Conservative Party of BC candidate for MLA in Vancouver-Quilchena, a former B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Carson Binda is the Conservative Party of BC candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena. Elections BC lists four other candidates there: Dallas Brodie (OneBC), who won the district in 2024 for the Conservative Party, Callista Ryan (BC NDP), Douglas Courtemanche (BC Green Party) and Petra Kuret (CentreBC). He holds no elected office on any record voche.me found. The party and two news reports describe him as the former B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, a group that campaigns on taxes and government spending, and releases from that group dated September 14 to 18, 2026 quote him in that role. voche.me found no platform or commitment stated by his campaign on October 3, 2026.
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A researched record of Carson Binda's 2026 candidacy. voche.me found no elected office in his record, so it found no voting record to review. Seven statements he made in his earlier job and as a candidate are listed under talks, and the dossier holds 4 news items. No commitment by his campaign was found.
No public appearance by the candidate was confirmed on 2026-10-03. The voting dates come from Elections BC.
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Elections BC lists Carson Binda as the Conservative Party candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena on its list stamped October 3, 2026 6:00:07 PM. The same list shows Dallas Brodie (OneBC), Douglas Courtemanche (BC Green Party), Petra Kuret (CentreBC) and Callista Ryan (BC NDP). In 2024 Brodie won the district for the Conservative Party with 11,464 votes (51.58%). Ryan of the BC NDP had 8,649 (38.91%), Michael Barkusky of the BC Green Party 1,729 and Caroline Ying-Mei Wang, an independent, 385. Carson Binda is not in the 2024 statement of votes.
His page on the Conservative Party of BC website says he was the B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, where he advocated for lower taxes, accountable government and responsible public spending, and that he appears in provincial and national media. It says that before joining the federation in 2022 he worked in senior roles on municipal, provincial and federal political campaigns while studying at the University of British Columbia, and that he served as a logistics officer in the Canadian army reserves. The page says he spent much of his childhood living abroad, including in Yemen, Kosovo, Nigeria and Malta. These are the party's statements. The page does not name the campaigns, and voche.me has not checked the army or campaign claims with a second source.
The federation's own news releases dated September 14, 15 and 18, 2026 quote Carson Binda as its B.C. Director. A Vancouver Sun opinion column he wrote on March 28, 2026 about freedom of information describes him in the same role. Victoria News reported on April 22, 2026 that he delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to the legislature against Bill 9, a bill on freedom of information requests, standing with five B.C. Conservative members of the legislature. The federation is an advocacy group, so voche.me lists those statements under talks as positions of the group voiced by him. The party page uses the past tense for his role, and voche.me found no source that gives the date he left the federation.
The Western Standard reported on September 30, 2026 that the Conservatives named him as their candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena on the evening of Tuesday, September 29, and quoted a post under his name: "This election is too important for British Columbians to sit out. I'm in." The same report says Conservative leader John Rustad removed Brodie from the caucus in March 2025 and that she co-founded OneBC. RED FM, summarizing a Canadian Press report, said on October 2 that Brodie told reporters she was open to a deal with the Conservatives while questioning why they are running a candidate against her.
The party's platform page said on October 3, 2026 that the platform is coming soon, lists plan titles and does not name him. voche.me has not contacted the campaign.
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His past roles come from the party's page and from federation releases that quote him. None is a public office, so none earns a score. The statements listed under talks were made for the federation, an advocacy group, and no campaign source repeats them.
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The Western Standard embeds a post under his name, dated September 30, 2026: "This election is too important for British Columbians to sit out. I'm in." The post states no policy.
As B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation he said the premier should cancel the expansion outright and find savings instead of more borrowing. The federation's polling in the release says 66% of British Columbians want it cancelled. This is a federation position and no campaign source repeats it.
He asked the government to explain $104,260 charged to government purchase cards at six Fairmont hotels between April 2024 and March 2026, and to release the invoices.
He said the government is overspending its budget by $1.2 billion and that it spends money faster than it makes it. The release gives the projected deficit as $13.76 billion.
He said any member who supports Bill 9 endorses an attack on transparency, and the release says requests for freedom of information fell from 8,300 in 2020-21 to 4,700 in 2024-25.
He delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures and told reporters on the steps of the legislature that the bill leaves it to the government to decide what delay is reasonable. Victoria News reports that five B.C. Conservative members stood with him.
He wrote that Bill 9 replaces a duty to answer requests "without delay" with a duty to answer "without reasonable delay", and asked the government to stop the bill and resume publishing records such as ministers' travel expenses.
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
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Reports the party's candidate card, describes him as the former B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and gives the district's 2024 result as 11,464 to 8,649.
Notes that Brodie made no mention of him when she announced OneBC candidates against two Conservative members, and repeats that the Conservatives nominated him on Tuesday night to run against her and an NDP candidate.
Summarizes a Canadian Press report: Brodie questions why the Conservatives are running a candidate against her and is prepared to make a deal. It gives his candidacy date as September 29.
Reports his delivery of the 10,000-signature petition as the federation's representative, the government's response and the privacy commissioner's support for the bill.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
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Vancouver Sun, written by Carson Binda · March 28, 2026
Canadian Taxpayers Federation · April 29, 2026
Canadian Taxpayers Federation · September 14, 2026
Canadian Taxpayers Federation · September 15, 2026
Canadian Taxpayers Federation · September 18, 2026
Western Standard · September 30, 2026
Western Standard · October 1, 2026
RED FM Canada · October 2, 2026
Victoria News (Black Press Media) · April 22, 2026
No campaign website, platform, news interview or statement of commitments in his own words was found on 2026-10-03, so the promises list is empty. His X account (@BindaCarson, named in a Western Standard embed) returned no readable posts, so his post of September 30, 2026 is known only from that report. The search tool was out of use and web search pages refused automated requests, so the name search used a news index and may have missed pages. The party page uses the past tense for his federation role and federation releases quote him as B.C. Director on September 14, 15 and 18, 2026. voche.me found no source that gives the date he left. His time with campaigns, his army reserve service, his studies and his childhood abroad come only from the party page, which names no campaign, unit, school or date, so they are attributed to the party. A 2021 student newspaper profile of a person with the same name was read. No page opened ties that person to this candidate, so nothing from it is used. The party's platform page says the platform is coming soon and does not name him. The statement of votes for 2024 does not list him. The Western Standard says Conservative leader John Rustad removed Dallas Brodie from the caucus in March 2025. voche.me did not open a second source for that. No all-candidates meeting for Vancouver-Quilchena was found. Campaign finances and endorsements were not reviewed.
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list stamped October 3, 2026 6:00:07 PM and the 2024 statement of votes, the party's candidate, team and platform pages, four news releases and one opinion column from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation period of his career, and three news reports from April and September to October 2026.
The name search was limited on 2026-10-03: the search tool was out of use and web search pages refused automated requests, so voche.me searched a news index by name instead and opened every result that could hold his statements. His X account returned only an empty page, so nothing from it is used. No campaign website, platform or statement of commitments in his own words was found. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
Listed by Elections BC as the Conservative Party candidate. The Western Standard reported that the party named him on the evening of Tuesday, September 29, 2026.
Elections BC candidate listThe party page says he joined the federation in 2022 and was its B.C. Director. Federation releases dated September 14, 15 and 18, 2026 quote him as B.C. Director. The party page and two news reports use the past tense, and no source gives the date he left.
Canadian Taxpayers Federation release, September 14, 2026The party says he worked in senior roles on municipal, provincial and federal campaigns while studying at the University of British Columbia. The page names no campaign, and voche.me has not checked this with a second source.
Party candidate pageThe party says he served as a logistics officer in the reserves. voche.me has not checked this with a second source.
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Carson Binda is running for MLA with Conservative Party of BC.
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