MLA in Coquitlam-Maillardville · BC provincial 2026
Matt Liang
Conservative Party of BC candidate for MLA in Coquitlam-Maillardville. The party says he has worked as a deputy sheriff.
Matt Liang is the Conservative Party of BC candidate in Coquitlam-Maillardville. Elections BC lists his nomination as accepted. The party's candidate page, under the name Matthew Liang, says he has worked as a deputy sheriff, a child care counsellor and a health and safety facilitator. He faces Jennifer Blatherwick of the BC NDP, who won the district in 2024. voche.me found no policy statement in his own words on 2026-10-02.
A researched record of Matt Liang's 2026 candidacy in Coquitlam-Maillardville. voche.me found no policy statement in his own words on 2026-10-02, so the commitments on this page are the party's platform plan titles.
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01 / Introduction
About Matt Liang
Elections BC lists Matt Liang as the Conservative Party candidate in Coquitlam-Maillardville. The copy of the list read on 2026-10-02, stamped October 1, 2026 11:00:06 PM, shows two accepted nominations in the district: Jennifer Blatherwick of the BC NDP and Matt Liang. Nominations can be submitted until 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026, so more candidates may be added.
The party's candidate page is headed Matthew Liang and its text calls him Matt Liang, the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Coquitlam-Maillardville. The party's team page lists Matthew Liang as the candidate for the same district. The page's own data gives August 18, 2025 as the date it was first published.
The party page says he is a longtime public servant. It says he has worked as a deputy sheriff, as a child care counsellor with young people, and as a health and safety facilitator for the BC Public Service and the BC General Employees' Union. It also says he has volunteered with Special Olympics BC, the Share Society food bank, the RCMP and St. Paul's Advocacy Office. voche.me has not checked these roles with the employers, the union or the organizations. The page gives no dates for any of them.
In the 2024 election Jennifer Blatherwick won Coquitlam-Maillardville with 11,972 votes (51.80 percent), according to Elections BC's statement of votes. Hamed Najafi, the Conservative Party candidate that year, received 9,146 votes (39.57 percent). Nicola Spurling of the BC Green Party received 1,461 (6.32 percent) and Ken Holowanky, an independent, received 535 (2.31 percent). voche.me searched the whole statement for the surname Liang and found no match.
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.
8 commitments shown · Checked Oct 2
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge
Conservative Party of BC plan on housing
The party's platform page lists a plan titled Get BC Building, described as a plan to end the housing shortage and make life more affordable. The page says the platform is coming soon and does not name Liang.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Liang on housing. The page gives no measure, number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Does the party publish the plan, and does Liang speak on it?
The party's platform page lists a plan titled Putting Patients First, on access to care and wait times. The page says the platform is coming soon and does not name Liang.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Liang on health care. The page gives no measure, number, cost or date.
The party's platform page lists a plan titled Safe and Secure, described as a plan to restore public safety and confidence in the justice system. The page says the platform is coming soon and does not name Liang.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Liang on public safety. The page gives no measure, number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Does the party publish its public safety plan, and does Liang speak on it?
The party's platform page lists a plan titled A Free and Prosperous BC, which says the party will encourage investment and grow living standards. The page says the platform is coming soon and does not name Liang.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Liang on jobs or the economy. The page gives no measure, number, cost or date.
The party's platform page lists a plan titled Powering BC, for what it calls a clean and affordable energy future. The page says the platform is coming soon and does not name Liang.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Liang on climate or energy. The page gives no measure, number, cost or date.
Conservative Party of BC plan on economic reconciliation
The party's platform page lists a plan titled Economic Reconciliation, Healthy Communities, for partnerships, economic development and respect for Indigenous governance. The page says the platform is coming soon and does not name Liang.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Liang on reconciliation. The page gives no measure, number, cost or date.
voche.me found no public office held by this candidate in the sources read on 2026-10-02, so no voting record was reviewed. His past roles come from the party's candidate page.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
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News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
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Research / 7 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked October 2, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No campaign website was found on 2026-10-02: the party's candidate page links only to the party's own social media accounts, and mattliang.ca, mattliangmla.ca, voteliang.ca, mattliang4mla.ca and liangformla.ca did not answer direct requests. matthewliang.ca returned HTTP 404. voche.me found no social media account tied to this candidacy on 2026-10-02. Searches of Google News, the Tri-Cities Dispatch and the Western Standard for Matt Liang and Matthew Liang found no story about this candidate on 2026-10-02. The Tri-City News search page returned no readable results to a direct request. The WebSearch tool had no searches left in this session, and DuckDuckGo showed a check for automated requests, so Google News and the news sites' own search pages were used instead. The Internet Archive was offline, so earlier copies of the party page could not be checked. The party's candidate page labels him "Interim Conservative Party Leader". The party's team page lists him only as the Coquitlam-Maillardville candidate, so voche.me does not repeat that label. His work as a deputy sheriff, a child care counsellor and a health and safety facilitator, and his volunteer work, are stated by the party; voche.me has not checked them with the employers, the BC General Employees' Union or the organizations named. voche.me found no name in Chinese characters on the party's page. The party's platform page says the platform is coming soon and does not name him, and the party's news page does not name him. All-candidates meetings in Coquitlam-Maillardville, 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 2026-10-02: the Elections BC candidate list and key dates page, the 2024 statement of votes, and the party's candidate, team, platform and news pages. voche.me also searched news sites and news search pages for Matt Liang and Matthew Liang.
No campaign website, social media account or news story about him was found on 2026-10-02. The party page describes his career and volunteer work and names no policy. The commitments on this page are the party's platform plan titles. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Dates not given
Deputy Sheriff
Stated by the party. voche.me has not checked it with the employer.
The party says he has volunteered with Special Olympics BC, the Share Society food bank, the RCMP and St. Paul's Advocacy Office. voche.me has not checked this with the organizations.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
What would you do first as MLA for Coquitlam-Maillardville, and by when?
No response has been submitted.
What did your work as a deputy sheriff teach you about the courts and public safety, and what would you change?
No response has been submitted.
Which parts of the party's platform matter most for Coquitlam-Maillardville?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Matt Liang's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Matt Liang?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Matt Liang's own campaign.
What party is Matt Liang running with?
Matt Liang is running for MLA with Conservative Party of BC.
Does Matt Liang currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Matt Liang.
How many sources does this Matt Liang profile cite?
This profile lists 3 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Matt Liang's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Matt Liang 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 Matt Liang 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.
