a key byelection in Nanaimo.

NDP Premier John Horgan and Opposition Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson traded shots Thursday about who was most responsible for the financial mess at the capital building, as their parties duke it out in advance of a Jan. 30 byelection that, if the Liberals win, could plunge the province into an early election.

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Also in the mix was B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver, who stands to gain the most from the scandal because he and his MLAs are so new to the legislature they are untainted by what Speaker Darryl Plecas has called “the culture of entitlement” that has prevailed in the building for years.

“This certainly will have an effect on the byelection,” Weaver said Thursday. “I really don’t know how it’s going to go.”