Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The B.C. government delivered a throne speech to open the legislature that was big on rhetoric, low on details and a sign, critics say, it’s out of ideas.

It’s a familiar broken record. Like an annual political Groundhog Day.

And it happened again Tuesday, as Premier David Eby’s government delivered his first throne since the October provincial election.

I’ll spare you the trouble of reading it: There’s nothing there. No new ideas. No new promises. No new programs or services to address the doctor shortage, ER closures, prolific offenders, street crimes, housing or cost-of-living concerns.

Instead, it was an 18-page creative writing exercise in political bombast, using the Second World War as some sort of tortured metaphor for the resilience British Columbians will need to fight off U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

If you were trying to figure out what the government was actually doing this spring, you came away actively dumber from the experience.

This is not what speeches from the throne are supposed to be.

In B.C., we’ve allowed ourselves over more than........

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