Centre BC candidate for MLA in Chilliwack North. The party says he is a lawyer and has run before as an independent.
Dan Grice is the CentreBC candidate in Chilliwack North. Heather Maahs of the Conservative Party won the district in 2024 with 11,776 votes (54.58 percent). A Dan Grice ran there in 2024 as an independent and received 487 votes (2.26 percent), and the party says he ran before as an independent. The Law Society of British Columbia lists a Daniel A. Grice as a practising lawyer. His party page says he wants government to focus on the economy and to resist government overreach. voche.me found no measure from him with a number, a cost or a date on 2026-10-01.
A researched record of Dan Grice’s candidacy in Chilliwack North. Elections BC lists him with the affiliation CentreBC. His two 2026 positions come from the party’s page about him, and neither names a measure, a number, a cost or a date. His 2024 positions as an independent are listed as earlier material.
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01 / Introduction
About Dan Grice
Elections BC lists Dan Grice as the CentreBC candidate in Chilliwack North. On the list stamped October 1, 2026 08:00:07 PM, the other accepted nominations in the district are Heather Maahs of the Conservative Party and Adila Shaukat of the BC NDP. Nominations close at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026, so more candidates may be added.
Heather Maahs won the district in 2024 with 11,776 votes (54.58 percent), according to Elections BC’s statement of votes. Dan Coulter of the BC NDP, then the sitting member, received 8,125 votes (37.66 percent), and Tim Cooper of the BC Green Party received 1,187 (5.50 percent). The same statement lists a Dan Grice as an independent candidate in Chilliwack North, with 487 votes (2.26 percent). A search of the whole statement for the surname Grice found no other match.
The party’s page about him says he ran before as an independent candidate. voche.me treats the 2024 candidate and this candidate as one person because the party page and the 2024 campaign site describe the same man: a real estate and estate lawyer in the Fraser Valley, who graduated from law school in 2013, lives in Chilliwack, worked on British Columbia’s votes on electoral reform, and co-wrote a paper for Elections Canada on voting. Fraser Valley Today reported his 2024 candidacy on 2024-09-18 and his CentreBC candidacy on 2026-10-01.
The Law Society of British Columbia, which licenses lawyers in the province, lists Daniel A. Grice as practising, with a call date of July 7, 2014, at the firm Kane Shannon Weiler. The firm’s own page about him says he received his law degree from the University of Manitoba in 2013 and has worked in Abbotsford since 2014. The 2024 campaign site links to that firm page.
The party page says he has 12 years of legal experience, has received awards in tax law and belongs to a Fraser Valley tax group. It says he studied classical history and archaeology at the University of British Columbia and served in its student society. These are the party’s statements. voche.me has not checked them with the university or the groups named.
The party page says he joined CentreBC to work with Andrew Weaver and Elenore Sturko. It says he wants to speak for people who want government to focus on the economy and who are tired of populists on the left and the right. It says he supports the independence of professions and will resist government overreach while protecting the most vulnerable. The page gives no number, cost or date for any of these. voche.me has not contacted the campaign.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
5 commitments shown · Checked Oct 1
2026 · EconomyCampaign pledge
Government that focuses on the economy
The party’s page about him says he aims to speak for people in Chilliwack and across the province who want government to focus on the economy.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The page states an aim and names no measure. It gives no number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Does he name a measure for jobs or business, such as a tax rate, a permit rule or a program?
The party’s page about him says he supports the independence of professions and is ready to resist government overreach while protecting the most vulnerable.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The page states an approach and names no law, rule or reporting change. It gives no date.
What still needs checking
Which government action does he see as overreach, and what would he change?
Small homes on farm land through strata farms (2024 campaign)
As an independent candidate in 2024, he proposed a new law for strata farms, so that more small homes, rented or owned, could be built on land in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is from his 2024 campaign site and VoteMate profile, and Fraser Valley Today reported it. No 2026 page voche.me read repeats it, so it counts as earlier material. It gave no number of homes and no cost.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this proposal as a CentreBC candidate?
voche.me found no elected office held by him in the sources read on 2026-10-01, so voche.me found no voting record to review. The one dated action is his 2024 independent candidacy in this district.
Received 487 votes, 2.26 percent of the valid vote
Ran as an independent candidate in Chilliwack North
Elections BC’s statement of votes for the general election of October 19, 2024 lists a Dan Grice as an independent in Chilliwack North, with 487 votes. Fraser Valley Today reported on 2024-09-18 that the Chilliwack lawyer Dan Grice had filed to run as an independent there.
Scope, limits and sources
Running for office is no completed public work, so this action is tagged outside the scored issues. The party page says he ran before as an independent.
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No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
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.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
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Reporting
Fraser Valley Today · Mike Vanden Bosch
CentreBC names Chilliwack North candidate
Reports that CentreBC named him its Chilliwack North candidate, and repeats the party page’s description of his legal work, his time in Chilliwack and his reasons for joining the party.
Chilliwack lawyer to run as an independent MLA candidate
Reports his 2024 independent candidacy in Chilliwack North. It quotes his criticism of the BC NDP’s law on the Law Society and of the Conservatives’ education positions, and describes his strata farm proposal.
Sources checked October 1, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No 2026 campaign website, no social media account tied to this candidacy that could be read, and no interview or statement from him as a 2026 candidate were found on 2026-10-01. His site elect.dangrice.com holds only posts from September 2024, when he ran as an independent. His 2026 positions come from one page the party published on 2026-10-01, so his views on housing, health care, the cost of living, public safety, education, climate, Indigenous reconciliation and transportation as a CentreBC candidate are unknown. The party has published no 2026 election platform: its policy page says its Policy Committee is still writing its first policy areas. voche.me ties the 2024 independent candidate to this candidate through matching details on the party page and the 2024 campaign site. No single page says in words that the 2024 Chilliwack North candidate and the CentreBC candidate are the same person. The party’s statements about his awards in tax law, his tax group membership, his degree from the University of British Columbia, his student society role, his work on the electoral reform votes and his paper for Elections Canada have not been checked with the bodies that would know. An X account named Daniel Grice showed a sign-in page with no readable posts. A LinkedIn profile under his name could not be read without signing in, and a Facebook page under the same name is tied to this candidacy by no page voche.me read. Nothing from them is used. A 2024 candidate survey by Advocacy Canada could not be read by a direct request on 2026-10-01. His 2024 YouTube videos were not watched. All-candidates meetings in the district, campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date. Nominations close October 3, 2026, so other candidates may still be added. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-01: the Elections BC candidate list and key dates page, the 2024 statement of votes, the CentreBC candidate, Our Team, policy and news pages, the party’s page about him, the party’s 100 newest public Bluesky posts, two Fraser Valley Today reports, his 2024 campaign site, his 2024 VoteMate profile, a 2024 Fraser Valley Current candidate questionnaire, the Law Society of British Columbia lawyer directory, his law firm’s page, the BC Ballot candidate list, and web searches for his name with the district, the party, 2026 and MLA.
His 2026 positions come from one page the party published about him on 2026-10-01. His 2024 positions are listed as material from an earlier campaign, because no 2026 page repeats them. The party’s statements about his studies and awards have not been checked with the bodies that would know. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Called to the bar on July 7, 2014
Lawyer
The Law Society of British Columbia lists Daniel A. Grice as practising at Kane Shannon Weiler. The party says he is a real estate and estate planning lawyer with 12 years of legal experience.
Elections BC’s statement of votes lists a Dan Grice as an independent in Chilliwack North in 2024, with 487 votes (2.26 percent). The party page says he ran before as an independent.
The party says he was an organizer in the 2005 and 2009 votes on electoral reform and supported change in the 2018 vote. It says he co-wrote a paper for Elections Canada as a law student. voche.me has not checked these with the campaigns or with Elections Canada.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
You say government should focus on the economy. Which provincial measure would you support first, and what would it cost?
No response has been submitted.
Which government action do you see as overreach, and what law or rule would you change?
No response has been submitted.
In 2024 you proposed new rules for small homes on farm land in the Agricultural Land Reserve. Do you still support this as a CentreBC candidate?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for Dan Grice?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Dan Grice's own campaign.
What party is Dan Grice running with?
Dan Grice is running for MLA with Centre BC.
Does Dan Grice currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Dan Grice.
How many sources does this Dan Grice profile cite?
This profile lists 8 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Dan Grice's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Dan Grice in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Dan Grice is running in?
The 2026 British Columbia election, including the MLA race, is decided on October 24, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
No campaign updates yet
Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added.