MLA since 2017 and former Conservative finance critic, running for the Conservative Party of BC in Kamloops Centre.
Peter Milobar has been an MLA since 2017 and won Kamloops Centre for the Conservatives in 2024. In 2026 he ran for the party leadership, left its caucus in August, led CentreBC from September 18 to 22, and rejoined the Conservatives on the day the election was called. The legislature lists him as Independent.
A researched record of Peter Milobar's 30 commitments, 10 dated actions and 9 public statements from 2026, with 11 news items. Most commitments come from his leadership campaign platform of early 2026 and from the legislature record.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Peter Milobar
Peter Milobar is the Conservative Party candidate in Kamloops Centre on Elections BC's list for the general election of October 24, 2026. He won the district in 2024 with 12,372 votes, 48.83% of the valid vote, according to the Elections BC statement of votes.
The legislature record lists his election years as 2017, 2020 and 2024. The Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal reported that he was a Kamloops city councillor from 2002 to 2008, was elected mayor in 2008 and re-elected in 2011 and 2014, and won Kamloops-North Thompson as a BC Liberal in 2017 and 2020. A Conservative caucus release of June 30, 2026 names him Critic for Finance.
He entered the race for Conservative leader on January 16, 2026. Radio NL reported that he finished fifth of five on the first ballot on May 30, with just over 10% support, and Kerry-Lynne Findlay won. On August 14 he left the Conservative caucus, saying his values did not align with the party's new direction under Findlay, Black Press Media reported.
On September 18, 2026 he became leader of CentreBC after Mike Bernier stepped aside, and seven other MLAs joined with him, according to Vista Radio and CBC News. On September 22, the day the election was called, he and six of those MLAs returned to the Conservatives. He told Castanet that Findlay's resignation, the removal of some party staff and promises of a more progressive policy approach brought him back. CentreBC said he did not discuss the move with its executive. The legislature still lists him as Independent, and Elections BC lists him as the Conservative Party candidate.
In the legislature in 2026 he gave the first opposition reply to the budget and asked questions on the sales tax on business services, the interest rate on property tax deferral for seniors, delayed long-term care projects and DRIPA, the provincial law on Indigenous rights. On May 6 he presented the yearly report of the Public Accounts Committee.
The party's candidate page says he served as Opposition House Leader, chaired the Thompson Regional Hospital District for five terms and has been a Thompson-Nicola Regional District director since 2005. Those are the party's own statements.
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.
30 commitments shown · Checked Sep 30
2026 · GovernanceCampaign pledge
Repeal DRIPA and replace it with a court-based consultation law
His leadership platform says he would repeal the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in full, remove language based on it from other laws, and bring in a consultation framework with firm timelines based on Supreme Court of Canada rulings. In question period on May 19, 2026 he asked the Premier to repeal DRIPA.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no length for the timelines and no cost.
What still needs checking
Does the Conservative platform for 2026 repeat the repeal, and what timelines would the new framework set?
His leadership platform says he would bring in a Provincial Property Rights Act that requires fair compensation and due process when a government action lowers the value or use of a property.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no cost, no number and no date.
What still needs checking
What would count as a loss of value, and who would pay the compensation?
Freeze the Step Code and protect applications already filed
Told Business in Vancouver that his first housing step would be to freeze the BC Energy Step Code at Step 3, restore protection for building applications already in progress, and seek a federal deal to lower servicing costs of $75,000 to $100,000 for each home.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Said in May 2026 as a candidate for party leader. The cost figure describes the problem; he gives no number of homes and no date.
His leadership platform says he would make municipalities the main authority on zoning again and reverse the provincial housing rules in Bill 44.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date and no number of homes.
What still needs checking
Which parts of Bill 44 would be repealed, and how would new home targets be set?
His leadership platform says he would repeal the province's short-term rental restrictions.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date.
What still needs checking
What effect on long-term rental supply does he expect?
Restore cancelled long-term care projects and let private builders add beds
In the legislature on February 18 and March 2, 2026 he spoke against six long-term care projects that the 2026 budget listed with no completion date. His leadership platform says he would restore them and let private builders add care beds at $600,000 each to clear a waitlist of 7,400 people.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. The cost per bed and the waitlist figure are his own. He gives no date.
Bring home doctors trained abroad and cut charting time
Told Business in Vancouver that he would accredit some international universities attended by students raised in British Columbia, so they can return without restarting training, and help doctors with charting software to free up the equivalent of up to 1,500 family doctors.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Said in May 2026 as a candidate for party leader. He gives no cost and no date.
What still needs checking
Which universities would qualify, and what would the software cost?
His leadership platform says he would set up a plan where nurses at regional hospitals such as Kamloops are on call to fill in when rural emergency rooms close, naming Merritt, Clearwater and 100 Mile House.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no number of nurses, no cost and no date.
What still needs checking
How many nurses would be on call, and who pays for them?
Told Business in Vancouver he would expand involuntary care for people unable to care for themselves and build a voluntary treatment system backed by government when public beds are full.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Said in May 2026 as a candidate for party leader. He gives no number of beds, cost or date.
Reverse the interest change on property tax deferral
In question period on February 18, 2026 he opposed the budget change that raised the interest rate for seniors who defer their property tax from 2.9% to 6.9% and made it compound. His leadership platform says he would reverse the change.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. The platform gives no date and no cost to the budget.
What still needs checking
What would reversing the change cost the province each year?
His leadership platform says he would raise the price at which the higher sales tax on vehicles starts from $55,000 to $75,000.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no cost to the budget and no date.
In question period on March 9, 2026 he asked the government to cut the PST changes in the budget. His leadership platform says he would repeal the PST expansion to accounting, bookkeeping and security services. On May 28 he told the Premier these PST changes cost businesses $563 million a year.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. He gives no date.
His leadership platform says he would find spending savings of 4% across government, $4 billion a year, and use it to lower fees and cut taxes for small and medium businesses. He told Business in Vancouver that balancing the budget would take several years.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It does not name which programs would be cut, or give a date.
What still needs checking
Which spending would be reduced to reach $4 billion?
His leadership platform says he would reduce the budget's contingency fund from $4 billion to $1 to $2 billion.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date.
His leadership platform says he would repeal the speculation and vacancy tax.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date and no cost to the budget.
More prosecutors and judges, and police who lay charges
His leadership platform says he would hire more Crown prosecutors and judges to clear the case backlog and let police lay charges directly without a Crown referral.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no number of hires, no cost and no date.
His leadership platform says he would set up retail crime enforcement units modelled on a Winnipeg police program.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no number of units, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Where would the units work, and who would pay for them?
His leadership platform says he would press the federal government on bail reform and sentences for violent crime, drug trafficking and repeat offenders.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Bail and sentencing are federal law, so the Province can only ask. He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it.
His leadership platform says he would cut permitting times, which it says reach 4.5 years for a forest service road, and set firm deadlines for resource and infrastructure approvals.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It does not say what the deadlines would be.
End community benefit agreements on public construction
His leadership platform says he would repeal community benefit agreements and open all government construction contracts to full competitive bidding.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date.
His leadership platform says he would remove the PST from capital investments and light manufacturing equipment.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no cost to the budget and no date.
His leadership platform says he would bring back letter grades across K to 12 schools and give more teaching hours to math, literacy and science. It also says he would repeal SOGI 123, the school resources on sexual orientation and gender identity, and replace them with anti-bullying protections.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no number of hours, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which grades would get letter grades, and how many hours would move to core subjects?
His leadership platform says he would lower regulatory costs in forestry, including a review of stumpage fees, permitting and the old-growth logging deferrals.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date and does not say what the review would change.
His leadership platform says he would keep natural gas as an energy source in rural and unincorporated communities and oppose city bans on new gas hookups.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It names no provincial measure.
What still needs checking
Would the Province override local gas bans by law?
His leadership platform says he would order a public review of BC Ferries governance, fleet maintenance and route reliability.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date and no cost.
Told Castanet in February 2026 that the Red Bridge in Kamloops needs to be replaced right away, and that delivering provincial projects on time and on budget would free money to build it.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Said as a candidate for party leader. He gives no cost, no date and no provincial measure.
In question period on February 25, 2026 he asked the government to cancel the purchase of gift cards by ministries, and said the government had spent $6.3 million at Amazon with purchase cards since 2022.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
A demand in debate. It names no rule or date.
What still needs checking
What rule on gift cards would a Conservative government adopt?
His leadership platform says he would publish health targets for wait times, emergency room access, tests and access to a family doctor, so ministries answer for results.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no target figures or date.
What still needs checking
What targets would be set, and how often would they be published?
His leadership platform says he would repeal Bill 36, the Health Professions and Occupations Act, and return self-regulation to the professional colleges.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
He wrote this in his 2026 leadership campaign platform, read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026. His Kamloops Centre campaign has not published a platform that repeats it. It gives no date.
The Conservative Party of BC platform page lists plan titles on housing, health care, public safety, seniors, education and other areas. The page does not name Milobar.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me did not find a statement by Milobar during the 2026 general election campaign that adopts it.
What still needs checking
Does Milobar speak for the party platform in Kamloops Centre?
Voted no on third reading of the K'ómoks Treaty Act (Bill 20)
The recorded vote index lists Milobar voting yes on an amendment at second reading, then no at second reading on May 20 and at third reading on May 28, 2026.
Scope, limits and sources
He spoke in the second reading debate on May 20 and said neighbouring nations told the government they were not being consulted.
Voted no on third reading of the freedom of information bill (Bill 9)
The recorded vote index lists Milobar voting no at second and third reading of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2026, and yes on an amendment to delay it.
Scope, limits and sources
He spoke for the amendment to delay the bill for six months on May 6.
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Press conference
Announced his run for Conservative leader
In Victoria he said he would bring accountability to government, tackle street disorder, fix health care and repeal DRIPA, according to Black Press Media.
As the first opposition speaker he criticised the $13.3 billion deficit and cuts to forestry and other ministries, and continued the next day on delayed long-term care projects.
Said the budget holds 11 new or higher taxes worth $2.3 billion a year, and answered the Premier on his time as chair of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.
Stood with interim leader Lorne Doerkson in Vancouver and called the Conservatives a "progressive-ideas and conservative-values party", The Canadian Press reported.
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.
Campaign dispute
CentreBC says he left without telling its executive
CentreBC said in a release that Milobar did not discuss his return to the Conservatives with its executive council, and its president, Mike Wignall, said he and others did not keep their commitments to the party.
Candidate or party response
Milobar told Castanet he felt bad about how his departure played out, that talks with the Conservatives were confidential until that morning, and that news of the move came out before he could tell CentreBC.
The Premier's comments on his time as regional district chair
In the budget debate, Premier David Eby read from Kamloops This Week reporting on spending under a former Thompson-Nicola Regional District chief administrative officer, and said Milobar had backed extra pay for that officer as hospital district chair in 2014.
Candidate or party response
Milobar said in the same debate that his record is public, that no policies were broken, and that he was gone for most of the period the reporting covers.
Verified status and limits
A dispute in debate. voche.me did not open the Kamloops This Week reporting and found no official finding about Milobar.
A dated reading list from independent publishers. The headings below are voche.me summaries; follow each link for the original article, context and any corrections.
Sources checked September 30, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
His Kamloops Centre campaign has no website of its own: petermilobar.ca now forwards to the party candidate page, which holds a biography and no measures. His leadership platform was read from an Internet Archive copy of May 28, 2026, and voche.me has not found a 2026 general election statement that repeats it. His X and Facebook pages show a sign-in page to a direct read, so no post is used. No all-candidates meeting for Kamloops Centre was announced on 2026-09-30, according to iNFOnews. The Finance, Premier's Office and Bill 2 and Bill 9 debates were read only where the index points to him, and the transcripts of recorded votes were not opened. The Kamloops This Week reporting on the Thompson-Nicola Regional District that the Premier quoted was not opened. His years as Kamloops councillor and mayor come from news reports and were not checked against City of Kamloops records. The party's statements on his past roles as Opposition House Leader, hospital district chair and regional district director were not checked against official records. His 2017 and 2020 results were not read from Elections BC. The date of his first role as Conservative finance critic comes from one news report. Campaign finances and endorsements were not reviewed. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-09-30: the Elections BC candidate list and 2024 statement of votes, the legislature's 2026 speech and vote indexes, 12 transcripts where he spoke, his party candidate page and the party platform page, five Conservative caucus releases, an archived copy of his 2026 leadership campaign policy page, a CentreBC release, and 17 news reports from January to September 2026.
Most commitments on this page come from his leadership campaign of January to May 2026 and from what he said in the legislature. His Kamloops Centre campaign has published no platform of its own that voche.me could find. Sections with no entry record that voche.me found nothing on this date.
Named in November 2024, according to the Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal; kept the role in the June 30, 2026 shadow cabinet; left it when he left caucus on August 14, 2026.
Elected as a BC Liberal in 2017 and re-elected in 2020, according to the Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal. The legislature record lists election years 2017 and 2020.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for Peter Milobar?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Peter Milobar's own campaign.
What party is Peter Milobar running with?
Peter Milobar is running for MLA with Conservative Party of BC.
Does Peter Milobar currently hold public office?
Yes. Peter Milobar currently serves as MLA for Kamloops Centre.
How many sources does this Peter Milobar profile cite?
This profile lists 5 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Peter Milobar's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Peter Milobar 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 Peter Milobar is running in?
The 2026 British Columbia election, including the MLA race, is decided on October 24, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
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