Two former Conservative MLA’s, who are now sitting as independents, have announced they are launching their own party, called OneBC.
Dallas Brodie, the M-L-A for Vancouver-Quilchena, says she is the interim leader of the party, along with house leader Tara Armstrong, who represents Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream.
In a post on Instagram, Brodie says she built the new party to combat what she calls the ``globalist assault on our history, culture and families’’ and promises a 10-year vision for a ``prosperous tax-free B-C.”
Brodie says she is hopeful more conservative MLA’s will join them. Brodie was kicked out of the BC Conservative Party in March over her comments on residential schools.
Independent British Columbia MLA Jordan Kealy says he isn’t ruling out joining the new political party, but he also questions their electoral prospects.
Kealy and Armstrong quit the B.C. Conservatives in March after Leader John Rustad kicked Brodie out of caucus over her comments about residential schools.
Kealy says Brodie and Armstrong will find it very difficult getting re-elected under their new party, because it’s appealing to a “spectrum of voters” that he says is becoming “disenfranchised with the system.”
He says he wishes them both good luck, but also adds that “talk is cheap” and that he will “not be whipped by a party.”
With files from The Canadian Press