Opinion: Eby was always a big spender and, upon becoming premier, promptly abandoned the fiscal restraint of John Horgan

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VICTORIA — A cabinet order four years ago marked the point of departure between the John Horgan and David Eby approaches to the management of B.C. budgets.

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Premier Horgan signed the Feb. 25, 2022, order removing Eby from Treasury Board, the budget-making committee of the cabinet.

Publicly, the premier’s office said change was made to lighten the workload for Eby, then serving as attorney general and housing minister in the NDP government.

Privately it was blamed on regular clashes at board meetings between Eby and the chair, Finance Minister Selina Robinson.

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As Horgan once put it, one of them had to go and he was not prepared to fire his minister of finance.

Robinson had been Horgan’s choice for finance minister after Carole James retired for health reasons at the 2020........

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