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And we’re off. The attacks, lies and fact checking have already started even though the official provincial election campaign doesn’t start for another month.

Full-page ads paid for by the B.C. Liberal surrogate — Concerned Citizens for British Columbia — ran in both the Vancouver Sun and The Province last weekend.

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The open letter to B.C. NDP leader John Horgan was from Jim Shepard, identified as the group’s chair and former CEO of Canfor and Finning.

“I implore you to reverse your support for the NDP’s Leap Manifesto,” it said. “Tens of thousands of British Columbians and their families would feel great pain if you implement the NDP’s Leap Manifesto.”

But Horgan has never endorsed it or its calls for a ban on new resource-extraction projects and an expedited transition to renewable energy, saying that it doesn’t reflect the values of British Columbia. The manifesto was released by author Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis last year before the federal NDP convention.