An unfiltered heart-on-his-sleeve man, you could tell what he was thinking nearly every time he walked into a room — mostly common-sense ideas about making B.C. better, and doing the right thing
You could feel the sorrowful news coursing through Greater Victoria on Tuesday afternoon, when the official word moved that John Horgan had died a few hours earlier.
But his move up the ladder was unlikely. When Christy Clark beat Adrian Dix in the 2013 election, his party was gutted. He picked up the nickname “Angry John.” Staffers would accompany him to media scrums bracing themselves for blow-ups. That final rung on the ladder, from opposition leader to premier, was extraordinary, since it developed after a dead-heat election after which Clark’s government collapsed.
He once told the legislature: “No one is more surprised than he and I that we get on as well as we do.” He decided after COVID-19 broke to back away from the cameras mostly and let the experts handle it. Politicians elsewhere spent weeks on end delivering medical updates that were just talking points put in front of them.
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