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Trump tariff threat jolts B.C. NDP government out of indecisiveness

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David Eby initially vowed he would hit the ground running, postelection.

Instead, what followed was a discouraging combination of evasion and indecision.

Mandate letters for the new cabinet were held up while the New Democrats engaged in protracted negotiations for the support of two Green MLAs.

Eby ’s new agenda was focused on trade diversification, resource development, and cost containment.

He’s probably hoping that the public sector unions will take the hint from all this talk of austerity and lower expectations in this year ’s contract talks. All in all, the result was a freshened agenda for a premier who badly needed one after squandering much of the political and fiscal momentum he inherited from John Horgan . Not likely will Eby acknowledge that these changes were prompted by Trump . But nor is it likely that he would have moved this far, this quickly, without the impetus provided by the devil-may-care occupant of the White House ..

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English

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