John Horgan: In His Own Words: 'It would turn into a terrible year, both for the province and for me personally'

In the months before his death, former premier John Horgan reflected on the highs and lows of political life in a series of interviews with journalist and author Rod Mickleburgh for the upcoming memoir John Horgan: In His Own Words (Harbour Publishing). He discusses the devastating wildfires and floods of 2021, ballooning costs of the Site C Dam project and his cancer diagnosis and treatment in these excerpts taken from Chapter 18: Annus Horribilis.

As we headed into 2021 with our majority government, we had no idea what lay ahead. It would turn into a terrible year, both for the province and for me personally. BC was hit by two unprecedented — there’s that word again — climate change disasters, months of devastating wildfires, and I was diagnosed with throat cancer. All of these event