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VICTORIA — B.C.’s provincial party leaders hope Tuesday’s budget will reset their political fortunes, after they each in their own way suffered a miserable first week of the spring legislative session.

For NDP Premier John Horgan, it was the series of protests that targeted the legislature and government offices, overshadowed his throne speech and grew into a wider national backlash against his administration’s handling of First Nations reconciliation issues, as activists blockaded highways, ports and rail lines across the country.

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For the B.C. Greens, it was the surprising sting of protesters who turned on the party’s two MLAs, even though they’d tried to ally and sympathize with the demonstrations.

And for B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson it was a week in which he faced a long, and at times baffling, fight with his worst enemy: His own big mouth.

Horgan took it the worst.

Demonstrators who opposed his government’s approval of the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline in the northeast teamed up with climate change activists, social justice warriors and what appeared to be a large contingent of university students to physically block the doors at the legislature Tuesday, injuring several staff and preventing more than half a dozen MLAs from being able to take their seats in the house.