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It was a throne speech that became a clone speech as Christy Clark continued her amazing transformation into an NDP copycat.

Clark’s barely governing Liberals have now so precisely duplicated the NDP election platform that maybe she should just go ahead and change her first name to “Glen.” I always thought there was no relation between Christy Clark and former NDP premier Glen Clark, but now I’m starting to wonder if they were twins secretly separated at birth.

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The clone speech was a shameless rehash of the NDP platform from the May 9 election, with the Liberals now officially endorsing a long list of policies they previously savaged as dangerous, foolhardy and unaffordable.

Consider the Liberals’ new clone-speech commitment to eliminate tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges, an NDP promise that won John Horgan’s party a lot of votes in Surrey. Clark and the Liberals had called it “shortsighted” and “reckless” and said it would sink the budget into deficit, destroy the province’s credit rating and saddle future generations with crippling debt. Now they’re all for it, debt be damned, and there were all the obedient little Liberal MLAs applauding their toss-the-tolls plan like it was their own idea.