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VICTORIA — A year after the New Democrats vowed to change the electoral system and six months after they launched the enabling legislation to do so, the B.C. Liberals this week sought key details about the fall referendum.

They got no answers, only pushback from Attorney General David Eby, the NDP’s purported “neutral” arbiter on what is looking less and less like a fair and open process.

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“To the attorney general,” challenged B.C. Liberal MLA Michael Lee Thursday, “when will he inform British Columbians of the referendum question they will be asked in just a few months’ time?”

Patience, returned Eby. The government was sorting through a “huge amount of public feedback” from “the largest public engagement in B.C.’s history.” The contents will be translated into a public report with recommendations on the “question or questions” and other details. When and where, he didn’t say.

“He has yet to announce the campaign rules. He has yet to even provide the exact date of the referendum,” returned Lee. “Can the attorney general explain why he hasn’t told voters something as basic as what the question will be, when we’re mere months away from this referendum?”