Conservative Party of BC candidate for MLA in Richmond Centre, an accountant who served on the Cultus Lake Park Board from 2008.
Sacha Peter is the Conservative Party of BC candidate in Richmond Centre. He has not run for the legislature before. The BC Gazette records his election to the Cultus Lake Park Board in 2008 and 2011, and Elections BC filings name him as a financial agent for the party in 2022 and 2023. His campaign says he will push for tougher bail, long-term care, the Richmond Hospital rebuild and more Canada Line capacity.
A researched record of what Sacha Peter's campaign and party say he will do as MLA for Richmond Centre, with the public record of his earlier roles. He has not held provincial office, so there is no legislature voting record to review.
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01 / Introduction
About Sacha Peter
Elections BC lists Sacha Peter as the Conservative Party of BC candidate in Richmond Centre. He was not a candidate in the 2024 election. In 2024 the district was won by Hon Chan of the Conservative Party with 8,426 votes (51.99 percent), according to the Elections BC statement of votes. The legislature now lists Hon Chan as an Independent.
The BC Gazette lists a Sacha Peter among the Cultus Lake Park commissioners elected for the City of Chilliwack in 2008, and again in 2011. In a July 2011 letter to the Chilliwack Progress he signed as chairman of the Cultus Lake Park Board. A 2015 report he wrote, now posted on his campaign site, also says he chaired that board.
Elections BC financing reports name Sacha Peter as the financial agent of the Conservative Party of BC for the by-elections held on September 10, 2022, and an auditors' report names him as the party's financial agent for the June 2023 Langford-Juan de Fuca by-election. His campaign says he helped build the party's treasury and finance work from 2022 to 2024.
The party and his campaign say he is a Chartered Professional Accountant who works in corporate tax, that he holds a science degree in physics from the University of British Columbia, and that he has written about finance and politics at Divestor.com since 2009. voche.me has not checked these claims with the accounting regulator or the university.
His campaign website, read on 2026-09-30, says it is a draft preview for the campaign team, and labels its issues section as waiting for party review. Its positions are not listed here until the campaign publishes them; the commitment below comes from his party candidate page. 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.
1 commitments shown · Checked Sep 30
2026 · GovernanceCampaign pledge
Check the provincial budget for waste
The party's candidate page says that as MLA he will check the provincial budget closely, ask for accountability and point out waste.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
From the party's candidate page, which names him as the person who will act; his campaign site repeats it. The source names no spending to cut, no amount and no date.
His election to the Cultus Lake Park Board comes from the BC Gazette, and his role as party financial agent from Elections BC filings. The one dated budget result is a campaign claim and earns no score.
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
Read original statements and reporting, or open the publisher’s video. A summary of a speech is labelled separately from a full recording.
Statement
Letter on Canada geese at Cultus Lake
A letter to the Chilliwack Progress, signed as chairman of the Cultus Lake Park Board, on the cost of dealing with goose droppings at the lake.
Report on TransLink revenue and the proposed transit sales tax
A report he wrote for the No TransLink Tax campaign before the 2015 transit vote. It estimated that the proposed sales tax would collect $2.8 billion over 10 years. The report is dated January 2015; the day is not given.
Vancouver Sun opinion piece on a provincial bond in India
Written with Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. It questioned the province's decision to take on $97.5 million in debt and invest it in an Indian housing finance company.
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
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.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Research / 16 linked sources
Check the evidence
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 campaign website calls itself a draft preview for the campaign team and labels its issues section as waiting for party review, so the commitments taken from it may change. The party's candidate page labels him "Interim Conservative Party Leader"; no other source supports that label, so voche.me does not repeat it. His time as chair of the Cultus Lake Park Board rests on his own signed letter and his own report; the park's minutes from 2008 to 2014 were not found online. The park deficits and the 2010 surplus come from his campaign and were not checked against the park's audited statements. His accounting designation, his UBC degree, his work at Divestor.com, his roles on the School District 33 audit committee, the Chilliwack Transportation Committee, the Coast Capital Savings task force and the Richmond Family and Youth Justice Committee, and his advice to Alice Wong's office are stated by the campaign and were not checked with those bodies. Divestor.com returned HTTP 403 to direct reads. His X account shows a profile with 9 posts, and the posts cannot be read without signing in. No news report about his 2026 candidacy, no all-candidates meeting in the district, no endorsement and no campaign finance filing for 2026 were found on this date. The campaign website calls itself a draft preview for the campaign team and marks its issue positions as pending party review, so voche.me does not list those positions as his commitments until the campaign publishes them.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-09-30: the Elections BC candidate list, the 2024 statement of votes, the party's candidate, team and platform pages, his campaign website, his X profile, BC Gazette notices of the 2008 and 2011 Chilliwack local election results, Elections BC financing reports from 2022 and 2023, a 2011 letter in the Chilliwack Progress, a 2015 report and a 2016 Vancouver Sun opinion piece he wrote.
His campaign website calls itself a draft preview, so its commitments may change. No news report about his 2026 candidacy was found on this date. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
2008 to 2014
Commissioner, Cultus Lake Park Board
The BC Gazette lists him as elected in 2008 and 2011. He signed a 2011 letter as the board's chairman. His campaign says he served six years, three of them as chair.
Named as the party's financial agent in Elections BC filings for the by-elections of September 10, 2022 and the June 2023 Langford-Juan de Fuca by-election.
The party and his campaign say he has written about Canadian finance, economics and politics at Divestor.com since 2009 and hosts the Late Night Finance show.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which long-term care projects in Richmond would you push to build first, and by when?
No response has been submitted.
How much more Canada Line capacity do you want, and which part of the provincial budget would pay for it?
No response has been submitted.
Which provincial spending would you cut first as waste, and by how much?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Sacha Peter's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Sacha Peter?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Sacha Peter's own campaign.
What party is Sacha Peter running with?
Sacha Peter is running for MLA with Conservative Party of BC.
Does Sacha Peter currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Sacha Peter.
How many sources does this Sacha Peter profile cite?
This profile lists 7 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Sacha Peter's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Sacha Peter 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 Sacha Peter 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.
