Opinion\u0022 Former premier\u0027s 35 minute \u0027farewell\u0027 speech this week held MLAs rapt
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Legal quibbles aside, it is hard to believe that a politician with Horgan’s gift of the gab would have been content with anything less than what he served up Thursday. He was a populist, telling reporters that “the greatest asset I’ve had” was returning every night to the modest home he and his wife, Ellie, had inhabited for 30 years in the provincial capital suburb of Langford.
He was reflective. Bruce Hutchison, the editor emeritus of The Vancouver Sun, helped put Horgan through university by employing him to chop wood at his “camp” at Shawnigan Lake. Hutch would also invite him in for a beer and incomparable hours of backgrounding on Canadian history and politics.Hutchison wrote a letter of recommendation in support of Horgan’s application to journalism school. Even that was not enough to get him admitted.
He stormed across the chamber, headed for Hansen. Before getting there, he thought better of it and reversed direction, sparing the house the kind of spectacle that transfixed viewers of last year’s Academy Awards. Horgan spent longer in Opposition than in government – 13 years versus five — and he was less often the happy warrior on the Opposition side.
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