14 members of B.C. legislature spend final day in the house as election looms
VICTORIA — Gordie Hogg says he’ll never forget the night he almost burned down British Columbia’s legislature.
It happened during one of the building’s infamous all-night debates when he says he didn’t shut off the electric barbecue he kept in his office.
“We were called in to vote and I came back and there was smoke all over, everywhere, and the oil had leaked through the barbecue onto the carpet and I thought I would be able to solve it by pouring hot water on it,” the 20-year Liberal member said Thursday.
The member for Surrey-White Rock is one of 14 politicians who left the legislature for the final time Thursday as the session ended. He and the 13 others are not running in the May 9 provincial election.