[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":5738},["ShallowReactive",2],{"district-kootenay-rockies":3,"district-facts-kootenay-rockies":971,"district-profile-kootenay-rockies":1781,"parties-all":2067},[4,258,265,452,459],{"slug":5,"name":6,"office":7,"district":8,"number":9,"colour":10,"palette":11,"party":12,"portrait":15,"headline":23,"dossier":24,"sample":153,"acclamation":11},"aj-wolfe","AJ Wolfe","MLA","kootenay-rockies","","teal",null,{"name":13,"url":14},"OneBC","https:\u002F\u002F1bc.ca\u002F",{"src":16,"smallSrc":17,"width":18,"height":19,"alt":20,"credit":13,"sourceUrl":21,"position":22},"\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Faj-wolfe-640.webp","\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Faj-wolfe-320.webp",640,800,"AJ Wolfe, from the OneBC candidate page.","https:\u002F\u002F1bc.ca\u002Fcandidates\u002Fawolfe","50% 30%","OneBC candidate for MLA in Kootenay-Rockies, and the BC Conservatives' former candidate in Columbia River-Revelstoke in 2024.",{"checkedAt":25,"through":26,"introduction":27,"recordIntro":28,"researchGaps":29,"sources":30,"scheduleSummary":100,"scheduleSourceIds":101,"events":102,"promises":120,"programs":220,"talks":229,"accountability":236,"coverage":237},"2026-09-30","2026-10-24","A researched record of AJ Wolfe's OneBC candidacy in Kootenay-Rockies, his 2024 Conservative nomination in Columbia River-Revelstoke, and the commitments voche.me could find. voche.me found no elected office in his record, so it found no voting record to review.","His past roles come from reporting and from party releases. None of them is a public office, so none earns a score.","No campaign website was found. His X account, @TheRealAJWolfe, which the OneBC candidates page links to, showed one post with a new profile picture and no campaign statement on 2026-09-30. No Facebook, Instagram or other account of his was found. OneBC's page on him gives his place of birth and more than 25 years in construction; voche.me has not checked his work history with any employer or trade body. His role as president of the Conservative riding association in Kootenay-Rockies comes from a party release and from the Western Standard; voche.me has not seen a party record of it, or of when it ended. The reason the Conservative Party replaced him as its 2024 candidate in Columbia River-Revelstoke was not stated in the reporting voche.me read, and no statement from him about it was found. Why he moved to OneBC was not found. His positions on the OneBC platform, all-candidates meetings in the district, campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date. Pete Davis was not yet on the Elections BC list at 5:00 p.m. PT on 2026-09-30; nominations close October 3.",[31,37,41,45,49,53,56,60,64,71,76,82,88,94],{"id":32,"label":33,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":36,"checkedAt":25},"elections-bc-list","Provincial candidate list","Elections BC","Official record","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.elections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Ffin\u002FGE-2026-10-24-Candidate-Website-Report.PDF",{"id":38,"label":39,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":40,"checkedAt":25},"ebc-election","2026 provincial election: key dates","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002F2026-provincial-election\u002F",{"id":42,"label":43,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":44,"checkedAt":25},"sov-2024","Statement of Votes, 2024 provincial general election","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Frpt\u002Fstatement-of-votes-2024-provincial-election.pdf",{"id":46,"label":47,"publisher":13,"kind":48,"url":21,"checkedAt":25},"party-candidate","Candidate page: AJ Wolfe","Campaign",{"id":50,"label":51,"publisher":13,"kind":48,"url":52,"checkedAt":25},"party-candidates","Candidates page","https:\u002F\u002F1bc.ca\u002Fcandidates",{"id":54,"label":55,"publisher":13,"kind":48,"url":14,"checkedAt":25},"party-home","Home page",{"id":57,"label":58,"publisher":13,"kind":48,"url":59,"checkedAt":25},"party-priorities","Our Priorities page","https:\u002F\u002F1bc.ca\u002Fpriorities",{"id":61,"label":62,"publisher":6,"kind":48,"url":63,"checkedAt":25},"x-account","X account @TheRealAJWolfe","https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002FTheRealAJWolfe",{"id":65,"label":66,"publisher":67,"kind":68,"url":69,"publishedAt":70,"checkedAt":25},"ws-day5","Day 5 of the BC election: what you need to know","Western Standard · Alex Zoltan","Reporting","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westernstandard.news\u002Fbc\u002Fday-5-of-the-bc-election-what-you-need-to-know\u002F77356","2026-09-26",{"id":72,"label":73,"publisher":67,"kind":68,"url":74,"publishedAt":75,"checkedAt":25},"ws-day7","Day 7 of the 2026 BC Election: Campaign tours split the map","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westernstandard.news\u002Fbc\u002Fday-7-of-the-2026-bc-election-campaign-tours-split-the-map\u002F77363","2026-09-28",{"id":77,"label":78,"publisher":79,"kind":68,"url":80,"publishedAt":81,"checkedAt":25},"freepress-davis","Davis running for Kootenay-Rockies re-election with BC Conservatives","The Free Press","https:\u002F\u002Fthefreepress.ca\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F24\u002Fdavis-running-for-kootenay-rockies-re-election-with-bc-conservatives","2026-09-24",{"id":83,"label":84,"publisher":85,"kind":68,"url":86,"publishedAt":87,"checkedAt":25},"cbc-2024-candidates","Who's in and who's out as a candidate for the B.C. Conservatives","CBC News · Katie DeRosa","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fbc-conservatives-candidates-bc-united-1.7312028","2024-09-03",{"id":89,"label":90,"publisher":91,"kind":68,"url":92,"publishedAt":93,"checkedAt":25},"vernonmatters-2024","Full slate of candidates named for Columbia River-Revelstoke riding","Vernon Matters · Liam Verster","https:\u002F\u002Fvernonmatters.ca\u002F2024\u002F08\u002F27\u002Ffull-slate-of-candidates-named-for-columbia-river-revelstoke-riding\u002F","2024-08-27",{"id":95,"label":96,"publisher":97,"kind":48,"url":98,"publishedAt":99,"checkedAt":25},"eknow-davis-intro","BC Conservatives introduce Kootenay-Rockies candidate","Conservative Party of BC release, published by e-KNOW","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fregions\u002Feast-kootenay\u002Fbc-conservatives-introduce-kootenay-rockies-candidate\u002F","2024-05-31","No public appearance by the candidate was confirmed on 2026-09-30. The two voting dates come from Elections BC.",[38],[103,114],{"id":104,"date":105,"title":106,"kind":107,"time":108,"venue":109,"attendance":110,"attendanceNote":111,"detail":112,"sourceIds":113},"advance-voting","2026-10-16","Advance voting opens","Voting","October 16 to 21","Voting places listed by Elections BC","not-applicable","Voting days are for voters. They say nothing about where the candidate will be.","Elections BC lists advance voting from October 16 to October 21, 2026.",[38],{"id":115,"date":26,"title":116,"kind":107,"time":117,"venue":109,"attendance":110,"attendanceNote":111,"detail":118,"sourceIds":119},"final-voting-day","Final Voting Day","All day","Elections BC lists October 24, 2026 as Final Voting Day.",[38],[121,135,145,154,160,168,175,182,188,196,204,212],{"id":122,"title":123,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":127,"evidence":128,"nextCheck":129,"sourceIds":130,"issue":131,"own":132,"quote":133,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-responsible-spending","Responsible spending","2026","Economy","Campaign pledge","OneBC's page on him says he is committed to responsible spending, along with individual responsibility and respect for the rights of citizens.","This is a statement of values on his own candidate page, written by the party about him. It names no spending measure, amount or date.","Which provincial spending would he cut or protect?",[46],"taxes-budget",true,"AJ is committed to conservative values: individual responsibility, responsible spending, and respect for the rights of citizens.","first reader",{"id":136,"title":137,"cycle":124,"topic":138,"status":126,"pledge":139,"evidence":140,"nextCheck":141,"sourceIds":142,"issue":143,"own":132,"quote":144,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-accountable-leaders","Leaders who keep their commitments","Governance","OneBC's page on him says leaders should follow the rules they ask others to follow, keep their commitments and remain accountable to the people they serve.","This is a statement of values on his own candidate page, written by the party about him. It names no rule change, bill or date.","Which rule or law on accountability would he change?",[46],"governance","Leaders should follow the rules they ask others to follow, keep their commitments, and remain accountable to the people they serve.",{"id":146,"title":147,"cycle":124,"topic":138,"status":126,"pledge":148,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":150,"sourceIds":151,"issue":152,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-repeal-dripa","Repeal DRIPA (party platform)","OneBC's priorities page lists: repeal DRIPA, the provincial law that adopts the UN declaration on Indigenous rights, and declare the declaration to have no force in BC.","This is the party's platform. The page does not name AJ Wolfe, and voche.me found no statement in which he repeats it.","Does he support this, and what would happen to agreements already signed?",[57],"indigenous-reconciliation",false,{"id":155,"title":156,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":157,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":158,"sourceIds":159,"issue":131,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-tax-cut","Cut income taxes by 25 percent (party platform)","OneBC's priorities page lists: a 25 percent tax cut for every tax bracket, including corporate tax.","Does he support this, and how would the lost revenue be replaced?",[57],{"id":161,"title":162,"cycle":124,"topic":163,"status":126,"pledge":164,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":165,"sourceIds":166,"issue":167,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-pst","Cut the PST by 2 points (party platform)","Housing","OneBC's priorities page lists: 2 percentage points off the provincial sales tax.","Does he support this, and from what date?",[57],"cost-of-living",{"id":169,"title":170,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":171,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":172,"sourceIds":173,"issue":174,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-forestry","Raise the allowable cut (party platform)","OneBC's priorities page lists: increase the yearly allowable cut of timber, lower stumpage fees and speed up permit approvals for the forest industry.","Does he support this for forests in Kootenay-Rockies, and by how much?",[57],"economy-jobs",{"id":176,"title":177,"cycle":124,"topic":163,"status":126,"pledge":178,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":179,"sourceIds":180,"issue":181,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-step-code","End the Step Code (party platform)","OneBC's priorities page lists: eliminate the BC Step Code building energy rules.","Does he support this, and what would replace the rules?",[57],"housing",{"id":183,"title":184,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":185,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":186,"sourceIds":187,"issue":131,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-balanced-budget","Balanced budget in 4 years (party platform)","OneBC's priorities page lists: balanced budgets within 4 years, with part of later surpluses used to pay down debt.","Does he support this, and which spending would change?",[57],{"id":189,"title":190,"cycle":124,"topic":191,"status":126,"pledge":192,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":193,"sourceIds":194,"issue":195,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-private-health","Private health care beside public care (party platform)","Public services","OneBC's priorities page lists: private health care alongside fully funded public health care, and moving administration spending to frontline workers.","Does he support this, and what would it mean for hospitals in the district?",[57],"health-care",{"id":197,"title":198,"cycle":124,"topic":199,"status":126,"pledge":200,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":201,"sourceIds":202,"issue":203,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-testing","Standardized testing in schools (party platform)","Education","OneBC's priorities page lists: bring back standardized testing in reading, writing and mathematics, and remove SOGI 123 material from classrooms.","Does he support this, and from which school year?",[57],"education",{"id":205,"title":206,"cycle":124,"topic":207,"status":126,"pledge":208,"evidence":149,"nextCheck":209,"sourceIds":210,"issue":211,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-drug-policy","End drug consumption sites (party platform)","Public safety","OneBC's priorities page lists: end safer supply and drug consumption programs, roll back decriminalization, and provide involuntary treatment and housing for people with severe addiction.","Does he support this, and what treatment would be offered in the district?",[57],"public-safety",{"id":213,"title":214,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":215,"evidence":216,"nextCheck":217,"sourceIds":218,"issue":219,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"party-pipeline","Approve a pipeline to the north coast (party platform)","OneBC's priorities page lists: approve a pipeline to the Port of Prince Rupert or Kitimat to move Canadian energy to foreign markets.","This is the party's platform. The page does not name AJ Wolfe, and voche.me found no statement in which he repeats it. voche.me tagged it under climate and environment because the page sets no emission rule beside it.","Does he support this, and with what conditions on emissions?",[57],"climate-environment",[221],{"id":222,"title":223,"date":99,"status":224,"summary":225,"context":226,"sourceIds":227,"issue":228},"program-riding-association-2024","Riding president at the founding of the Kootenay-Rockies Conservative association","Announced by the party; official record not opened","A Conservative Party release published by e-KNOW says Conservatives in Kootenay-Rockies set up a provincial riding association and names him as the newly elected riding president.","The date is the day e-KNOW posted the release, which says the meeting was held over the weekend before. A party office is no public office, so this entry earns no score.",[95],"other",[230],{"id":231,"date":99,"title":232,"format":233,"summary":234,"sourceIds":235},"talk-riding-2024","Statement at the riding association founding","Statement","Quoted in a Conservative Party release as saying the era of the big-tent party is over and that BC United had moved to the centre-left. This is 2024 material about party politics, so it is no 2026 commitment.",[95],[],[238,243,248,253],{"id":239,"date":70,"title":240,"publisher":67,"format":68,"summary":241,"sourceIds":242},"news-ws-day5","OneBC names Wolfe in Kootenay-Rockies","Reports the OneBC announcement and his earlier roles with the BC Conservatives, and says he will run against Conservative MLA Pete Davis.",[65],{"id":244,"date":75,"title":245,"publisher":67,"format":68,"summary":246,"sourceIds":247},"news-ws-day7","OneBC slate listed","Lists him among OneBC's first six general election candidates.",[72],{"id":249,"date":87,"title":250,"publisher":85,"format":68,"summary":251,"sourceIds":252},"news-cbc-2024","Conservatives drop him in Columbia River-Revelstoke","Reports that the BC Conservatives dropped him as their candidate in favour of Scott McInnis.",[83],{"id":254,"date":93,"title":255,"publisher":91,"format":68,"summary":256,"sourceIds":257},"news-vernonmatters-2024","Named Conservative candidate in Columbia River-Revelstoke","Reports the Conservative Party announcement naming him its candidate, and notes that the party gave no quote from him.",[89],{"slug":259,"name":260,"office":7,"district":8,"number":9,"colour":261,"palette":11,"party":262,"portrait":11,"headline":264,"dossier":11,"sample":153,"acclamation":11},"keenan-dennehy","Keenan Dennehy","fern",{"name":263},"BC Green Party","BC Green Party candidate for MLA in Kootenay-Rockies.",{"slug":266,"name":267,"office":7,"district":8,"number":9,"colour":268,"palette":11,"party":269,"portrait":272,"headline":278,"dossier":279,"sample":153,"acclamation":11},"norma-blissett","Norma Blissett","sand",{"name":270,"url":271},"BC NDP","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002F",{"src":273,"smallSrc":274,"width":18,"height":19,"alt":275,"credit":276,"sourceUrl":277,"position":22},"\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fnorma-blissett-640.webp","\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fnorma-blissett-320.webp","Norma Blissett, from her City of Cranbrook councillor profile.","City of Cranbrook","https:\u002F\u002Fcranbrook.ca\u002Four-city\u002Fmayor-and-council\u002Fmeet-our-councillors\u002Fnorma-bli","BC NDP candidate for MLA in Kootenay-Rockies, and a Cranbrook city councillor since 2014.",{"checkedAt":25,"through":26,"introduction":280,"recordIntro":281,"researchGaps":282,"sources":283,"scheduleSummary":100,"scheduleSourceIds":347,"events":348,"promises":353,"programs":399,"talks":407,"accountability":423,"coverage":424},"A researched record of what Norma Blissett has said as the 2026 BC NDP candidate in Kootenay-Rockies, with her record on Cranbrook city council and her 2013 run for the legislature.","Her council record comes from the City of Cranbrook and local reporting. The one dated action is a city motion and earns no score on the provincial issues.","No campaign website was found: normablissett.bcndp.ca sends the reader back to the same address in a loop and shows no page. The BC NDP team page loads candidate names with a script, so a direct read shows no page for her, and the party release that The Free Press quotes was not found on the party's releases page. e-KNOW says she announced her run on social media, but voche.me did not identify her account, so no post is used beyond what e-KNOW quotes. The result of the 2016 NDP nomination race in Kootenay East was not found. Her 2018 council result was not read, because the CivicInfo BC results page returned HTTP 403. Cranbrook council minutes, Regional District of East Kootenay board minutes and Kootenay East Regional Hospital District records were not searched for her motions or votes. Her degrees and past jobs come from her City councillor profile and were not checked with the schools or employers. No all-candidates meeting for Kootenay-Rockies, campaign finances or endorsements were found on this date.",[284,285,288,290,294,297,302,307,312,317,323,328,333,339,343],{"id":32,"label":33,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":36,"checkedAt":25},{"id":286,"label":287,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":40,"checkedAt":25},"elections-bc-2026","2026 provincial election dates",{"id":42,"label":289,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":44,"checkedAt":25},"2024 statement of votes",{"id":291,"label":292,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":293,"checkedAt":25},"sov-2013","2013 statement of votes","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Frpt\u002F2013GE\u002F2013-GE-SOV.pdf",{"id":295,"label":296,"publisher":276,"kind":35,"url":277,"checkedAt":25},"cranbrook-profile","Councillor profile",{"id":298,"label":299,"publisher":276,"kind":35,"url":300,"publishedAt":301,"checkedAt":25},"cranbrook-knights-hall","Former Knight's Hall property now owned by the City","https:\u002F\u002Fcranbrook.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fformer-knights-hall-property-now-officially-owned-by-city-site-clean-up-planning-underway","2025-10-22",{"id":303,"label":304,"publisher":79,"kind":68,"url":305,"publishedAt":306,"checkedAt":25},"freepress-2026","Blissett running for BC NDP in Kootenay-Rockies","https:\u002F\u002Fthefreepress.ca\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F29\u002Fblissett-running-for-bc-ndp-in-kootenay-rockies\u002F","2026-09-29",{"id":308,"label":309,"publisher":310,"kind":68,"url":311,"publishedAt":306,"checkedAt":25},"eknow-2026","Norma Blissett to seek MLA seat with BC NDP","e-KNOW","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fregions\u002Feast-kootenay\u002Fnorma-blissett-to-seek-mla-seat-with-bc-ndp\u002F",{"id":313,"label":314,"publisher":310,"kind":68,"url":315,"publishedAt":316,"checkedAt":25},"eknow-committees","2026 committee and acting mayor appointments set","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fregions\u002Fcranbrook\u002F2026-committee-and-acting-mayor-appointments-set\u002F","2025-12-31",{"id":318,"label":319,"publisher":320,"kind":68,"url":321,"publishedAt":322,"checkedAt":25},"townsman-2022","Wayne Price elected as Mayor of Cranbrook","Cranbrook Daily Townsman","https:\u002F\u002Fcranbrooktownsman.com\u002F2022\u002F10\u002F16\u002Fwayne-price-elected-as-mayor-of-cranbrook\u002F","2022-10-16",{"id":324,"label":325,"publisher":310,"kind":68,"url":326,"publishedAt":327,"checkedAt":25},"eknow-2014","Seven new legislators for city","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fseven-new-legislators-city\u002F","2014-11-18",{"id":329,"label":330,"publisher":310,"kind":68,"url":331,"publishedAt":332,"checkedAt":25},"eknow-2013-nomination","Norma Blissett adds name to NDP nomination race","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fregions\u002Feast-kootenay\u002Fnorma-blissett-adds-name-ndp-nomination-race\u002F","2016-07-05",{"id":334,"label":335,"publisher":310,"kind":336,"url":337,"publishedAt":338,"checkedAt":25},"eknow-2013","Norma Blissett \u002F NDP, Kootenay East","Interview","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fnorma-blissett-ndp-kootenay-east\u002F","2013-05-13",{"id":340,"label":341,"publisher":270,"kind":48,"url":342,"checkedAt":25},"party-action-for-you","Results for You","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Faction-for-you",{"id":344,"label":345,"publisher":270,"kind":48,"url":346,"checkedAt":25},"bcndp-team","Our BC NDP team","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Fteam",[286],[349,351],{"id":104,"date":105,"title":106,"kind":107,"time":108,"venue":109,"attendance":110,"attendanceNote":111,"detail":112,"sourceIds":350},[286],{"id":115,"date":26,"title":116,"kind":107,"time":117,"venue":109,"attendance":110,"attendanceNote":111,"detail":118,"sourceIds":352},[286],[354,362,370,377,386,393],{"id":355,"title":356,"cycle":124,"topic":191,"status":126,"pledge":357,"evidence":358,"nextCheck":359,"sourceIds":360,"issue":195,"own":132,"quote":361,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-health-care","Keep investing in health care in the region","Said in a BC NDP release that people in Cranbrook and the Kootenays deserve quality health care close to home, and that she is proud to stand with the party to keep investing in health care.","The Free Press quotes this from a party release. It names no measure, number of doctors or beds, cost or date.","Which health services would she ask the Province to add in Kootenay-Rockies, and when?",[303],"I’m proud to stand with the BC NDP to keep investing in healthcare and make sure people in our region can get the care they need when they need it.",{"id":363,"title":364,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":365,"evidence":366,"nextCheck":367,"sourceIds":368,"issue":174,"own":132,"quote":369,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-workers-business","Support workers and businesses","Said on social media that her campaign will focus on supporting workers and businesses.","e-KNOW quotes her post. The same words appear in the party leader's statement in the Free Press report, so this is the party's line repeated by her. It names no measure, number, cost or date.","What would she do for jobs in forestry and mining in the district?",[308],"Our campaign will focus on supporting workers and businesses, building the homes and infrastructure our communities need and making sure everyone has the opportunity to build a good life here.",{"id":371,"title":372,"cycle":124,"topic":163,"status":126,"pledge":373,"evidence":374,"nextCheck":375,"sourceIds":376,"issue":181,"own":132,"quote":369,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-homes","Build the homes communities need","Said on social media that her campaign will focus on building the homes and public works that communities need.","e-KNOW quotes her post, in the same sentence as the jobs commitment. The words match the party leader's statement. It gives no number of homes, cost or date.","How many homes, and which kinds, does she want built in the district?",[308],{"id":378,"title":379,"cycle":380,"topic":381,"status":126,"pledge":382,"evidence":383,"nextCheck":384,"sourceIds":385,"issue":219,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-2013-elk-river","Protect the Elk River while mining continues (2013)","Earlier term","Climate","As the 2013 NDP candidate in Kootenay East, said she would work with Teck to protect the Elk River while mining continues in the Elk Valley.","This is from her 2013 campaign. voche.me has not found a 2026 statement that repeats it.","Does she hold this position in 2026?",[334],{"id":387,"title":388,"cycle":380,"topic":191,"status":126,"pledge":389,"evidence":390,"nextCheck":391,"sourceIds":392,"issue":195,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-2013-elk-valley-care","Better emergency and primary care in the Elk Valley (2013)","As the 2013 NDP candidate in Kootenay East, said she would work with the health authority and the regional hospital district to improve primary care, emergency and ambulance services in the Elk Valley and Cranbrook.","This is from her 2013 campaign. Her 2026 statement on health care does not repeat these details.","Does she carry this into 2026, with a measure and a date?",[334],{"id":394,"title":395,"cycle":380,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":396,"evidence":397,"nextCheck":384,"sourceIds":398,"issue":174,"own":153,"reviewedAt":25,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-2016-resource-jobs","Resource industry jobs (2016)","While seeking the NDP nomination for 2017, said she would work for jobs in forestry, mining and agriculture at the provincial level.","This is from 2016. voche.me has not found a 2026 statement that repeats it.",[329],[400],{"id":401,"title":402,"date":301,"status":403,"summary":404,"context":405,"sourceIds":406,"issue":228},"program-knights-hall-fees","Motion asking the regional district to lower dump fees for the Knight's Hall cleanup","Reported by the City of Cranbrook","The City says Councillor Blissett and Mayor Wayne Price made a motion to the Regional District of East Kootenay to lower dump fees for the cleanup of the former Knight's Hall property. The City says the regional district then cut the fee for mixed building waste from $200 to $100 per ton.","The date is the date of the City release; it does not give the date of the motion. This is a city and regional district action with no provincial lever, so it earns no score on the provincial issues.",[298],[408,413,418],{"id":409,"date":306,"title":410,"format":233,"summary":411,"sourceIds":412},"talk-health-release","Party release on her candidacy","In a BC NDP release quoted by The Free Press, she said people in the Kootenays deserve health care close to home and warned that Conservative spending cuts would put care at risk.",[303],{"id":414,"date":306,"title":415,"format":233,"summary":416,"sourceIds":417},"talk-social-post","Announces her run on social media","In a post quoted by e-KNOW, she said her work on Cranbrook council showed her that a good relationship with the provincial government makes a difference, and named jobs, homes and public works as her campaign focus.",[308],{"id":419,"date":338,"title":420,"format":336,"summary":421,"sourceIds":422},"talk-2013-qa","Candidate questions, 2013 election","As the NDP candidate in Kootenay East, she answered e-KNOW's written questions on mining, health care and training in the riding.",[334],[],[425,430,435,439,444,448],{"id":426,"date":306,"title":304,"publisher":427,"format":68,"summary":428,"sourceIds":429},"news-freepress-2026","The Free Press · Trevor Crawley","Reports the party's announcement of her candidacy, her council and teaching background, and her 2013 run.",[303],{"id":431,"date":306,"title":309,"publisher":432,"format":68,"summary":433,"sourceIds":434},"news-eknow-2026","e-KNOW · Ian Cobb","Reports her announcement and quotes her social media post.",[308],{"id":436,"date":316,"title":314,"publisher":310,"format":68,"summary":437,"sourceIds":438},"news-eknow-committees","Lists her as alternate on the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Treaty Advisory Committee and as acting mayor for March and October 2026.",[313],{"id":440,"date":322,"title":441,"publisher":320,"format":68,"summary":442,"sourceIds":443},"news-townsman-2022","Cranbrook election results, 2022","Reports her re-election to council with 3,147 votes.",[318],{"id":445,"date":332,"title":330,"publisher":310,"format":68,"summary":446,"sourceIds":447},"news-eknow-2016","Reports that she was seeking the NDP nomination in Kootenay East for 2017.",[329],{"id":449,"date":327,"title":325,"publisher":310,"format":68,"summary":450,"sourceIds":451},"news-eknow-2014","Reports her first election to Cranbrook council with 2,194 votes.",[324],{"slug":453,"name":454,"office":7,"district":8,"number":9,"colour":455,"palette":11,"party":456,"portrait":11,"headline":458,"dossier":11,"sample":153,"acclamation":11},"paul-heywood","Paul Heywood","rose",{"name":457},"Centre BC","Centre BC candidate for MLA in Kootenay-Rockies.",{"slug":460,"name":461,"office":7,"district":8,"number":9,"colour":462,"palette":11,"party":463,"portrait":466,"headline":471,"dossier":472,"sample":153,"acclamation":11},"pete-davis","Pete Davis","blue",{"name":464,"url":465},"Conservative Party of BC","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002F",{"src":467,"smallSrc":468,"width":18,"height":19,"alt":469,"credit":464,"sourceUrl":470,"position":22},"\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fpete-davis-640.webp","\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fpete-davis-320.webp","Pete Davis, from his Conservative Party of BC candidate page.","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002Fcandidate\u002Fpete-davis\u002F","Conservative MLA for Kootenay-Rockies since 2024 and his caucus's critic for mining, running again.",{"checkedAt":473,"through":26,"introduction":474,"recordIntro":475,"researchGaps":476,"sources":477,"scheduleSummary":637,"scheduleSourceIds":638,"events":639,"promises":650,"programs":809,"talks":881,"accountability":949,"coverage":950},"2026-10-01","A researched record of Pete Davis's 18 commitments, 12 recorded votes and 13 public statements, with 4 news items. Most come from what he said in the legislature in 2025 and 2026.","Recorded votes where the legislature's vote index or transcript names him. A vote shows how he voted; it does not show why.","His campaign website, petedavis.ca, holds his 2024 campaign pages, including the party's 2024 platform posts; voche.me found no 2026 campaign page on it on 2026-10-01. The X account @ElectPeteDavis, linked from the party and caucus pages, answered with a page saying the account was not found. His Instagram and Facebook pages could not be read without signing in, so no post is used. His September 2026 post about staying with the party is used only as quoted by e-KNOW and The Free Press. His work as a business professional and his roles in a federal Conservative riding association come from his party's page and his own words; voche.me has not checked them with an employer or with that association. His title as critic or Shadow Minister for Mining and Critical Minerals comes from caucus releases; the legislature's member record lists no role for him. The 2026 speech index lists him on three sitting days. Some passages in the legislature record about his private life are left out under voche.me's privacy rule. Votes come from the 2026 vote index; voche.me opened the transcripts for May 6 and May 28, 2026 only. His 2025 estimates questions on energy and mining, and his speeches on Bills 5, 14, 20 and 31 of 2025, were read only through the 2025 index. The party platform page lists plan titles and does not name him. No all-candidates meeting in Kootenay-Rockies was found on this date. Campaign finances and endorsements were not reviewed. The questionnaire has not been sent.",[478,480,482,484,489,494,498,502,507,512,516,521,526,531,536,541,546,551,555,560,565,570,575,577,581,585,589,594,599,604,609,614,619,621,626,631,636],{"id":32,"label":479,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":36,"checkedAt":473},"Provincial candidate list, 2026 general election",{"id":38,"label":481,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":40,"checkedAt":473},"2026 provincial general election: key dates",{"id":42,"label":483,"publisher":34,"kind":35,"url":44,"checkedAt":473},"Statement of votes, 2024 provincial general election",{"id":485,"label":486,"publisher":487,"kind":35,"url":488,"checkedAt":473},"leg-member","Member record for Pete Davis, from the data service behind leg.bc.ca","Legislative Assembly of British Columbia","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fmembers",{"id":490,"label":491,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":493,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-index-2026","Members index to debates, 2026, entry for Pete Davis","Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Hansard","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FIndex\u002F43rd2nd\u002F2026-members-indexmhds.htm",{"id":495,"label":496,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":497,"checkedAt":473},"votes-index-2026","Index of recorded votes by member, 2026, entry for Pete Davis","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.lims.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhdms\u002Ffile\u002FIndex\u002F43rd2nd\u002F2026-Votesd.htm",{"id":499,"label":500,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":501,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-index-2025","Members index to debates, 2025, entry for Pete Davis","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.lims.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhdms\u002Ffile\u002FIndex\u002F43rd1st\u002F2025-Members-Indexd.htm",{"id":503,"label":504,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":505,"publishedAt":506,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-174","Debates of May 6, 2026 (afternoon and night): Bill 9, freedom of information","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd2nd\u002F20260506pm-Hansard-n174.html","2026-05-06",{"id":508,"label":509,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":510,"publishedAt":511,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-187","Debates of May 28, 2026 (morning): question period","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd2nd\u002F20260528am-Hansard-n187.html","2026-05-28",{"id":513,"label":514,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":515,"publishedAt":511,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-188","Debates of May 28, 2026 (afternoon): third reading votes","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd2nd\u002F20260528pm-Hansard-n188.html",{"id":517,"label":518,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":519,"publishedAt":520,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-8","Debates of February 25, 2025 (morning): question period on cancer care","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20250225am-Hansard-n8.html","2025-02-25",{"id":522,"label":523,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":524,"publishedAt":525,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-11","Debates of February 27, 2025 (morning): question period on emergency rooms","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20250227am-Hansard-n11.html","2025-02-27",{"id":527,"label":528,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":529,"publishedAt":530,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-19","Debates of March 6, 2025 (afternoon): budget debate, his first speech","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20250306pm-Hansard-n19.html","2025-03-06",{"id":532,"label":533,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":534,"publishedAt":535,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-25","Debates of March 13, 2025 (morning): question period on the rural retention incentive","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20250313am-Hansard-n25.html","2025-03-13",{"id":537,"label":538,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":539,"publishedAt":540,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-54","Debates of May 5, 2025 (morning): Bill M211, zero-emission vehicles","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20250505am-Hansard-n54.html","2025-05-05",{"id":542,"label":543,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":544,"publishedAt":545,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-56","Debates of May 6, 2025 (morning): question period on health care in the East Kootenay","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20250506am-Hansard-n56.html","2025-05-06",{"id":547,"label":548,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":549,"publishedAt":550,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-79","Debates of October 8, 2025 (afternoon): question period on mineral claims","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20251008pm-Hansard-n79.html","2025-10-08",{"id":552,"label":553,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":554,"publishedAt":301,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-86","Debates of October 22, 2025 (afternoon): Bill 19, School Amendment Act","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20251022pm-Hansard-n86.html",{"id":556,"label":557,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":558,"publishedAt":559,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-95","Debates of October 30, 2025 (afternoon): Bill 25, housing and municipal affairs","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20251030pm-Hansard-n95.html","2025-10-30",{"id":561,"label":562,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":563,"publishedAt":564,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-96","Debates of November 17, 2025 (morning): private member's statement on mining","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20251117am-Hansard-n96.html","2025-11-17",{"id":566,"label":567,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":568,"publishedAt":569,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-104","Debates of November 24, 2025 (afternoon): question period on Elkford power outages","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20251124pm-Hansard-n104.html","2025-11-24",{"id":571,"label":572,"publisher":492,"kind":35,"url":573,"publishedAt":574,"checkedAt":473},"hansard-2025-114","Debates of December 3, 2025 (afternoon): question period on mineral claims","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhansard-content\u002FDebates\u002F43rd1st\u002F20251203pm-Hansard-n114.html","2025-12-03",{"id":46,"label":576,"publisher":464,"kind":48,"url":470,"checkedAt":473},"Pete Davis candidate page",{"id":578,"label":579,"publisher":464,"kind":48,"url":580,"checkedAt":473},"party-platform","Our Platform page","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002Four-platform\u002F",{"id":582,"label":583,"publisher":461,"kind":48,"url":584,"checkedAt":473},"own-site","Campaign website home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.petedavis.ca\u002F",{"id":586,"label":587,"publisher":461,"kind":48,"url":588,"checkedAt":473},"own-about","About Pete page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.petedavis.ca\u002Fabout-pete",{"id":590,"label":591,"publisher":461,"kind":48,"url":592,"publishedAt":593,"checkedAt":473},"own-mining-2024","Unlocking Potential: Revitalizing BC's Mining Industry (2024 platform post)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.petedavis.ca\u002Fpost\u002Funlocking-potential-revitalizing-bc-s-mining-industry","2024-09-24",{"id":595,"label":596,"publisher":597,"kind":48,"url":598,"checkedAt":473},"caucus-page","Pete Davis, MLA page","Conservative Caucus of British Columbia","https:\u002F\u002Fbcconservativecaucus.ca\u002Fmla\u002Fpete-davis\u002F",{"id":600,"label":601,"publisher":597,"kind":48,"url":602,"publishedAt":603,"checkedAt":473},"caucus-framework","B.C.'s New Mining Consultation Framework Falls Short","https:\u002F\u002Fbcconservativecaucus.ca\u002Fb-c-s-new-mining-consultation-framework-falls-short-on-clarity-confidentiality-and-respect-for-first-nations\u002F","2025-03-28",{"id":605,"label":606,"publisher":597,"kind":48,"url":607,"publishedAt":608,"checkedAt":473},"caucus-team-2025","Rustad announces Conservative opposition team","https:\u002F\u002Fbcconservativecaucus.ca\u002Frustad-announces-strong-conservative-opposition-team-to-take-on-ebys-destructive-agenda\u002F","2025-10-01",{"id":610,"label":611,"publisher":597,"kind":48,"url":612,"publishedAt":613,"checkedAt":473},"caucus-tenure-freeze","NDP Breaks Promise Again, Extends Mining Tenure Freeze","https:\u002F\u002Fbcconservativecaucus.ca\u002Fndp-breaks-promise-again-extends-mining-tenure-freeze\u002F","2026-06-04",{"id":615,"label":616,"publisher":597,"kind":48,"url":617,"publishedAt":618,"checkedAt":473},"caucus-hoekstra","Members of the Conservative shadow cabinet meet with U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra","https:\u002F\u002Fbcconservativecaucus.ca\u002Fmembers-of-bc-conservative-leader-findlays-shadow-cabinet-meet-with-us-ambassador-hoekstra\u002F","2026-07-13",{"id":620,"label":96,"publisher":97,"kind":48,"url":98,"publishedAt":99,"checkedAt":473},"eknow-intro-2024",{"id":622,"label":623,"publisher":310,"kind":68,"url":624,"publishedAt":625,"checkedAt":473},"eknow-elkford","MLA Davis pushing for an end to Elkford outages","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fregions\u002Felk-valley\u002Felkford\u002Fmla-davis-pushing-for-an-end-to-elkford-outages\u002F","2025-11-13",{"id":627,"label":628,"publisher":310,"kind":68,"url":629,"publishedAt":630,"checkedAt":473},"eknow-loyalty","MLA Davis explains loyalty to party and leader","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.e-know.ca\u002Fregions\u002Feast-kootenay\u002Fmla-davis-explains-loyalty-to-party-and-leader\u002F","2026-09-11",{"id":632,"label":633,"publisher":427,"kind":68,"url":634,"publishedAt":635,"checkedAt":473},"freepress-support","MLA Davis affirms support for B.C. Conservatives","https:\u002F\u002Fthefreepress.ca\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F15\u002Fmla-davis-affirms-support-for-b-c-conservatives\u002F","2026-09-15",{"id":77,"label":78,"publisher":427,"kind":68,"url":80,"publishedAt":81,"checkedAt":473},"No campaign event for Pete Davis was confirmed by an organizer on 2026-10-01. The dates below are voting days.",[38],[640,646],{"id":104,"date":105,"title":641,"kind":107,"time":642,"venue":643,"attendance":110,"attendanceNote":644,"detail":112,"sourceIds":645},"Advance voting begins","See Elections BC","Advance voting places in Kootenay-Rockies","A voting day for electors.",[38],{"id":647,"date":26,"title":116,"kind":107,"time":642,"venue":648,"attendance":110,"attendanceNote":644,"detail":118,"sourceIds":649},"election-day","Voting places in Kootenay-Rockies",[38],[651,662,670,678,689,697,708,716,727,735,743,754,762,770,779,787,795,802],{"id":652,"title":653,"cycle":124,"topic":138,"status":126,"pledge":654,"evidence":655,"nextCheck":656,"sourceIds":657,"issue":143,"own":132,"quote":658,"states":659,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-foi-delay","Delay the freedom of information bill by six months","In the debate on Bill 9 on May 6, 2026, Davis spoke for an amendment to delay second reading by six months. He said the time should be used to review the concerns raised and the recommendations of the 2022 special committee report.","He names the amendment and the six months. He gives no cost. The amendment was defeated, according to the transcript.","Does he propose changes to the act as passed?",[503],"And I believe six additional months would help achieve that.",{"mechanism":660},{"fragment":661,"sourceId":503},"I’m rising to speak in support of the amendment that the motion for the second reading of Bill 9",{"id":663,"title":664,"cycle":124,"topic":199,"status":126,"pledge":665,"evidence":666,"nextCheck":667,"sourceIds":668,"issue":203,"own":132,"quote":669,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-amy-woodland","Replace Amy Woodland Elementary School","In question period on May 28, 2026, Davis said the gym at Amy Woodland Elementary burned down in 2024 and that more than 250 students remain displaced. He asked the minister when the children can return.","He asks for a date and gives no cost or date of his own. The number of students describes the problem.","Does a budget or ministry release set a date for the school?",[508],"To the minister: when will these children finally be able to return to Amy Woodland Elementary?",{"id":671,"title":672,"cycle":124,"topic":191,"status":126,"pledge":673,"evidence":674,"nextCheck":675,"sourceIds":676,"issue":195,"own":132,"quote":677,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-radiation","Radiation therapy at East Kootenay Regional Hospital","In question period on February 25, 2025, Davis asked the government to include radiation therapy in the new cancer treatment building at East Kootenay Regional Hospital, so patients do not travel to Kelowna.","He gives no cost or date. The number of treatments he cites describes the need.","Does a later budget add radiation therapy to the building?",[517],"Will this government reconsider and ensure that radiation treatment is available in the Kootenays before we lose more lives?",{"id":679,"title":680,"cycle":124,"topic":191,"status":126,"pledge":681,"evidence":682,"nextCheck":683,"sourceIds":684,"issue":195,"own":132,"quote":685,"states":686,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-rural-retention","Extend the rural retention incentive to Cranbrook and Kimberley","In question period on March 13, 2025, Davis asked the Minister of Health to let health workers in Cranbrook and Kimberley receive the provincial rural retention incentive.","He names the program to change. He gives no cost or date.","Does the ministry change who can receive the incentive?",[532],"Why won’t this minister allow the provincial rural retention incentive to apply to health care professionals who work in Cranbrook and Kimberley, and will she reconsider, yes or no?",{"mechanism":687},{"fragment":688,"sourceId":532},"allow the provincial rural retention incentive to apply to health care professionals who work in Cranbrook and Kimberley",{"id":690,"title":691,"cycle":124,"topic":191,"status":126,"pledge":692,"evidence":693,"nextCheck":694,"sourceIds":695,"issue":195,"own":132,"quote":696,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-emergency-care","Emergency care in Elkford and Cranbrook","In question period on February 27, 2025, Davis asked why the Elkford emergency room had been closed for more than two years. On May 6, 2025, he said the Cranbrook hospital was running at 110 percent of capacity.","He states a problem and asks for action. He names no measure, cost or date.","Does the Elkford emergency room reopen?",[522,542],"Why did the Premier do nothing to prevent Elkford‘s ER from closing?",{"id":698,"title":699,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":700,"evidence":701,"nextCheck":702,"sourceIds":703,"issue":131,"own":132,"quote":704,"states":705,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-carbon-tax","End the carbon tax","In his first speech, on March 6, 2025, Davis asked the government to end the carbon tax. He said the April 1 increase would raise the price of gasoline and groceries.","He names the tax and says now. He gives no cost to the budget.","Is a carbon tax still charged in B.C. during the campaign?",[527],"and end this tax now. It needs to go.",{"mechanism":706},{"fragment":707,"sourceId":527},"end this tax now",{"id":709,"title":710,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":711,"evidence":712,"nextCheck":713,"sourceIds":714,"issue":131,"own":132,"quote":715,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-debt","Pay down the provincial debt","In the same speech, Davis said the Province should pay down its debt and raise money from natural resources to pay for health care, schools and infrastructure.","He gives no amount, spending cut or date.","Does the campaign give a debt or deficit target?",[527],"That means paying down our debt and generating real revenue so we can invest in what actually matters: health care, infrastructure, schools, investing in our communities and the people that are in them.",{"id":717,"title":718,"cycle":124,"topic":381,"status":126,"pledge":719,"evidence":720,"nextCheck":721,"sourceIds":722,"issue":219,"own":132,"quote":723,"states":724,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-zev-repeal","Repeal the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act","In the debate on Bill M211 on May 5, 2025, Davis spoke for repealing the law that sets targets for sales of zero-emission vehicles. He said rural drivers need to choose their own vehicles.","He names the bill. He gives no cost or date.","Is the act still in force during the campaign?",[537],"I support the amendment to repeal the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act.",{"mechanism":725},{"fragment":726,"sourceId":537},"I support the amendment to repeal the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act",{"id":728,"title":729,"cycle":124,"topic":163,"status":126,"pledge":730,"evidence":731,"nextCheck":732,"sourceIds":733,"issue":181,"own":132,"quote":734,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-bill-25","Leave zoning decisions with towns","In the debate on Bill 25 on October 30, 2025, Davis opposed rules that require towns of over 5,000 people to allow up to four homes on lots zoned for one house, and that remove parking requirements. He said rural towns need their own plans.","He opposes the bill and proposes no measure, number or date of his own.","Would he change the provincial zoning rules if elected?",[556],"It is a sweeping overreach of power for Victoria, one that strips away the independence of our local governments and imposes a one-size-fits-all approach on communities that could not be any more different than one another.",{"id":736,"title":737,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":738,"evidence":739,"nextCheck":740,"sourceIds":741,"issue":174,"own":132,"quote":742,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-mine-permits","Faster mine permits and support for exploration","In a statement on mining on November 17, 2025, Davis said a mine takes 15 years to approve in B.C. and three to five years elsewhere, and that the permit process should be consistent. He said exploration should be supported.","The years he gives describe the problem. He names no measure, cost or date.","Does he name a permit time he would set?",[561],"If we want a strong mining future, we must support exploration today.",{"id":744,"title":745,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":746,"evidence":747,"nextCheck":748,"sourceIds":749,"issue":174,"own":132,"quote":750,"states":751,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-tenure-orders","End cabinet orders that close land to mineral claims","A caucus release of June 4, 2026 quotes Davis asking the government to end the orders under the Environmental Land Use Act that stop new mineral claims in parts of northern B.C.","He names the orders. The numbers of claimholders and tenures describe the problem. He gives no cost or date.","Are the orders lifted or extended again?",[610],"the government should end orders that allow it, with the stroke of a pen, to close off large tracts of land by Cabinet order to allow mineral exploration to proceed.",{"mechanism":752},{"fragment":753,"sourceId":610},"the government should end orders that allow it",{"id":755,"title":756,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":757,"evidence":758,"nextCheck":759,"sourceIds":760,"issue":174,"own":132,"quote":761,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-claims-processing","Process mineral claims within the minister's own target","In question period on December 3, 2025, Davis said the ministry takes 127 days on average to process mineral claims, against its own target of 90 to 100 days, and asked the minister to explain.","The numbers are the ministry's target and its result. He sets no target of his own.","Does the ministry meet its processing target?",[571],"What is this minister’s explanation for the failure to meet his own targets, and how does he justify claims dropping by a half in 2025?",{"id":763,"title":764,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":765,"evidence":766,"nextCheck":767,"sourceIds":768,"issue":152,"own":132,"quote":769,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-consultation-framework","A clearer framework for consultation on mineral claims","A caucus release of March 28, 2025 quotes Davis saying the new framework for consulting First Nations on mineral claims has no firm timelines and does not protect applicants' names. On October 8, 2025, he asked the minister to release its review.","He names no rule, timeline or cost of his own.","Was the review released?",[600,547],"This should have brought certainty to both Indigenous communities and the mining sector,",{"id":771,"title":772,"cycle":124,"topic":773,"status":126,"pledge":774,"evidence":775,"nextCheck":776,"sourceIds":777,"issue":203,"own":132,"quote":778,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-school-childcare","Plan, train and pay for child care in schools","Childcare","In the debate on Bill 19 on October 22, 2025, Davis supported letting schools offer child care on days without classes. He asked how it would be paid for and staffed, and asked that private daycares not be pushed out.","He gives no cost, number of spaces or date.","How is the program paid for in the next budget?",[552],"Above all, let’s make sure that when we expand child care, we do it with proper planning, proper training, proper funding.",{"id":780,"title":781,"cycle":124,"topic":191,"status":126,"pledge":782,"evidence":783,"nextCheck":784,"sourceIds":785,"issue":228,"own":132,"quote":786,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-elkford-power","Reliable power for Elkford","In a letter of November 12, 2025, reported by e-KNOW, and in question period on November 24, 2025, Davis asked BC Hydro and the Minister of Energy to stop the repeated power outages in Elkford.","He gives no measure, cost or date. The 28 outages he cites describe the problem.","Does BC Hydro announce work on the Elkford lines?",[622,566],"Will the minister explain why this government has done nothing to fix these outages that are putting my constituents at risk?",{"id":788,"title":789,"cycle":124,"topic":138,"status":126,"pledge":790,"evidence":791,"nextCheck":792,"sourceIds":793,"issue":143,"own":132,"quote":794,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-election-timing","Opposes the early election","The Free Press quotes Davis on September 24, 2026 calling the election two years early a power grab and saying the money could have other uses.","This is a statement of view. It names no measure.","Does he support fixed election dates in law?",[77],"It’s pretty selfish to be calling an election two years before your mandate is up,",{"id":796,"title":797,"cycle":124,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":798,"evidence":799,"nextCheck":800,"sourceIds":801,"issue":174,"own":153,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-party-platform","Party platform: mining and other plans","The party's platform page lists plans with titles such as A Mining Superpower, Expanding Access to Care and Ending Long Wait Times, and a plan to end the housing shortage. It does not name Davis.","This is party text. The page lists titles and gives no measures, numbers or dates.","Does the party publish full 2026 platform documents?",[578],{"id":803,"title":804,"cycle":380,"topic":125,"status":126,"pledge":805,"evidence":806,"nextCheck":807,"sourceIds":808,"issue":174,"own":153,"reviewedAt":473,"reviewedBy":134},"promise-2024-mining-platform","2024 party mining plan on his campaign website","His campaign website still carries a September 2024 post of the party's mining plan, including one permit per project and a review of mining rules.","This is the party's 2024 platform text. voche.me found no 2026 statement from him that repeats it word for word.","Does the party's 2026 platform keep these measures?",[590],[810,818,824,829,836,842,848,854,860,866,870,877],{"id":811,"date":812,"title":813,"summary":814,"sourceIds":815,"status":816,"context":817,"issue":131},"vote-budget-motion","2026-02-26","Voted against the 2026 budget motion","The vote index records Davis voting Nay on the budget motion.",[495],"Recorded vote","The vote index records each member's name on a standing vote. The transcript of this vote was not opened.",{"id":819,"date":820,"title":821,"summary":822,"sourceIds":823,"status":816,"context":817,"issue":131},"vote-bill-2","2026-04-01","Voted against the Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2026 (Bill 2)","The vote index records Davis voting Nay at third reading.",[495],{"id":825,"date":511,"title":826,"summary":822,"sourceIds":827,"status":816,"context":828,"issue":131},"vote-supply-act","Voted against the Supply Act, 2026-2027 (Bill 22)",[495,513],"The vote index records each member's name on a standing vote. voche.me also found his name in the transcript's list for this division.",{"id":830,"date":831,"title":832,"summary":833,"sourceIds":834,"status":816,"context":835,"issue":143},"vote-foi-hoist","2026-05-07","Voted for the six-month delay of Bill 9","The vote index records Davis voting Yea on the amendment to delay second reading of the freedom of information bill by six months. The amendment was defeated.",[495,503],"The vote index records each member's name on a standing vote. voche.me also found his name in the transcript's list for this division. The division took place after midnight, in the sitting that began on May 6.",{"id":837,"date":511,"title":838,"summary":839,"sourceIds":840,"status":816,"context":841,"issue":143},"vote-foi-3r","Voted against the freedom of information bill (Bill 9) at third reading","The transcript lists Davis among the members voting Nay at third reading.",[513,495],"The vote index prints this entry under a heading that also names another member, so voche.me checked the transcript, which lists his name among the Nays.",{"id":843,"date":844,"title":845,"summary":846,"sourceIds":847,"status":816,"context":817,"issue":152},"vote-komoks","2026-05-20","Voted against the K'ómoks Treaty Act (Bill 20)","The vote index records Davis voting Nay at second reading and at third reading on May 28.",[495],{"id":849,"date":850,"title":851,"summary":852,"sourceIds":853,"status":816,"context":817,"issue":152},"vote-dripa-repeal","2026-04-22","Voted for first reading of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous 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Mining and Critical Minerals why claims take longer than the ministry's target.",[571],{"id":935,"date":506,"title":936,"format":896,"summary":937,"sourceIds":938},"talk-bill-9","Debate on delaying Bill 9, freedom of information","Davis spoke for delaying second reading of the bill by six months.",[503],{"id":940,"date":511,"title":941,"format":890,"summary":942,"sourceIds":943},"talk-qp-amy-woodland","Question period on Amy Woodland Elementary School","Davis asked when students displaced by the 2024 fire can return to the school. The minister offered him an update after question period.",[508],{"id":945,"date":613,"title":946,"format":233,"summary":947,"sourceIds":948},"talk-tenure-freeze","Caucus statement on the mineral tenure freeze","A caucus release quotes Davis criticizing the seven-month extension of the freeze on new mineral claims in northern B.C.",[610],[],[951,956,961,966],{"id":952,"date":625,"title":953,"publisher":310,"format":68,"summary":954,"sourceIds":955},"news-elkford","Davis presses for an end to Elkford power outages","Reports his letter of November 12, 2025 to BC Hydro and the Minister of Energy about 28 outages in Elkford that year.",[622],{"id":957,"date":630,"title":958,"publisher":310,"format":68,"summary":959,"sourceIds":960},"news-loyalty","Davis explains why he is staying with the Conservatives","Quotes his social media post saying he would stay with the party and its leader while nine members left the 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law and social, community and government services",2075,{"label":1553,"count":1554,"value":1555,"bc":1556},"Health occupations",1565,7.3,7.7,{"label":1558,"count":1559,"value":1560,"bc":1145},"Natural and applied sciences and related occupations",1235,5.8,{"label":1562,"count":1563,"value":1362,"bc":1441},"Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations",1195,{"label":1565,"count":1566,"value":1144,"bc":1144},"Occupations in manufacturing and utilities",730,{"label":1568,"count":1569,"value":1012,"bc":1320},"Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport",505,{"label":1571,"count":1572,"value":1247,"bc":1220},"Legislative and senior management occupations",150,{"place":1574,"mode":1591,"duration":1610},[1575,1579,1581,1586],{"label":1576,"value":1204,"bc":1577,"count":1578},"Worked at home",22.6,2275,{"label":1580,"value":1238,"bc":1097,"count":1260},"Worked outside Canada",{"label":1582,"value":1583,"bc":1584,"count":1585},"No fixed workplace address",16.3,15.3,3290,{"label":1587,"value":1588,"bc":1589,"count":1590},"Worked at a usual workplace",72.1,61.6,14520,[1592,1597,1601,1605,1608],{"label":1593,"value":1594,"bc":1595,"count":1596},"Car, truck or van",85.7,79.9,15265,{"label":1598,"value":1599,"bc":1398,"count":1600},"Public transit",3.2,565,{"label":1602,"value":1603,"bc":1435,"count":1604},"On foot",7.1,1270,{"label":1606,"value":1084,"bc":1342,"count":1607},"Bicycle",345,{"label":1609,"value":1342,"bc":1017,"count":1223},"Other method",[1611,1616,1621,1625,1629],{"label":1612,"value":1613,"bc":1614,"count":1615},"Less than 15 minutes",56.5,31.8,10055,{"label":1617,"value":1618,"bc":1619,"count":1620},"15 to 29 minutes",19.8,34,3525,{"label":1622,"value":1623,"bc":1293,"count":1624},"30 to 44 minutes",10.6,1880,{"label":1626,"value":1627,"bc":1555,"count":1628},"45 to 59 minutes",4.7,830,{"label":1630,"value":1631,"bc":1203,"count":1632},"60 minutes and 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The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says the riding includes communities along Highways 3 and 43, such as Cranbrook, Sparwood, Fernie, Hosmer, Elko and Elkford. Its western edge reaches the height of land of the Moyie Mountain Range. In the north it follows the boundaries of Electoral Areas A and C of the Regional District of East Kootenay. The Alberta border forms the eastern boundary and the Canada-U.S. border forms the southern one.","The commission counted 41,241 people in the district, which is 23.3% below the average for a British Columbia district, and gave its area as 12,127 square kilometres. In 2023 it moved the western outskirts of Cranbrook into Columbia River-Revelstoke, along Hidden Valley Road, so that the boundary follows municipal borders. Lake Koocanusa, a reservoir on the Kootenay River, runs north from the boundary with Montana to Wardner, according to the BC Geographical Names Office.","Elections BC's results file for 2024 lists voting places in Cranbrook, Fernie, Sparwood, Elkford, Hosmer, Elko, Baynes Lake, Grasmere, Moyie, Wardner, Sand Creek and Fort Steele. It also lists a voting place at the ʔaq̓amnik̓ Elementary School. The file shows the district had 59 voting areas, 58 of them from Kootenay East and 1 from Columbia River-Revelstoke.",[1789,1790,1791],"commission","bcgn-koocanusa","ebc-results",[1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806],"Cranbrook","Fort Steele","Moyie","Wardner","Sand Creek","Baynes Lake","Elko","Grasmere","Fernie","Hosmer","Sparwood","Elkford","ʔaq̓am","Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi'it",[1808,1811,1814,1817,1820,1823,1826,1829,1832,1835],{"question":1809,"answer":1810},"Where is Kootenay-Rockies?","Kootenay-Rockies is a provincial electoral district in the southeast corner of British Columbia. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says the Alberta border is its eastern boundary and the Canada-U.S. border is its southern boundary. It gives the district's area as 12,127 square kilometres, and it reaches west to the height of land of the Moyie Mountain Range.",{"question":1812,"answer":1813},"Which communities are in Kootenay-Rockies?","Kootenay-Rockies includes Cranbrook, Sparwood, Fernie, Hosmer, Elko and Elkford, according to the commission's 2023 final report. Elections BC's 2024 results file also lists voting places in Baynes Lake, Grasmere, Moyie, Wardner, Sand Creek and Fort Steele, and at the ʔaq̓amnik̓ Elementary School. The western outskirts of Cranbrook belong to Columbia River-Revelstoke.",{"question":1815,"answer":1816},"Who won Kootenay-Rockies in the 2024 provincial election?","Pete Davis of the Conservative Party won Kootenay-Rockies in 2024 with 8,217 votes, 42.71% of the valid vote. Tom Shypitka, an Independent, received 5,844 and Sam Atwal of the BC NDP received 4,184. Kerri Wall of the BC Green Party received 996. Turnout was 60.79% of 31,684 registered voters, according to Elections BC.",{"question":1818,"answer":1819},"Who held the seat before Kootenay-Rockies existed?","Tom Shypitka held the seat's predecessor, Kootenay East, from 2017 to 2024. He won it for the BC Liberal Party in 2017 and 2020, and the legislature lists him as BC United in the 42nd Parliament. Bill Bennett of the BC Liberal Party held Kootenay East from 2009 to 2017. Kootenay-Rockies replaced Kootenay East after the 2023 boundary report.",{"question":1821,"answer":1822},"How did the boundaries of Kootenay-Rockies change in 2023?","The Electoral Boundaries Commission renamed Kootenay East as Kootenay-Rockies in its final report of April 3, 2023. It also moved the western outskirts of Cranbrook into Columbia River-Revelstoke along Hidden Valley Road. Elections BC's conversion table shows that 58 of the 59 voting areas in Kootenay-Rockies came from Kootenay East and 1 came from Columbia River-Revelstoke.",{"question":1824,"answer":1825},"How many people live in Kootenay-Rockies?","The 2021 census counted 41,335 people in Kootenay-Rockies, with a median age of 42.8 and a median household income of $92,000. Of those people, 9.3% (3,740) reported an Indigenous identity. The census industry with the largest share of workers was mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, at 14.7%, followed by retail trade at 13.2%.",{"question":1827,"answer":1828},"Whose territory is Kootenay-Rockies on?","Kootenay-Rockies lies within the territory of the Ktunaxa Nation, which says Ktunaxa people have occupied the lands next to the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers for more than 10,000 years. Two of the Nation's member communities are in the district: ʔaq̓am, near the St. Mary's River, and Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi'it First Nation, which has its office in Grasmere.",{"question":1830,"answer":1831},"What happened in Fernie in 1908?","A fire burned most of Fernie, a city in Kootenay-Rockies, on 1 August 1908, in less than 90 minutes. The Fernie Museum says only the mine office was left standing. City council then required that every building in a ten-block area be built of fireproof material, and most of the downtown buildings date from 1908 to 1912.",{"question":1833,"answer":1834},"What is Lake Koocanusa?","Lake Koocanusa is a reservoir on the Kootenay River, formed behind Libby Dam in Montana, and its northern end lies in Kootenay-Rockies. The BC Geographical Names Office says it runs north from the boundary with Montana to Wardner. The name combines Kootenay, Canada and USA and was adopted on 17 June 1968 after a naming contest.",{"question":1836,"answer":1837},"Which mines shaped Kootenay-Rockies?","Coal mines in the Elk Valley shaped Fernie, Sparwood and Elkford in Kootenay-Rockies. Mining at Coal Creek near Fernie began in late 1897, and 128 miners died there in the explosion of 22 May 1902. At Moyie, the St. Eugene mine produced lead and silver from 1899 to 1929, according to the BC Geological Survey's MINFILE record.",[1839,1853,1862,1875,1884,1894,1904,1914],{"id":1840,"title":1841,"paragraphs":1842,"sourceIds":1846},"ktunaxa-homelands","Ktunaxa homelands",[1843,1844,1845],"The Ktunaxa Nation says Ktunaxa people have occupied the lands next to the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers and the Arrow Lakes for more than 10,000 years. The Ktunaxa Nation Council has its headquarters on Cranbrook Street in Cranbrook. Its website lists four member nations: ʔaq̓am, ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation, yaqan nuʔkiy and Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi'it. Two of them have communities in this district.","ʔaq̓am, also known as St. Mary's Indian Band, lies where the St. Mary's River meets the Kootenay River. The British Columbia government lists 396 members and says the band is at Stage 5 of the treaty process, negotiating to finalize a treaty through the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Treaty Council. Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi'it First Nation has its office in Grasmere. Its website says its members, the ʔakanuxunik', are the people from where the water comes out of the mountain, and that they have been stewards of their unceded lands since time immemorial. The government lists 285 members and the same Stage 5 treaty status.","The BC Geographical Names Office records that the area around Cranbrook was called Joseph's Prairie, after a Kootenay Indian chief, and that a Kootenay Indian village stood there. The Canadian Encyclopedia calls it a prehistoric population centre of the Upper Ktunaxa.",[1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852],"ktunaxa-map","bc-aqam","bc-tobacco-plains","tobacco-plains","bcgn-cranbrook","ce-cranbrook",{"id":1854,"title":1855,"paragraphs":1856,"sourceIds":1859},"wild-horse-creek-fort-steele","Wild Horse Creek gold and Fort Steele, 1864 to 1898",[1857,1858],"The Canadian Encyclopedia dates the Wild Horse Creek gold rush to 1864 and says the ferry over the Kootenay River was run by John Galbraith, so the crossing was called Galbraith's Ferry. Tensions between the Ktunaxa and the new settlers led to the first North-West Mounted Police post west of the Rockies in 1887. Samuel B. Steele commanded it until 1888. The BC Geographical Names Office calls the post Kootenay Post and says the place was renamed Fort Steele in 1888 in honour of Superintendent Steele, who is recorded as having eased the tensions.","Mining of gold, lead, zinc and silver grew from 1892. In 1898 the BC Southern Railway was built to Cranbrook, and commercial activity moved there from Fort Steele. Order in Council 550 of 6 March 1961 created Fort Steele Park. In 1988 the site became a Provincial Heritage Property. The Canadian Encyclopedia counts more than 60 original and recreated buildings on it today, and Fort Steele Heritage Town was a voting place in 2024.",[1860,1861,1791],"ce-fort-steele","bcgn-fort-steele",{"id":1863,"title":1864,"paragraphs":1865,"sourceIds":1869},"coal-railway-towns","Coal, the railway and the new towns, 1873 to 1905",[1866,1867,1868],"The Sparwood Virtual Museum says Michael Phillipps prospected the Elk River valley for gold in 1873 and found coal instead. George Mercer Dawson's geological survey of 1884, released in 1886, brought the coal to national attention. Dawson named Michel Creek in 1883 after Phillipps, according to the BC Geographical Names Office. Colonel James Baker and William Fernie formed a syndicate in 1887 to develop the coalfields. The City of Fernie says they spent ten years trying to raise the money for mines and a railway.","In 1897 the Canadian Pacific Railway received a government subsidy of $11,000 per mile for the Crowsnest line. Mining began late that year, when twenty miners from Cape Breton arrived at Coal Creek near Fernie, and the line was finished by the end of 1898. Fernie's post office opened on 1 August 1898. The town was incorporated on 28 July 1904, with Fred Stork as its first mayor.","Baker had settled in 1885 and named his estate Cranbrook Farm after his home town in Kent, England. A townsite was laid out in 1897, the post office reopened on 1 September 1898, and Cranbrook became a city on 1 November 1905. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes it as a railway centre with divisional operations. Elko's post office opened on 1 August 1899, and the record dates the Canadian Pacific station there to 1905.",[1870,1871,1872,1873,1851,1852,1874],"sparwood-museum","bcgn-michel-creek","city-fernie","bcgn-fernie","bcgn-elko",{"id":1876,"title":1877,"paragraphs":1878,"sourceIds":1881},"moyie-st-eugene-mine","Moyie and the St. Eugene mine, 1893 to 1929",[1879,1880],"Moyie lies on the east side of Moyie Lake, south of Cranbrook. Its post office opened on 1 January 1899. The name comes from the French word mouiller, which means to make wet. Trappers used it for the river because of the damp conditions that David Thompson described in 1808.","The BC Geological Survey's MINFILE record for the St. Eugene mine says James Cronin recorded the deposit in 1893. It lists production from 1899 to 1929 of 1.475 million tonnes, with 113 million kilograms of lead and 182.7 million grams of silver. The St. Eugene Consolidated Mining Company developed the mine, and the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company took it over in 1905. The record gives the average grade of the ore as 7.7 per cent lead and 124 grams of silver per tonne.",[1882,1883],"bcgn-moyie","minfile-st-eugene",{"id":1885,"title":1886,"paragraphs":1887,"sourceIds":1890},"st-eugene-mission-aqam","St. Eugene Mission and ʔaq̓am, 1897 to 2021",[1888,1889],"ʔaq̓am's own history page says the community stands where the St. Eugene Mission was. Parts of the mission church were prefabricated in Italy and brought to the site in 1897. The church opened for worship on Palm Sunday in 1898, and band members helped to build the interior. The community says extensive renovations and restorations have taken place since 2011.","The Canadian Encyclopedia says St. Eugene Mission, formerly a residential school, now operates as a resort. Global News reports that the site reopened as the St. Eugene Resort in 2000. On 30 June 2021 the Lower Kootenay Band announced the results of a ground search. Its news release said: \"In the ground search conducted by the community of ʔaq'am, the findings revealed 182 human remains in unmarked graves.\" ICT News reported that the search used ground penetrating radar and took place in 2020.",[1891,1852,1892,1893],"aqam-church","global-st-eugene","ict-182",{"id":1895,"title":1896,"paragraphs":1897,"sourceIds":1900},"coal-creek-fernie-fire","The Coal Creek explosion and the fires at Fernie, 1902 to 1912",[1898,1899],"The Fernie Museum records that 128 miners were killed in the explosion at the Coal Creek Mine on 22 May 1902, and that 28 of them were Italian. It remains Canada's third worst mining disaster. Trains carried the bodies to Fernie for burial, and the museum shows crosses in St. Margaret's Cemetery in Fernie.","Fire destroyed the downtown commercial district in April 1904, and Fernie was incorporated later that year. On 1 August 1908 a second fire burned the town in less than 90 minutes. The museum says only the mine office was left standing. City council then ordered that every building in a ten-block area be made of fireproof material. Many of the new buildings used locally produced yellow brick, and the museum says most of the downtown buildings date from 1908 to 1912.",[1901,1902,1903,1872],"fernie-stories","fernie-museum-history","fernie-museum-downtown",{"id":1905,"title":1906,"paragraphs":1907,"sourceIds":1910},"libby-dam-koocanusa","Libby Dam and Lake Koocanusa, 1961 to 2024",[1908,1909],"Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Columbia River Treaty on 17 January 1961. The treaty was ratified on 16 September 1964. It allowed the United States to build Libby Dam in Montana, and the reservoir behind it reaches north into this district. The Canadian and United States geographic names bodies adopted the name Lake Koocanusa on 17 June 1968. It combines Kootenay, Canada and USA, and won a naming contest entered by Alice Beers of Rexford, Montana. British Columbia had proposed Kitunaha.","The British Columbia government says the treaty dams and reservoirs displaced more than two thousand residents as well as First Nations, and flooded traditional First Nations sites. It states that consultation and mitigation at the time could be considered inadequate to non-existent by today's standards. Baynes Lake, on the east side of the reservoir, is named for Andrew Bain, who located land there in 1896. In 2024 the Ktunaxa Nation announced that Canada and the United States had reached an agreement-in-principle on modernizing the treaty. Ktunaxa Nation Chair Kathryn Teneese said the Nation has communities on both sides of the border.",[1911,1790,1912,1913],"bc-crt","bcgn-baynes-lake","ktunaxa-crt",{"id":1915,"title":1916,"paragraphs":1917,"sourceIds":1921},"steelmaking-coal-elk-valley","Steelmaking coal and the towns of the upper Elk Valley, 1960s to 2024",[1918,1919,1920],"The Sparwood Virtual Museum says the Crowsnest Pass Coal Company sent test shipments of coal to Japan in the early 1960s, and that contracts in 1968 started a new period of mining, with surface mines replacing underground ones. The Fernie Museum dates the start of open pit mining to 1968 and the closing of the last underground mine to 1986. Coal dust affected Natal and Michel. A 1965 plebiscite showed 95% of residents in favour of moving to Sparwood, and Kaiser Resources bought mining rights in 1968. Sparwood became a district municipality on 12 May 1966 and took in the Village of Natal that day.","Elkford was built by Fording Coal Ltd., a subsidiary of Cominco, at the meeting of Boivin Creek and the Elk River, to supply 45,000,000 long tons of coking coal to the Japanese steel industry. It was incorporated as a village on 16 July 1971 and became a district municipality on 9 October 1981.","On 26 March 2021 the Provincial Court of British Columbia fined Teck Coal $60 million on two counts about selenium and calcite released in 2012 from the Fording River and Greenhills mines, the Narwhal reported. On 11 July 2024 Teck completed the sale of its 77% interest in its steelmaking coal business to Glencore, and the operations became part of Elk Valley Resources.",[1870,1902,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926],"bcgn-sparwood","bcgn-natal","bcgn-elkford","narwhal-teck-fine","bnn-teck-sale",{},{"paragraphs":1929,"sourceIds":1934},[1930,1931,1932,1933],"Elections BC's results file holds one election under the name Kootenay-Rockies, the 2024 provincial general election. Pete Davis of the Conservative Party won with 8,217 votes (42.71%). Tom Shypitka, running as an Independent, received 5,844 (30.37%), Sam Atwal of the BC NDP 4,184 (21.75%) and Kerri Wall of the BC Green Party 996 (5.18%). Turnout was 60.79% of 31,684 registered voters. The legislature's records list Pete Davis as the member for the district in the 43rd Parliament, for the Conservative Party of BC.","The Electoral Boundaries Commission's final report of April 3, 2023 renamed Kootenay East as Kootenay-Rockies. It moved the western outskirts of Cranbrook into Columbia River-Revelstoke. Elections BC's conversion table matches the district's 59 voting areas to the 2017 to 2024 districts. It shows overlap with Kootenay East in 58 voting areas and with Columbia River-Revelstoke in 1.","Shypitka held Kootenay East from 2017 to 2024. He won it for the BC Liberal Party in 2017 with 9,666 votes (56.57%) and in 2020 with 9,897 (57.90%), and the legislature lists him as BC United in the 42nd Parliament. Before him Bill Bennett of the BC Liberal Party held the district from 2009 to 2017. He won in 2009 with 8,404 votes and in 2013 with 10,252 (62.99%).","Elections BC's volume for 2002 to 2013 prints the name East Kootenay at the 2005 general election, where Bennett won with 8,060 votes (48.01%), and Kootenay East from 2009. The volume for 1987 to 2001 prints East Kootenay at the 37th general election in 2001, where Bennett won with 10,206 votes (61.85%). The Electoral Districts Act (SBC 1999 c. 31), assented to on 15 July 1999, raised the number of districts from 75 to 79 and took effect when the 36th Parliament was dissolved on 18 April 2001. The Electoral Districts Act (SBC 2008 c. 14), which received royal assent on May 1, 2008, raised the number from 79 to 85 for the 2009 election. The volume for 1871 to 1986 prints a district called Cranbrook, where Thomas Donald Caven of the Conservatives won in 1909 with 761 votes (54.16%) and Leo Thomas Nimsick of the CCF won in 1949 with 3,026 (50.53%).",[1791,1789,1935,1936,1937],"ebc-2002-2013","ebc-1987-2001","ebc-1871-1986",[1939,1944,1947,1950,1953,1956,1961,1964,1968,1972,1976,1979,1982,1986,1989,1992,1995,1998,2001,2004,2007,2010,2013,2016,2020,2024,2026,2031,2035,2040,2043,2047,2052,2056,2060],{"id":1789,"label":1940,"publisher":1941,"kind":1942,"url":1943,"checkedAt":1772},"Final report, April 3, 2023","British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission","government","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Frpt\u002FBCEBC-Final-Report-April-3-2023.pdf",{"id":1937,"label":1945,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"url":1946,"checkedAt":1772},"Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871 to 1986","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Frpt\u002F1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf",{"id":1936,"label":1948,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"url":1949,"checkedAt":1772},"Electoral History of British Columbia, Supplement, 1987 to 2001","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Frpt\u002F1987-2001-ElectionHistory.pdf",{"id":1935,"label":1951,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"url":1952,"checkedAt":1772},"Electoral History of British Columbia, Supplement, 2002 to 2013","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Frpt\u002F2002-2013-ElectionHistory.pdf",{"id":1791,"label":1954,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"url":1955,"checkedAt":1772},"Provincial election results data, including 2024","https:\u002F\u002Fcatalogue.data.gov.bc.ca\u002Fdataset\u002F44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935",{"id":1847,"label":1957,"publisher":1958,"kind":1959,"url":1960,"checkedAt":1772},"Ktunaxa territory and place names","Ktunaxa Nation Council","first-nation","https:\u002F\u002Fktunaxa.org\u002Fabout\u002Fmap\u002F",{"id":1913,"label":1962,"publisher":1958,"kind":1959,"url":1963,"checkedAt":1772},"Ktunaxa Nation celebrates milestone in Columbia River Treaty modernization","https:\u002F\u002Fktunaxa.org\u002Fresources\u002Fktunaxa-nation-celebrates-milestone-in-columbia-river-treaty-modernization\u002F",{"id":1891,"label":1965,"publisher":1966,"kind":1959,"url":1967,"checkedAt":1772},"St. Eugene Church","ʔaq̓am community","https:\u002F\u002Fwww2.aqam.net\u002Fabout\u002Fhistory\u002Fst-eugene-church\u002F",{"id":1850,"label":1969,"publisher":1970,"kind":1959,"url":1971,"checkedAt":1772},"About us","Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi'it First Nation","https:\u002F\u002Ftobaccoplains.org\u002Fabout-us",{"id":1848,"label":1973,"publisher":1974,"kind":1942,"url":1975,"checkedAt":1772},"ʔaq̓am (St. Mary's Indian Band)","Government of British Columbia","https:\u002F\u002Fwww2.gov.bc.ca\u002Fgov\u002Fcontent\u002Fenvironment\u002Fnatural-resource-stewardship\u002Fconsulting-with-first-nations\u002Ffirst-nations-negotiations\u002Ffirst-nations-a-z-listing\u002F-aq-am-st-mary-s-indian-band",{"id":1849,"label":1977,"publisher":1974,"kind":1942,"url":1978,"checkedAt":1772},"Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi'it (Tobacco Plains Indian Band)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww2.gov.bc.ca\u002Fgov\u002Fcontent\u002Fenvironment\u002Fnatural-resource-stewardship\u002Fconsulting-with-first-nations\u002Ffirst-nations-negotiations\u002Ffirst-nations-a-z-listing\u002Fyaq-it-a-knuq-i-it-tobacco-plains-indian-band",{"id":1911,"label":1980,"publisher":1974,"kind":1942,"url":1981,"checkedAt":1772},"About the Columbia River Treaty","https:\u002F\u002Fengage.gov.bc.ca\u002Fcolumbiarivertreaty\u002Fabout\u002F",{"id":1851,"label":1983,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":1985,"checkedAt":1772},"Cranbrook, BC Geographical Names record","BC Geographical Names Office","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F4786.html",{"id":1861,"label":1987,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":1988,"checkedAt":1772},"Fort Steele Heritage Town, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F40070.html",{"id":1873,"label":1990,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":1991,"checkedAt":1772},"Fernie, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F11937.html",{"id":1882,"label":1993,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":1994,"checkedAt":1772},"Moyie, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F8206.html",{"id":1874,"label":1996,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":1997,"checkedAt":1772},"Elko, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F9462.html",{"id":1922,"label":1999,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":2000,"checkedAt":1772},"Sparwood, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F21659.html",{"id":1923,"label":2002,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":2003,"checkedAt":1772},"Natal, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F9106.html",{"id":1924,"label":2005,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":2006,"checkedAt":1772},"Elkford, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F9449.html",{"id":1871,"label":2008,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":2009,"checkedAt":1772},"Michel Creek, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F23536.html",{"id":1790,"label":2011,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":2012,"checkedAt":1772},"Lake Koocanusa, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F6242.html",{"id":1912,"label":2014,"publisher":1984,"kind":1942,"url":2015,"checkedAt":1772},"Baynes Lake, BC Geographical Names record","https:\u002F\u002Fapps.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpub\u002Fbcgnws\u002Fnames\u002F20396.html",{"id":1883,"label":2017,"publisher":2018,"kind":1942,"url":2019,"checkedAt":1772},"St. Eugene mine, MINFILE 082GSW025","BC Geological Survey","https:\u002F\u002Fminfile.gov.bc.ca\u002FSummary.aspx?minfilno=082GSW025",{"id":1852,"label":1793,"publisher":2021,"kind":2022,"url":2023,"checkedAt":1772},"The Canadian Encyclopedia","reference","https:\u002F\u002Fthecanadianencyclopedia.ca\u002Fen\u002Farticle\u002Fcranbrook",{"id":1860,"label":1794,"publisher":2021,"kind":2022,"url":2025,"checkedAt":1772},"https:\u002F\u002Fthecanadianencyclopedia.ca\u002Fen\u002Farticle\u002Ffort-steele",{"id":1872,"label":2027,"publisher":2028,"kind":2029,"url":2030,"checkedAt":1772},"History and heritage","City of Fernie","municipal","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fernie.ca\u002FEN\u002Fmain\u002Fresidents\u002Fcommunity-life\u002Fhistory-heritage.html",{"id":1870,"label":2032,"publisher":2033,"kind":2029,"url":2034,"checkedAt":1772},"Virtual Museum","District of Sparwood","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sparwood.ca\u002Fparks-recreation-culture\u002Farts-culture-heritage\u002Fvirtual-museum",{"id":1902,"label":2036,"publisher":2037,"kind":2038,"url":2039,"checkedAt":1772},"Fernie history","Fernie Museum","archive","https:\u002F\u002Fferniemuseum.com\u002Fcollections-research\u002Ffernie-history\u002F",{"id":1903,"label":2041,"publisher":2037,"kind":2038,"url":2042,"checkedAt":1772},"Fernie's historic downtown","https:\u002F\u002Fferniemuseum.com\u002Ffernies-historic-downtown\u002F",{"id":1901,"label":2044,"publisher":2045,"kind":2038,"url":2046,"checkedAt":1772},"Mine accidents and disasters","Fernie Museum, Community Stories","https:\u002F\u002Fcommunitystories.ca\u002Fv2\u002Ffernie-community_communaute-fernie\u002F?p=29",{"id":1892,"label":2048,"publisher":2049,"kind":2050,"url":2051,"checkedAt":1772},"Human remains found at former residential school near Cranbrook, B.C.","Global News","news","https:\u002F\u002Fglobalnews.ca\u002Fnews\u002F7993173\u002Fhuman-remains-residential-school-cranbrook-bc\u002Famp",{"id":1893,"label":2053,"publisher":2054,"kind":2050,"url":2055,"checkedAt":1772},"182 unmarked graves found at 3rd former residential school","ICT News","https:\u002F\u002Fictnews.org\u002Fnews\u002F182-unmarked-graves-found-at-3rd-former-residential-school\u002F",{"id":1925,"label":2057,"publisher":2058,"kind":2050,"url":2059,"checkedAt":1772},"Teck fined $60 million over selenium pollution in the Elk Valley","The Narwhal","https:\u002F\u002Fthenarwhal.ca\u002Fbc-teck-fined-60-million-selenium-fisheries-act",{"id":1926,"label":2061,"publisher":2062,"kind":2050,"url":2063,"checkedAt":1772},"Teck closes sale of coal business to Glencore","BNN Bloomberg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bnnbloomberg.ca\u002Fbusiness\u002Fcompany-news\u002F2024\u002F07\u002F11\u002Fteck-closes-sale-of-coal-business-to-glencore-in-wake-of-federal-approval\u002F","elections\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fdistricts\u002Fkootenay-rockies","Kootenay-Rockies is a provincial electoral district in the southeast corner of British Columbia, bounded by Alberta in the east and the United States in the south. It takes in Cranbrook, Fernie, Sparwood, Elkford and smaller communities such as Hosmer, Elko, Baynes Lake, Grasmere, Moyie and Fort Steele. The 2021 census counted 41,335 people, and the Electoral Boundaries Commission gives its area as 12,127 square kilometres.","e1NMWa-_is4aiHd_jtK12haN1_kgVH-qao28UZRFGTU",[2068,2743,2848,3382,3714,4289,4402,4509,5086,5194],{"id":2069,"aliases":2070,"checkedAt":25,"declaredColour":11,"extension":1771,"founded":2071,"headline":2077,"history":2078,"leadership":2142,"logo":2154,"meta":2158,"money":2159,"name":263,"news":2184,"overview":2224,"palette":2229,"platform":2234,"questions":2561,"record":2587,"registeredName":2627,"rosterLabel":263,"slug":2628,"sources":2629,"stem":2736,"summary":2737,"website":2157,"wordmark":2738,"__hash__":2742},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-green-party.json",[],{"year":2072,"note":2073,"cites":2074},1983,"Adriane Carr founded the party in February 1983, according to CBC News.",[2075,2076],"cbc-birth","knowbc-green","BC Green Party: leader, plan and record for the 2026 BC election",{"entries":2079,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2133,"gaps":2139},[2080,2084,2088,2092,2096,2101,2107,2112,2117,2124],{"title":2081,"body":2082,"cites":2083},"Founded in February 1983","Adriane Carr, then a geography teacher at Langara College, founded the party in February 1983, two months before a provincial election. It ran four candidates that year and won 0.19 percent of the vote.",[2075,2076],{"title":2085,"body":2086,"cites":2087},"First MLA elected in 2013","Andrew Weaver won a Victoria-area seat in the 2013 election, the party’s first seat in the legislature.",[2076],{"title":2089,"body":2090,"cites":2091},"Three MLAs and support for an NDP government in 2017","Under Andrew Weaver the party elected 3 MLAs in 2017 and agreed to support an NDP government.",[2076],{"title":2093,"body":2094,"cites":2095},"Three seats kept in 2020","Under leader Sonia Furstenau the party kept 3 seats in the October 2020 election, which the NDP won with a majority.",[2076],{"date":2097,"title":2098,"body":2099,"cites":2100},"2024-10-19","2024 election: 2 seats","The party ran 69 candidates, won 173,377 votes (8.24 percent) and elected Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote. Leader Sonia Furstenau lost in Victoria-Beacon Hill with 9,644 votes (33.50 percent).",[42],{"date":2102,"title":2103,"body":2104,"cites":2105},"2024-12-13","Co-operation accord with the NDP government announced","The NDP government and the Greens announced the Co-operation and Responsible Government Accord, which named shared goals such as community health centres, transit in under-served areas and a look at electoral reform.",[2106],"cbc-accord-2024",{"title":2108,"body":2109,"cites":2110},"Sonia Furstenau steps down, January 2025","Sonia Furstenau stepped down as leader in January 2025 after losing her seat. Jeremy Valeriote acted as interim leader.",[2111],"cbc-lowan-leader",{"date":2113,"title":2114,"body":2115,"cites":2116},"2025-09-24","Emily Lowan elected leader","Emily Lowan won the leadership on the first ballot with 3,189 votes. Jonathan Kerr received 1,908 and Adam Bremner-Akins 128.",[2111],{"date":2118,"title":2119,"body":2120,"cites":2121},"2026-02-09","Greens end the accord","The party said it would not renew the accord with the NDP government, and its two MLAs began voting bill by bill.",[2122,2123],"cbc-accord-end","global-accord-end",{"date":2125,"title":2126,"body":2127,"cites":2128},"2026-09-23","Lowan to run in Saanich North and the Islands","Rob Botterell said he would not seek re-election, and Emily Lowan announced she would run in his district.",[2129,2130,2131],"bp-lowan-saanich","vicbuzz-lowan-saanich","green-election-plans","researched",[2134,2135,2136,2137,2138],"CBC News archive article on the party’s founding","The Encyclopedia of British Columbia entry on KnowBC","Elections BC statement of votes, 2024","CBC News and Global News reports from 2024 to 2026","The party’s About us page, used for leads only",[2140,2141],"Results of elections before 2024 are taken from the encyclopedia entry and have not been checked against Elections BC reports.","Leaders between 1985 and 2013 are not listed.",[2143,2149],{"role":2144,"name":2145,"since":2113,"cites":2146},"Leader","Emily Lowan",[2147,2111,2148],"register","cbc-leaders-2026",{"role":2150,"name":2151,"cites":2152},"Executive director","Alex Brunke",[2153],"green-hudema",{"src":2155,"alt":2156,"sourceUrl":2157,"checkedAt":25},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fbc-green-party.webp","BC Green Party logo","https:\u002F\u002Fbcgreens.ca\u002F",{},{"searchUrl":2160,"filings":2161,"notes":2173,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2177,"gaps":2181},"https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002FWelcome.aspx",[2162,2167,2170],{"period":124,"kind":2163,"note":2164,"cites":2165},"Annual allowance paid by Elections BC","$163,841.27 on January 15 and $163,841.26 on July 15, a total of $327,682.53, based on the party’s 2024 votes.",[2166],"ebc-annual-allowances",{"period":1776,"kind":2163,"note":2168,"cites":2169},"$160,481.03 on January 15 and $160,266.42 on July 15, a total of $320,747.45, based on the party’s 2024 votes.",[2166],{"period":1661,"kind":2163,"note":2171,"cites":2172},"$257,156.66 on January 15 and $257,156.66 on July 15, a total of $514,313.32, based on the party’s 2020 votes.",[2166],[2174,2175,2176],"Elections BC pays a yearly allowance to a registered party whose candidates won at least 2 percent of all valid votes in the last general election, or at least 5 percent of the votes in the districts where it ran candidates.","For 2026, the allowance is $1.89 for each valid vote the party received in the 2024 election. It is paid in two equal parts, on January 15 and July 15.","Parties file their financial reports with Elections BC. Anyone can read the filed reports in the Financial Reports and Political Contributions System.",[2178,2179,2180],"Elections BC annual allowances page","Elections BC Financial Reports and Political Contributions System, opening page","Elections BC provincial financing page",[2182,2183],"The party’s annual financial reports (donations and spending) have not been opened and transcribed yet. The reports sit behind a search form, and this review did not go through it.","No figure for 2026 election spending is on the public record yet.",{"entries":2185,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2219,"gaps":2222},[2186,2191,2195,2201,2206,2211,2215],{"date":2118,"publisher":2187,"title":2188,"url":2189,"summary":2190},"CBC News","B.C. Greens pull out of governing accord with B.C. NDP","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fb-c-greens-pull-out-of-governing-accord-with-b-c-ndp-9.7081452","The Greens said they would not sign a new co-operation accord with the NDP government, saying health centres, transit and electoral reform had stalled. Jeremy Valeriote said he and Rob Botterell would vote bill by bill.",{"date":2118,"publisher":2049,"title":2192,"url":2193,"summary":2194},"BC Green Party says it won't renew co-operation agreement with BC NDP","https:\u002F\u002Fglobalnews.ca\u002Fnews\u002F11659582\u002Fbc-green-party-wont-renew-co-operation-agreement-bc-ndp\u002F","Emily Lowan said the decision to call an election rested with the NDP majority. Deputy Premier Niki Sharma said the two sides could not agree because the Greens would not rule out voting with the Conservatives on confidence votes.",{"date":2196,"publisher":2197,"title":2198,"url":2199,"summary":2200},"2026-09-22","CBC News (The Canadian Press)","Meet the party leaders running in B.C.'s provincial election","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fbc-provincial-election-party-leaders-list-9.7354333","A profile of each party leader. It says Emily Lowan has led the Greens since 2025, has no seat, and leads two MLAs, Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote.",{"date":2125,"publisher":2202,"title":2203,"url":2204,"summary":2205},"Black Press Media","B.C. Greens Leader Lowan to run in Saanich North and the Islands","https:\u002F\u002Fvernonmorningstar.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F23\u002Fb-c-greens-leader-lowan-to-run-in-saanich-north-and-the-islands\u002F","Rob Botterell said he would not run again and that the choice was his own. Lowan said most of the party’s election resources would go to the south of Vancouver Island, and that cost of living is its top issue.",{"date":2125,"publisher":2207,"title":2208,"url":2209,"summary":2210},"Victoria Buzz","BC Greens leader Emily Lowan to run in Saanich North and the Islands","https:\u002F\u002Fvictoriabuzz.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fbc-greens-leader-emily-lowan-to-run-in-saanich-north-and-the-islands\u002F","Botterell endorsed Lowan in his district, and Jeremy Valeriote said he would seek re-election in West Vancouver-Sea to Sky.",{"date":75,"publisher":2202,"title":2212,"url":2213,"summary":2214},"BC Greens announce new candidate for Victoria-Swan Lake, childcare plans","https:\u002F\u002Fsookenewsmirror.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F28\u002Fbc-greens-announce-new-candidate-for-victoria-swan-lake-childcare-plans\u002F","Lowan announced a plan to restart the $10-a-day child care expansion and reach universal free child care by 2031, and named Carolyn Howe as the candidate in Victoria-Swan Lake.",{"date":306,"publisher":2207,"title":2216,"url":2217,"summary":2218},"BC Greens focus on renters and childcare as NDP and Conservatives roll out economic plans","https:\u002F\u002Fvictoriabuzz.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fbc-greens-focus-on-renters-and-childcare-as-ndp-and-conservatives-roll-out-economic-plans\u002F","The Greens announced vacancy control and other renter measures, and opposed the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion, which the NDP and Conservatives support.",[2220,2221],"Web searches for the party and its leader with 2026, September 2026","Each article listed here, opened and read",[2223],"No coverage index before February 2026 has been compiled for this year.",[2225,2226,2227,2228],"The BC Green Party elected Rob Botterell (Saanich North and the Islands) and Jeremy Valeriote (West Vancouver-Sea to Sky) in the 2024 election, and the legislature’s records read on 2026-09-30 list both as Green members.","Emily Lowan has led the party since 2025-09-24, when members elected her on the first ballot. She has no seat in the legislature. She is running in Saanich North and the Islands, where Rob Botterell is not seeking re-election.","The party says it is running on four commitments: \"A Life You Can Afford\", \"Care You Can Count On\", \"Economic Fairness for All\" and \"Fight for the Future\". It says it would pay for its plan by taxing the richest people and large corporations more.","In the 2024 election the party ran 69 candidates, received 173,377 votes (8.24 percent) and elected 2 MLAs, according to Elections BC.",{"accent":2230,"onAccent":2231,"tint":2232,"ink":2233},"#15803D","#FFFFFF","#e8f2ec","#1F2933",[2235,2294,2327,2368,2385,2421,2430,2464,2499,2518,2542],{"issue":181,"paragraphs":2236,"proposals":2241,"questions":2283,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2288,"gaps":2292},[2237,2238,2239,2240],"The BC Green Party says it would build and protect 26,000 permanently affordable, non-market homes a year, and make it easier and faster to build all forms of housing.","On 2026-09-29 the party published a plan for renters. It says it would bring back vacancy control, which ties the allowed rent increase to the home instead of the tenant, so a landlord could not raise the rent each time a tenant moves out. The party says yearly increases would still be set by the Residential Tenancy Branch.","The party blames the BC NDP government for cancelling the Community Housing Fund and says it would restart that fund on day one.","The party’s Our Plan page, read on 2026-09-30, says its full platform is still to come.",[2242,2249,2255,2259,2264,2269,2274,2279],{"title":2243,"detail":2244,"authority":2245,"cites":2246},"Restart the Community Housing Fund and the Indigenous Housing Fund","The party says it would immediately restart both funds, with a goal of building and protecting 26,000 housing units a year.","The provincial government funds these programs through BC Housing and the provincial budget.",[2247,2248],"green-renters","green-our-plan",{"title":2250,"detail":2251,"authority":2252,"cites":2253},"Vacancy control on rents","Rent increases would be tied to the rental unit, so a new tenant would pay the same rent as the one before, plus the allowed yearly increase.","A change to the Residential Tenancy Act, passed by the legislature.",[2247,2248,2254],"vicbuzz-renters-childcare",{"title":2256,"detail":2257,"authority":2252,"cites":2258},"End blanket no-pet clauses in rental contracts","The party would amend the Residential Tenancy Act to prohibit blanket no-pets clauses and write guidelines on pets in rentals instead.",[2247,2254],{"title":2260,"detail":2261,"authority":2262,"cites":2263},"Protect 2,000 low-rent homes each year","The party would add money and support to the Rental Protection Fund so that 2,000 deeply affordable rental homes are protected each year.","A provincial budget decision.",[2247],{"title":2265,"detail":2266,"authority":2267,"cites":2268},"More direct rent help","The party would increase support through the Rental Assistance Program and the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program for renters who cannot afford market rents.","Provincial rent support programs.",[2247],{"title":2270,"detail":2271,"authority":2272,"cites":2273},"A rent review when local rents fall","Renters could ask the Residential Tenancy Branch for a yearly rent review when market rents in their city are going down.","The province runs the Residential Tenancy Branch.",[2247],{"title":2275,"detail":2276,"authority":2277,"cites":2278},"Deposits held by the Residential Tenancy Branch","The branch would collect and hold damage deposits, and would publish the rent data it gathers this way.","A change to provincial tenancy law.",[2247],{"title":2280,"detail":2281,"cites":2282},"Housing designed by Indigenous communities","The party would fund Indigenous-led complex care housing, with rent supplements set aside for Indigenous people and run with guidance from Indigenous organizations.",[2247],[2284],{"question":2285,"answer":2286,"cites":2287},"What is vacancy control?","It is a rule that ties the allowed rent increase to the home. Today in BC, rent increases are limited while a tenant stays, but a landlord can set a new rent when the tenant leaves. The BC Green Party says it would end that gap.",[2247,2254],[2289,2290,2291],"The BC Green Party Our Plan page, https:\u002F\u002Fbcgreens.ca\u002Four-plan\u002F","The renter plan release of 2026-09-29 and its policy brief","Every BC Green Party media release listed from 2026-07-29 to 2026-09-30, https:\u002F\u002Fbcgreens.ca\u002Fmedia-releases\u002F",[2293],"The party gives no cost and no year-by-year schedule for the housing plan.",{"issue":195,"paragraphs":2295,"proposals":2298,"questions":2323,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2324,"gaps":2325},[2296,2297,2240],"Under the heading \"Care You Can Count On\", the BC Green Party lists five health commitments. The party gives no cost and no date for them.","In August 2026 the party criticised the government’s decision to cancel a planned overdose prevention site in downtown Vancouver. Party leader Emily Lowan and MLA Rob Botterell called for a regulated drug supply and voluntary treatment.",[2299,2304,2309,2313,2318],{"title":2300,"detail":2301,"authority":2302,"cites":2303},"Community Health Centres in every region","The party says it would build Community Health Centres in every region, with team-based care and long-term support.","Provincial health funding, delivered through the health authorities.",[2248],{"title":2305,"detail":2306,"cites":2307},"Finish safe nurse-to-patient ratios","The party says it would finish delivering safe nurse-to-patient ratios. It says the government legislated the ratios and then let the rollout stall.",[2248,2308],"green-snap",{"title":2310,"detail":2311,"cites":2312},"Keep public health money in public care","The party says every public health dollar would stay in public care.",[2248],{"title":2314,"detail":2315,"authority":2316,"cites":2317},"Mental health care covered by the public system","The party says mental health care would be covered through the public health system.","Provincial health funding.",[2248],{"title":2319,"detail":2320,"cites":2321},"Harm reduction and voluntary care for the toxic drug crisis","The party says it would respond to the toxic drug crisis with harm reduction and more money for voluntary care, and it has called for a regulated drug supply.",[2248,2322],"green-health-minister",[],[2289,2291],[2326],"The party has published no health cost, no timeline, and no count of the Community Health Centres it would build.",{"issue":167,"paragraphs":2328,"proposals":2331,"questions":2359,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2364,"gaps":2366},[2329,2330,2240],"Under the heading \"A Life You Can Afford\", the BC Green Party lists commitments on child care, income assistance and wages.","On 2026-09-28 the party published a child care plan. It says it would lift the freeze on new $10-a-day child care spaces that it says came in with Budget 2026, and reach free child care for every family by 2031.",[2332,2340,2344,2349,2354],{"title":2333,"detail":2334,"authority":2335,"deadline":2336,"cites":2337},"Lift the freeze on $10-a-day child care","The party would make $10-a-day spaces available again across the province and use that system to reach universal free child care.","A provincial budget and ministry program decision.","Universal free child care by 2031, the party says.",[2338,2248,2339,2254],"green-childcare","bp-childcare",{"title":2341,"detail":2342,"cites":2343},"One registration point for child care","Families would register once for $10-a-day spaces across BC, in place of separate waitlists at each centre.",[2338,2339],{"title":2345,"detail":2346,"deadline":2347,"cites":2348},"A wage grid for early childhood educators","The party would set a wage grid for early childhood educators, reaching $35 to $45 an hour based on training and years worked, with paid practicums, pensions and health benefits.","$35 to $45 an hour by 2028, the party says.",[2338,2339],{"title":2350,"detail":2351,"authority":2352,"cites":2353},"Raise income and disability assistance above the poverty line","The party would raise social and disability assistance rates above the poverty line, tie them to inflation and end clawbacks.","The province sets income and disability assistance rates.",[2248],{"title":2355,"detail":2356,"authority":2357,"cites":2358},"Faster minimum wage increases and sectoral bargaining","The party would raise the minimum wage faster toward a living wage and give every worker the chance to join a union through bargaining across a whole sector.","The province sets the minimum wage and labour law.",[2248],[2360],{"question":2361,"answer":2362,"cites":2363},"What would the Greens do about $10-a-day child care?","The party says it would lift the freeze on new $10-a-day spaces and reach free child care for every family by 2031.",[2338,2339],[2289,2365,2291],"The child care release of 2026-09-28 and its policy brief",[2367],"The party gives no cost for its child care plan or its assistance rate increase.",{"issue":211,"paragraphs":2369,"proposals":2373,"questions":2380,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2381,"gaps":2383},[2370,2371,2372,2240],"The BC Green Party’s Our Plan page has no section on policing, courts or prisons.","In its statement for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the party says it would create a task force to investigate and prosecute cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, children and Two-Spirit people.","In an August 2026 release, MLA Rob Botterell argued that public safety and harm reduction can be pursued together, with a regulated supply, voluntary services and supportive housing.",[2374],{"title":2375,"detail":2376,"authority":2377,"cites":2378},"Task force on missing and murdered Indigenous women, children and Two-Spirit people","The task force would investigate and prosecute cases under civilian oversight from Indigenous communities, and follow the Red Women Rising report.","The province funds policing and runs prosecutions.",[2379],"green-tdr",[],[2289,2382,2291],"The statement of 2026-09-30 on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation",[2384],"The party has published no 2026 plan on police funding, courts, bail or prisons.",{"issue":174,"paragraphs":2386,"proposals":2390,"questions":2415,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2416,"gaps":2419},[2387,2388,2389,2240],"Under the heading \"Economic Fairness for All\", the BC Green Party says the province should get a larger return from its natural resources.","The party opposes the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion. On 2026-09-29 Emily Lowan said public money should go to renewable energy and Canadian-owned industry. The party says Phase 2 will create at most 150 permanent jobs; voche.me has not checked that figure.","In August and September 2026 the party called for the new Oil and Gas Royalty Framework to be put on hold. MLA Rob Botterell said he had asked the Auditor General to investigate a gas royalty forecasting error.",[2391,2398,2402,2406,2411],{"title":2392,"detail":2393,"authority":2394,"cites":2395},"A new royalty deal for oil and gas","The party would end fossil fuel subsidies, take back control of royalty rates, and make existing LNG projects pay their own power costs.","The province collects resource royalties and sets their terms.",[2248,2396,2397],"green-royalty","green-royalty-ag",{"title":2399,"detail":2400,"cites":2401},"Community and Indigenous ownership of resources","The party says BC should get stronger public returns from its natural resources, with community and Indigenous ownership.",[2248],{"title":2403,"detail":2404,"cites":2405},"Commercial rent control for small business","The party says it would support small businesses through commercial rent control and Community Wealth Building.",[2248],{"title":2407,"detail":2408,"authority":2409,"cites":2410},"Selective logging and wood processing jobs","The party would move forestry to selective logging and more value-added wood products, and would fully fund old-growth deferrals with fair pay to First Nations and forestry communities.","The province manages Crown forests.",[2248],{"title":2412,"detail":2413,"cites":2414},"Update mining laws","The party says it would modernise mining laws to protect communities and focus on the minerals BC needs for renewable energy.",[2248],[],[2289,2417,2418,2291],"The LNG Canada statement of 2026-09-29","The royalty releases of 2026-08-31 and 2026-09-17",[2420],"The party gives no cost or revenue figure for its royalty changes in the 2026 plan page.",{"issue":203,"paragraphs":2422,"proposals":2423,"questions":2424,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2426,"gaps":2428},[],[],[],"none-published",[2289,2291,2427],"The party’s 2024 platform page, read for context only, https:\u002F\u002Fbcgreens.ca\u002Fpolicy-book\u002F",[2429],"On 2026-09-30 the party had published no 2026 commitment on K to 12 schools, teachers, colleges or university tuition. Its child care plan is listed under cost of living.",{"issue":219,"paragraphs":2431,"proposals":2434,"questions":2458,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2459,"gaps":2461},[2432,2433,2240],"Under the heading \"Fight for the Future\", the BC Green Party says it would stop new fossil fuel development and adopt a climate plan that it says follows the science.","On 2026-08-04 Emily Lowan called on the government to declare a state of emergency over wildfires and to double the FireSmart budget.",[2435,2441,2445,2449,2453],{"title":2436,"detail":2437,"authority":2438,"cites":2439},"Stop new fossil fuel development","The party says it would stop new fossil fuel development in BC.","Provincial permits and environmental assessment.",[2248,2440],"green-lng",{"title":2442,"detail":2443,"cites":2444},"A climate plan based on the science","The party says it would put in place a climate plan that protects this and future generations.",[2248],{"title":2446,"detail":2447,"cites":2448},"Clean energy and home retrofits","The party would support clean energy and home energy upgrades that it says would lower bills and create union jobs.",[2248,2440],{"title":2450,"detail":2451,"cites":2452},"Fund old-growth deferrals","The party would fully fund deferrals on old-growth logging, with fair payment to First Nations and forestry communities.",[2248],{"title":2454,"detail":2455,"cites":2456},"Wildfire measures","The party called for a wildfire state of emergency, twice the FireSmart budget, the recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review, and its own Clean Air Act, which it says it introduced in 2024 and 2025.",[2457],"green-wildfire",[],[2289,2460,2417,2291],"The wildfire statement of 2026-08-04",[2462,2463],"The party names no emissions target and no date for its climate plan.","voche.me has not checked the legislature record for the Clean Air Act the party says it introduced.",{"issue":152,"paragraphs":2465,"proposals":2467,"questions":2494,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2495,"gaps":2497},[2466,2240],"On 2026-09-30 the BC Green Party published an Indigenous rights policy brief. It says it would put the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act into effect through legislation, and it calls on Premier David Eby to apologise to the Cowichan and Gitxaała for his government’s handling of that law.",[2468,2473,2477,2481,2486,2490],{"title":2469,"detail":2470,"authority":2471,"cites":2472},"Put the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act into effect through legislation","The party says this would remove uncertainty about how the law applies.","An act of the legislature.",[2379],{"title":2474,"detail":2475,"authority":2471,"cites":2476},"An Indigenous Languages Act","The law would guarantee Indigenous language rights and fund language work in communities.",[2379],{"title":2478,"detail":2479,"cites":2480},"Indigenous names on government ID","Government-issued identification would accept all Indigenous languages, so people can use their own names.",[2379],{"title":2482,"detail":2483,"authority":2484,"cites":2485},"A standing committee on Crown and Indigenous relations","The party would re-establish and rename the legislature’s Aboriginal Affairs committee, with a public expert advisory committee on Indigenous rights and constitutional law.","The legislature sets up its own committees.",[2379],{"title":2487,"detail":2488,"cites":2489},"Support modern treaties and a dispute process","The party would improve the modern treaty process and build, with Indigenous peoples, a way to settle disputes before they reach court.",[2379],{"title":2491,"detail":2492,"cites":2493},"Public education on the Declaration Act","The party would fund public education on the law, and training for MLAs and public servants on Indigenous history.",[2379],[],[2496,2289,2291],"The statement and policy brief of 2026-09-30",[2498],"The party gives no cost or timeline for these measures.",{"issue":876,"paragraphs":2500,"proposals":2503,"questions":2514,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2515,"gaps":2516},[2501,2502,2240],"The BC Green Party says it would make transit \"fast, frequent, and free\". The party says its tax plan would pay for free transit, along with health centres and child care.","MLA Jeremy Valeriote names regional transit and passenger rail among the priorities he has worked on since 2024, according to a party release.",[2504,2509],{"title":2505,"detail":2506,"authority":2507,"cites":2508},"Fast, frequent and free transit","The party says public transit would be fast, frequent and free to ride.","The province funds transit.",[2248,2131],{"title":2510,"detail":2511,"cites":2512},"Passenger rail on the old CN line","In September 2026 Jeremy Valeriote joined a media event on the BC Rail Corridor Alliance’s push to reuse the closed CN rail line between Squamish and 100 Mile House, the party says.",[2513,2131],"green-rail",[],[2289,2291],[2517],"The 2026 plan page gives no cost and no start date for free transit.",{"issue":131,"paragraphs":2519,"proposals":2522,"questions":2537,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2538,"gaps":2539},[2520,2521,2240],"The BC Green Party calls its tax plan the Fair Share Act. It says the act would make people worth more than $100 million and large corporations pay more, and would raise more than $13 billion for Community Health Centres, free transit and child care. voche.me has not checked that figure.","In its 2024 platform the party published a revenue estimate and later corrected one line of it: on 2024-10-02 it said an excess corporate profits tax would raise $410 million a year, where the platform had said $4,100 million.",[2523,2529,2533],{"title":2524,"detail":2525,"cost":2526,"authority":2527,"cites":2528},"Tax the richest people in BC","The party says the few hundred richest people in BC would pay more tax.","More than $13 billion in revenue from the Fair Share Act as a whole, the party says.","Provincial income and property taxes are set by the legislature.",[2248],{"title":2530,"detail":2531,"cites":2532},"A windfall tax on large corporations","The party would tax windfall profits of large corporations to pay for health centres and transit and to reduce the provincial debt.",[2248],{"title":2534,"detail":2535,"cites":2536},"End subsidies to fossil fuel companies","The party says it would end the subsidies fossil fuel companies receive.",[2248,2440],[],[2289,2427,2291],[2540,2541],"The 2026 plan page does not show how the $13 billion figure is calculated.","The party has published no 2026 costing of its full platform.",{"issue":143,"paragraphs":2543,"proposals":2546,"questions":2557,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2558,"gaps":2559},[2544,2545,2240],"The BC Green Party says it would bring in proportional representation, a voting system where the share of seats follows the share of votes, within its first 100 days.","In August 2026 MLA Rob Botterell said he had written to the Auditor General to ask for an independent investigation into a gas royalty forecasting error in Budget 2026.",[2547,2553],{"title":2548,"detail":2549,"authority":2550,"deadline":2551,"cites":2552},"Proportional representation law","The party says it would pass legislation for proportional representation.","The province decides election rules through acts of the legislature.","Within the first 100 days, the party says.",[2248],{"title":2554,"detail":2555,"cites":2556},"Auditor General review of royalty forecasts","The party asked the Auditor General to investigate how the royalty forecasting error entered Budget 2026 and to recommend safeguards.",[2397],[],[2289,2291],[2560],"voche.me has not checked whether the Auditor General agreed to the request.",[2562,2566,2570,2575,2579,2583],{"question":2563,"answer":2564,"cites":2565},"Who leads the BC Green Party?","Emily Lowan. Members elected her leader on 2025-09-24, and Elections BC lists her as the party’s leader. She has no seat in the legislature.",[2147,2111],{"question":2567,"answer":2568,"cites":2569},"Where is Emily Lowan running?","In Saanich North and the Islands. The sitting Green MLA there, Rob Botterell, is not running again.",[2129,2131],{"question":2571,"answer":2572,"cites":2573},"How many seats does the party hold now?","2 of 93, held by Jeremy Valeriote and Rob Botterell, according to the legislature on 2026-09-30.",[2574],"standings",{"question":2576,"answer":2577,"cites":2578},"Did the Greens support the NDP government?","From December 2024 the two parties had a co-operation accord. The Greens ended it on 2026-02-09, and their MLAs now vote bill by bill.",[2106,2122],{"question":2580,"answer":2581,"cites":2582},"Has the party published a full platform?","On 2026-09-30 its plan page listed four groups of commitments and said the full platform is coming soon. The party has also released separate plans for renters, child care and Indigenous rights.",[2248,2247,2338,2379],{"question":2584,"answer":2585,"cites":2586},"How would the party pay for its plan?","The party says a Fair Share Act would tax people worth more than $100 million and large corporations, and would raise more than $13 billion. voche.me has not checked that figure.",[2248],{"entries":2588,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2619,"gaps":2622},[2589,2595,2599,2603,2607,2611,2615],{"title":2590,"body":2591,"cites":2592},"Both Green MLAs voted against the 2026 budget","The legislature’s 2026 voting record lists Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote as voting Nay on the budget motion, and Nay at second and third reading of the Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2026 (Bill 2).",[2593,2594],"leg-votes-botterell","leg-votes-valeriote",{"title":2596,"body":2597,"cites":2598},"Both Green MLAs voted against the Supply Act, 2026-2027","Bill 22 is the act that approves government spending for the year. Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote are each recorded as voting Nay at third reading.",[2593,2594],{"title":2600,"body":2601,"cites":2602},"Both Green MLAs voted against the 2026 freedom of information changes","Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote are each recorded as voting Nay at second and third reading of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2026 (Bill 9). Botterell moved an amendment to clause 13 of the bill and is recorded as voting Yea on it.",[2593,2594],{"title":2604,"body":2605,"cites":2606},"Both Green MLAs voted for the K’ómoks Treaty Act","Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote are each recorded as voting Yea at second and third reading of the K’ómoks Treaty Act (Bill 20).",[2593,2594],{"title":2608,"body":2609,"cites":2610},"Both Green MLAs voted for the Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 2026","Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote are each recorded as voting Yea at third reading of Bill 14.",[2593,2594],{"title":2612,"body":2613,"cites":2614},"Both Green MLAs voted for the Safe Access to Schools Amendment Act, 2026","Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote are each recorded as voting Yea at third reading of Bill 12.",[2593,2594],{"title":2616,"body":2617,"cites":2618},"Both Green MLAs voted against introducing bills to repeal the Declaration Act and the Human Rights Code","Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote are each recorded as voting Nay at first reading of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Repeal Act and of the Human Rights Code Repeal Act. First reading is the vote on whether a bill may be introduced.",[2593,2594],[2620,2621],"The legislature’s 2026 index of standing votes for Rob Botterell","The legislature’s 2026 index of standing votes for Jeremy Valeriote",[2623,2624,2625,2626],"The vote index gives the sitting and time of each vote. voche.me has not yet matched each vote to its calendar date.","Votes decided by voice record no names, so they are left out.","Votes before 2026 have not been checked.","Bills that Green MLAs introduced themselves have not been listed yet.","Green Party Political Association of British Columbia","bc-green-party",[2630,2633,2635,2638,2639,2642,2645,2648,2652,2656,2659,2662,2666,2670,2673,2676,2679,2682,2685,2689,2693,2697,2701,2705,2709,2713,2716,2717,2719,2720,2721,2722,2725,2729,2733,2734],{"id":2147,"label":2631,"url":2632,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Registered political parties in British 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The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation first ran in a British Columbia election in 1933.",[2856,2857],"knowbc-ndp","tyee-lookback","The governing party, led by Premier David Eby",{"entries":2860,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2912,"gaps":2917},[2861,2865,2869,2873,2877,2881,2885,2891,2896,2901,2906],{"title":2862,"body":2863,"cites":2864},"1933: the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation enters B.C. politics","The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the party the NDP grew from, ran in its first B.C. election in 1933 and won 7 seats with 31.5% of the vote, The Tyee reported.",[2857],{"title":2866,"body":2867,"cites":2868},"1961: the New Democratic Party of B.C. is formed","In October 1961, at a convention in Vancouver, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation joined with organized labour and took the name New Democratic Party. Robert Strachan stayed on as leader.",[2856],{"title":2870,"body":2871,"cites":2872},"1972: first NDP government","Dave Barrett led the NDP to its first provincial win in 1972, with 38 of 55 seats. The party lost power in 1975.",[2856,2857],{"title":2874,"body":2875,"cites":2876},"1991 and 1996: two wins in a row","Mike Harcourt led the party back to power in 1991 with 51 of 75 seats. Glen Clark won again in 1996 with 39 of 75 seats, the first time the NDP won two B.C. elections in a row.",[2856,2857],{"title":2878,"body":2879,"cites":2880},"2001: reduced to two seats","The NDP under Ujjal Dosanjh won two seats in the 2001 election.",[2856],{"title":2882,"body":2883,"cites":2884},"2017: minority government under John Horgan","The NDP won two fewer seats than the Liberals in 2017 but formed a minority government with the support of three Green Party members.",[2856],{"date":2886,"title":2887,"body":2888,"cites":2889},"2020-10-24","2020: majority government","The NDP won 57 seats with 898,384 valid votes, 47.69% of the total, in the 2020 election.",[2890],"ebc-sov2020",{"title":2892,"body":2893,"cites":2894},"2022: David Eby becomes leader","David Eby became leader with no opponent left in the race, after the party disqualified Anjali Appadurai. He replaced John Horgan as premier.",[2895,2148,2856],"cbc-eby-acclaimed",{"date":2097,"title":2897,"body":2898,"cites":2899},"2024: a one-seat majority","The NDP won 47 of 93 seats with 944,579 valid votes, 44.87% of the total. The Conservative Party won 44 seats.",[2900,2148],"ebc-sov2024",{"title":2902,"body":2903,"cites":2904},"2025 convention","By the party’s own account, members at its November 2025 convention supported Eby’s leadership with more than 82% and elected former MLA Aman Singh as party president.",[2905],"rel-convention2025",{"date":2196,"title":2907,"body":2908,"cites":2909},"Early election called","Eby called an election for October 24, 2026, two years ahead of schedule, and a by-election set for September 26 in Abbotsford-Mission was cancelled.",[2910,2911],"news-cbc-call","news-abby-cands",[2913,2914,2915,2916],"Elections BC statements of votes for 2020 and 2024","The Encyclopedia of British Columbia entry on the NDP","The Tyee’s 2005 history of the party’s election results","CBC reporting on the 2022 leadership race",[2918,2919],"Vote counts before 2020 were taken from The Tyee and the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, and have not been checked against Elections BC reports.","The exact date Eby became leader has not been confirmed from a source dated after the event.",[2921],{"role":2144,"name":2922,"cites":2923},"David Eby",[2147,2148],{"src":2925,"alt":2926,"sourceUrl":271,"checkedAt":25},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fbc-ndp.webp","BC NDP logo",{},{"searchUrl":2929,"filings":2930,"notes":2938,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2942,"gaps":2946},"https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002FOptions.aspx",[2931,2935],{"period":1776,"kind":2163,"note":2932,"cites":2933},"$873,628.28 on January 15, 2025 and $873,842.87 on July 15, 2025, based on the party’s votes in the 2024 election. 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A cash gift must be $100 or less.","The party’s own annual and election financial reports are filed with Elections BC and can be read in its Financial Reports and Political Contributions System.",[2943,2944,2945],"The Elections BC annual allowances page","The Elections BC page on making a political contribution","The Elections BC Financial Reports and Political Contributions System",[2947],"The party’s own annual financial reports and its 2024 election financing report have not been opened and transcribed. The Elections BC search runs through a form that did not return results to a direct request on September 30, 2026.",{"entries":2949,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":2979,"gaps":2982},[2950,2954,2959,2965,2970,2975],{"date":2196,"publisher":2187,"title":2951,"url":2952,"summary":2953},"British Columbia’s next provincial election set for Oct. 24 after Eby calls early vote","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Flivestory\u002Fbritish-columbia-snap-election-2026-ndp-leader-david-eby-9.7349059","Eby called the election two years ahead of schedule, citing the trade conflict with the United States. The CBC reported that opponents called the move opportunist, and that health minister Ravi Kahlon and former emergency management minister Kelly Greene would not run again.",{"date":2125,"publisher":2955,"title":2956,"url":2957,"summary":2958},"Peace Arch News (Black Press)","Eby focuses on U.S. health worker recruitment at Surrey border stop","https:\u002F\u002Farrowlakesnews.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F23\u002Feby-focuses-on-u-s-health-worker-recruitment-at-surrey-border-stop\u002F","At the Peace Arch border crossing, Eby promised to triple the recruitment of U.S. health workers with a $15 million campaign, aiming for more than 2,400 recruits.",{"date":2960,"publisher":2961,"title":2962,"url":2963,"summary":2964},"2026-09-25","Maple Ridge News (Black Press)","Eby promises increase to B.C.’s speculation tax, create new “Unsold Condo Tax”","https:\u002F\u002Fmapleridgenews.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F25\u002Feby-promises-increase-to-b-c-s-speculation-tax-create-new-unsold-condo-tax\u002F","Eby promised a new tax on finished condos left unsold for more than a year and a higher speculation and vacancy tax. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson said new taxes on housing end up in the price families pay.",{"date":75,"publisher":2966,"title":2967,"url":2968,"summary":2969},"The Canadian Press","Party leaders make economic, budget promises in Week 2 of B.C. election campaign","https:\u002F\u002Fenergeticcity.ca\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F28\u002Fb-c-election-campaigns-enter-second-week-with-candidate-policy-announcements\u002F","In Prince Rupert, Eby promised to double critical mineral exports within five years and said growth and an end to wasteful spending would bring down the deficit. An economist from the Business Council of B.C. said provincial spending has been out of control since 2021.",{"date":75,"publisher":2971,"title":2972,"url":2973,"summary":2974},"Abbotsford News (Black Press)","Kropp, Alexis, Jhaj and Monds named Abbotsford-Mission candidates","https:\u002F\u002Fabbynews.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F28\u002Fgasper-alexis-jhaj-and-monds-to-seek-abbotsford-mission-seat\u002F","Former NDP MLA Pam Alexis will run in Abbotsford-Mission in the general election. The by-election she had been running in, set for September 26, was cancelled on September 22 when the general election was called.",{"date":306,"publisher":2966,"title":2976,"url":2977,"summary":2978},"LNG Canada to go ahead with Phase 2 in Kitimat, B.C.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bnnbloomberg.ca\u002Fbusiness\u002Fcompany-news\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F29\u002Flng-canada-to-go-ahead-with-phase-2-expansion-project-in-kitimat-bc\u002F","LNG Canada announced its final decision to build Phase 2 in Kitimat, doubling capacity to 28 million tonnes a year. The BC NDP claimed a share of the credit in its own release the same day.",[2980,2981],"CBC News, The Canadian Press and Black Press coverage of the campaign from September 22 to September 30, 2026","A web search for the party and its leader with the 2026 election",[2983],"Global News and CTV News pages returned no readable article text to a direct request, and the Times Colonist refused the request, so their coverage is not listed.",[2985,2986,2987,2988],"The BC NDP won 47 of the 93 seats in the 2024 election, with 44.87% of the valid votes, according to the Elections BC statement of votes.","It won the 2024 election with 47 seats and 44.87% of the valid votes. The CBC reported that its majority depended on one seat, confirmed by a recount in Surrey-Guildford.","David Eby is the party’s leader and the premier. He called the election on September 22, 2026, two years ahead of schedule. He said the province needed a government able to meet the “existential moment” of the trade conflict with the United States.","The party describes its campaign as a plan to reduce dependence on the U.S. economy, lower costs and recruit more health workers. It said it would release the details during the campaign.",{"accent":2990,"onAccent":2231,"tint":2991,"ink":2233},"#B45309","#f8eee6",[2993,3028,3058,3071,3082,3134,3141,3153,3166,3173,3193],{"issue":181,"headline":2994,"summary":2995,"paragraphs":2996,"proposals":3000,"questions":3016,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3021,"gaps":3025},"A tax on unsold condos and a higher tax on empty homes","The BC NDP would create an Unsold Condo Tax on finished condos left unsold for more than a year, and raise the speculation and vacancy tax by one percentage point.",[2997,2998,2999],"The BC NDP announced its housing promises for this campaign in Burnaby on September 25, 2026. Both promises change taxes on homes that stand empty.","The party says its speculation and vacancy tax, a yearly tax on homes left empty, has already turned 20,000 empty units into homes. That is the party’s own figure, and voche.me has not checked it.","The party’s “Results for You” page lists housing actions it says it took in government, such as rules that allow townhouses, duplexes and triplexes, and limits on short-term rentals. The page carries no date, and some of its figures refer to 2024.",[3001,3010],{"title":3002,"detail":3003,"cost":3004,"authority":3005,"cites":3006},"A new Unsold Condo Tax","Developers who leave a finished condo unsold for more than one year would pay a tax that starts at 2% and rises by 1% for each further year. The party says this could bring up to 5,000 condos onto the market.","The party has not published how much the tax would raise.","A provincial tax. The legislature would have to pass it.",[3007,3008,3009],"rel-condos","news-maple-condo","news-nnw-condo",{"title":3011,"detail":3012,"cost":3013,"authority":3014,"cites":3015},"A higher speculation and vacancy tax","The tax would rise by one percentage point: from 1% to 2% for owners in Canada and from 4% to 5% for foreign owners. The party says any extra money would go to building affordable homes.","The party has not published how much the change would raise.","A provincial tax. The legislature sets the rates.",[3007,3009],[3017],{"question":3018,"answer":3019,"cites":3020},"What is the Unsold Condo Tax?","It is a tax the BC NDP says it would create for finished condos that a developer has not sold after one year. The rate would start at 2% in the second year and rise by 1% each year after that. The Black Press report says the rate would apply to the condo’s assessed value.",[3007,3008],[3022,3023,3024],"The BC NDP media centre, every release from the election call on September 22, 2026 to September 30, 2026","The BC NDP “Results for You” page","Independent reports of the September 25 announcement by Black Press and The Canadian Press",[3026,3027],"The party has not published how much money either tax change would raise.","No new target for the number of homes to be built was found in the 2026 campaign releases.",{"issue":195,"headline":3029,"summary":3030,"paragraphs":3031,"proposals":3034,"questions":3052,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3053,"gaps":3055},"Triple the recruitment of U.S. health workers","The BC NDP would triple its campaign to recruit health workers from the United States, with $15 million reported as the cost, and offer loan forgiveness and moving help to Canadian health workers who come home.",[3032,3033],"The BC NDP’s main health care promise in this campaign is to hire more health workers from the United States. David Eby announced it at the Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey on September 23, 2026.","The party says more than 800 doctors, nurses and other health workers from the United States have already accepted jobs in British Columbia. It also says a million more people have been connected to a family doctor since 2018. These are the party’s own figures.",[3035,3043,3048],{"title":3036,"detail":3037,"cost":3038,"authority":3039,"cites":3040},"Triple the recruitment of health workers from the United States","The campaign to recruit U.S. health workers would become three times larger. Black Press reported that Eby said it would cost $15 million and aim to raise the number of recruits from 800 to more than 2,400. The party says it would reach into states with laws that restrict reproductive health care.","$15 million, as reported by Black Press","A provincial health program.",[3041,3042],"rel-health","news-arrow-health",{"title":3044,"detail":3045,"cost":3046,"cites":3047},"Bring Canadian health workers home from the United States","Canadian health workers who live and work in the United States would be offered help to return, including loan forgiveness and help with moving costs. Recruiters would focus on cancer care, emergency departments and rural communities.","Not published",[3041,3042],{"title":3049,"detail":3050,"cost":3046,"cites":3051},"Free help with moving through Health Match BC","Health Match BC would offer a free relocation process planned around each worker.",[3041],[],[3022,3023,3054],"The Black Press report of the September 23 announcement",[3056,3057],"The party has not published the cost of the loan forgiveness or the moving help.","No date is given for reaching 2,400 recruits.",{"issue":167,"headline":3059,"summary":3060,"paragraphs":3061,"proposals":3065,"questions":3066,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3067,"gaps":3069},"Past measures, and no new cost figure yet","The BC NDP says it will keep costs down for families during the trade conflict, and points to past measures on car insurance, health premiums and bridge tolls. No new measure with a dollar figure was published by September 30, 2026.",[3062,3063,3064],"At the start of the campaign the BC NDP said it would support workers and businesses hurt by U.S. tariffs and keep costs down for families. As of September 30, 2026 it had not published a new cost-of-living measure with a dollar figure.","The party says a typical working family with an income of $100,000 pays $3,000 less in provincial tax than under the BC Liberal government. This is the party’s own claim, and voche.me has not checked it.","Its “Results for You” page lists past measures the party says it took, such as cutting ICBC car insurance rates, ending Medical Services Plan premiums and removing bridge tolls. The page carries no date.",[],[],[3022,3023,3068],"The BC NDP home page",[3070],"No new cost-of-living measure with a cost or a date was found in the party’s releases up to September 30, 2026.",{"issue":211,"headline":3072,"summary":3073,"paragraphs":3074,"proposals":3077,"questions":3078,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3079,"gaps":3080},"No new public safety promise yet","The BC NDP had not announced a public safety promise by September 30, 2026. Its website describes past actions on bail, repeat offenders and Indigenous Justice Centres.",[3075,3076],"The BC NDP had not announced a public safety promise in this campaign by September 30, 2026.","Its “Results for You” page describes what the party says it has done: stricter bail rules, which it says it pushed the federal government to adopt, teams that monitor people who repeatedly commit violent crimes, and more Indigenous Justice Centres. These are the party’s own descriptions. The page carries no date.",[],[],[3022,3023],[3081],"No new public safety commitment was found in the party’s releases up to September 30, 2026.",{"issue":174,"headline":3083,"summary":3084,"paragraphs":3085,"proposals":3088,"questions":3124,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3129,"gaps":3131},"Double mineral exports and buy B.C. and Canadian materials","The BC NDP would double critical mineral exports within five years, expand the Port of Prince Rupert, and require public projects to use B.C. and Canadian materials where a local supplier can deliver on budget and on time.",[3086,3087],"Most of the BC NDP’s campaign promises so far are about trade with the United States and new resource projects. The party says the goal is an economy that depends less on the United States.","On September 29, 2026 the party said it had “secured” the final decision to build Phase 2 of LNG Canada in Kitimat. The decision was announced by the companies that own LNG Canada, and the federal government welcomed it. The party’s description of its own role is its claim.",[3089,3097,3103,3108,3114,3119],{"title":3090,"detail":3091,"authority":3092,"deadline":3093,"cites":3094},"Double critical mineral exports within five years","British Columbia would double its production and export of critical minerals within five years. The party would run environmental reviews and permits at the same time, which it says would cut approval times by more than 60%, and set fixed time limits for exploration permits.","Mine permits and environmental reviews are provincial.","Within five years",[3095,3096],"rel-minerals","news-energetic-week2",{"title":3098,"detail":3099,"authority":3100,"cites":3101},"Build the North Coast Transmission Line with Canadian steel","BC Hydro would be told to build 70% of the towers in the first phase and 100% of the towers in the second phase with Canadian steel.","The party says BC Hydro would be directed to do this.",[3102,3095],"rel-buybc",{"title":3104,"detail":3105,"authority":3106,"cites":3107},"“Built in B.C. and Canada” buying rules","Ministries, provincial agencies and health authorities would have to use goods and materials made in British Columbia or Canada on public projects when a supplier here can deliver on budget and on time. Goods made in the United States would count against the minimum.","Provincial rules for provincial projects. Cities would be encouraged to follow.",[3102],{"title":3109,"detail":3110,"authority":3111,"deadline":3112,"cites":3113},"Expand the Port of Prince Rupert","The party says it would work with the Prince Rupert Port Authority, its partners and the federal government to expand the port. The Canadian Press reported that Eby said the aim is to make it the second-largest port of its kind in Canada by 2030.","The party says it would work with the port authority and the federal government, so the Province cannot do this alone.","2030",[3095,3096],{"title":3115,"detail":3116,"cost":3117,"cites":3118},"$5 million for cruise tourism in Prince Rupert","A re-elected BC NDP government would give $5 million to the Prince Rupert Port Authority to expand cruise ship operations.","$5 million",[3095],{"title":3120,"detail":3121,"cites":3122},"Keep U.S. alcohol off store shelves","U.S. alcohol would stay off the shelves until there is a fair trade deal for forest workers.",[3123],"rel-launch",[3125],{"question":3126,"answer":3127,"cites":3128},"What are the “Built in B.C. and Canada” rules?","They are buying rules the BC NDP says it would set for public projects. Ministries, provincial agencies and health authorities would have to use wood, steel, aluminum and cement made in British Columbia or Canada when a local supplier can deliver on budget and on time.",[3102],[3022,3130],"The Canadian Press report of September 28, 2026",[3132,3133],"The party has not published the cost of the mining and permit changes.","The party gave no cost for the buying rules.",{"issue":203,"paragraphs":3135,"proposals":3136,"questions":3137,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3138,"gaps":3139},[],[],[],[3022,3023],[3140],"No school, teacher or tuition commitment was found in the party’s releases up to September 30, 2026.",{"issue":219,"headline":3142,"summary":3143,"paragraphs":3144,"proposals":3148,"questions":3149,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3150,"gaps":3151},"No new climate promise yet","The BC NDP had not announced a climate promise by September 30, 2026. It says part of the LNG Canada Phase 2 revenue will go to climate programs.",[3145,3146,3147],"The BC NDP had not announced a climate promise in this campaign by September 30, 2026.","In its release on LNG Canada Phase 2, the party said part of the Province’s revenue from the project will go to climate action programs, and that the project’s emissions are expected to be lower than those of other LNG plants. These are the party’s claims.","Its “Results for You” page says the party has put $1.1 billion into communities preparing for climate impacts. The page carries no date.",[],[],[3022,3023],[3152],"No emissions target or new climate program was found in the party’s releases up to September 30, 2026.",{"issue":152,"headline":3154,"summary":3155,"paragraphs":3156,"proposals":3160,"questions":3161,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3162,"gaps":3164},"No campaign position on DRIPA yet","The BC NDP had not published a campaign position on the Indigenous rights law by September 30, 2026. In April 2026 its government dropped a plan to bring in a bill that session to pause parts of the law.",[3157,3158,3159],"The BC NDP had not published a campaign position on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), the provincial law on Indigenous rights, by September 30, 2026.","In April 2026 the government dropped its plan to bring in a bill that session to pause parts of DRIPA. The Canadian Press reported that it now wants to work out a joint approach with First Nations. See the record section.","The party’s mining plan says exploration permits would come with “meaningful First Nations engagement”. On September 30, 2026 Eby issued a statement for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation that called the appearance of a masked group on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc lands “a cowardly act of hate”.",[],[],[3022,3163],"Independent reports on DRIPA from April 2026",[3165],"No campaign commitment on DRIPA, treaties or title agreements was found in the party’s releases up to September 30, 2026.",{"issue":876,"paragraphs":3167,"proposals":3168,"questions":3169,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3170,"gaps":3171},[],[],[],[3022,3023],[3172],"No highway, transit or ferry commitment was found in the party’s releases up to September 30, 2026.",{"issue":131,"headline":3174,"summary":3175,"paragraphs":3176,"proposals":3180,"questions":3187,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3188,"gaps":3189},"Grow the economy to bring the deficit down","Eby said growing the economy would help reduce the deficit and that wasteful spending must end. No date for a balanced budget was given.",[3177,3178,3179],"The Canadian Press reported on September 28, 2026 that Eby said growing the economy would help reduce the deficit, which it reported as $13.8 billion. Eby also said: “We’ve got to end wasteful spending.”","The party says it has asked the top 2% of earners, speculators and owners of homes worth more than $3 million to pay more so that others pay less. This is how the party describes its tax record.","The two housing tax changes are listed under housing.",[3181],{"title":3182,"detail":3183,"cost":3184,"deadline":3185,"cites":3186},"Lower the deficit by growing the economy","Eby said growing the economy would help reduce the deficit and that wasteful spending must end, according to The Canadian Press.","No figures published","No date for a balanced budget was given",[3096],[],[3022,3130],[3190,3191,3192],"The party has not published a date for a balanced budget.","No costed platform had been published by September 30, 2026.","The party has not said which spending it counts as wasteful.",{"issue":143,"paragraphs":3194,"proposals":3195,"questions":3196,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3197,"gaps":3198},[],[],[],[3022,3023],[3199],"No commitment on legislature rules, ethics, transparency or elections was found in the party’s releases up to September 30, 2026.",[3201,3205,3209,3214,3218],{"question":3202,"answer":3203,"cites":3204},"Who leads the BC NDP?","David Eby, according to Elections BC’s register of parties as of September 30, 2026. He is also the premier.",[2147,2148],{"question":3206,"answer":3207,"cites":3208},"Why was this election called early?","Eby said the province needed a government able to answer the trade conflict with the United States. The CBC reported that opponents called the timing opportunist.",[2910],{"question":3210,"answer":3211,"cites":3212},"Has the BC NDP published a full platform?","Not by September 30, 2026. The party said it would release its plan during the campaign, and so far it has announced promises one at a time in news releases.",[3123,3213],"ndp-releases",{"question":3215,"answer":3216,"cites":3217},"How did the BC NDP do in 2024?","It won 47 of 93 seats with 44.87% of the valid votes. 47 is the smallest number of seats that makes a majority in a legislature of 93.",[2900,2148],{"question":3219,"answer":3220,"cites":3221},"How much public money does the party receive?","Elections BC paid the BC NDP $1,785,254.31 in annual allowances in 2026, in two payments, at $1.89 for each vote it won in 2024.",[2934,2900],{"entries":3223,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3255,"gaps":3259},[3224,3230,3236,3242,3248],{"date":3225,"title":3226,"body":3227,"cites":3228},"2026-02-17","Budget 2026 forecasts a $13.3 billion deficit","Finance Minister Brenda Bailey’s budget forecast a $13.3 billion deficit for 2026-27. It raised the lowest income tax rate from 5% to 5.6%, raised the speculation and vacancy tax from 3% to 4%, and planned 15,000 fewer public sector jobs over three years, the CBC reported.",[3229],"cbc-budget2026",{"date":3231,"title":3232,"body":3233,"cites":3234},"2026-04-13","The DRIPA bill will not decide whether the government stays in power","Mike Farnworth, the minister who manages government business in the legislature, said a bill to pause parts of DRIPA would not come that week. He said that when it came, its defeat would not bring down the government. The Tyee reported that Vancouver-Strathcona MLA Joan Phillip had said she would not support pausing parts of the law, and that Farnworth said the government would not have enough votes on its own.",[3235],"tyee-dripa",{"date":3237,"title":3238,"body":3239,"cites":3240},"2026-04-19","Government says it will not bring in DRIPA legislation this session","The premier’s office confirmed the government would not introduce legislation on DRIPA during that session. The Canadian Press reported a draft government document that described a joint approach with First Nations.",[3241],"cp24-dripa-joint",{"date":3243,"title":3244,"body":3245,"cites":3246},"2026-08-10","Final 2025-26 deficit is $7.7 billion","The government’s financial update put the deficit for the year ending in March 2026 at $7.7 billion, $3.3 billion below forecast. The Canadian Press reported the government gave higher revenue and lower spending on building projects as the reasons.",[3247],"nobs-deficit",{"date":306,"title":3249,"body":3250,"cites":3251},"LNG Canada decides to build Phase 2","The companies that own LNG Canada announced their final decision to build Phase 2 in Kitimat, which would double its capacity to 28 million tonnes a year. The federal government welcomed it. The BC NDP says its work with the federal government and the company helped secure the decision.",[3252,3253,3254],"bnn-lng","pm-lng","rel-lng",[3256,3257,3258],"Independent reporting in 2026 on the government’s budget, the Indigenous rights law and major projects","The Prime Minister’s release on LNG Canada Phase 2","The BC NDP media centre",[3260,3261],"The recorded votes of named NDP members on the 2026 budget and other bills have not been checked in the legislature’s vote index.","The July 2026 agreement between Eby and Prime Minister Carney that the party describes has not been checked against a government source.","bc-ndp",[3264,3265,3268,3270,3272,3275,3277,3281,3285,3288,3291,3294,3296,3299,3302,3305,3308,3313,3316,3319,3323,3326,3327,3329,3333,3335,3336,3340,3342,3343,3346,3351,3355,3359,3361,3365,3370],{"id":2147,"label":2631,"url":2632,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":3266,"label":3267,"url":36,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"ebc-roster","Candidate list for the October 24, 2026 general election",{"id":3269,"label":2636,"url":2637,"publisher":487,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"leg-standings",{"id":2900,"label":3271,"url":44,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Statement of Votes, 2024 Provincial General Election",{"id":2890,"label":3273,"url":3274,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Statement of Votes, 2020 Provincial General Election","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Frpt\u002Fstatement-of-votes-2020-provincial-general-election.pdf",{"id":2934,"label":3276,"url":2647,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Annual allowances to political parties",{"id":3278,"label":3279,"url":3280,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"ebc-contrib-rules","Making a political contribution","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fprovincial-elections\u002Fprovincial-financing\u002Fmaking-a-political-contribution\u002F",{"id":3282,"label":3283,"url":3284,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"ebc-fin-reporting","Financial reporting and political contributions","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fcandidates-parties\u002Ffinancial-reporting-and-political-contributions\u002F",{"id":3286,"label":3287,"url":2929,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"ebc-pcs","Financial Reports and Political Contributions System, provincial search",{"id":3289,"label":3290,"url":271,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"ndp-home","BC NDP home page",{"id":3213,"label":3292,"url":3293,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"BC NDP media 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rules","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Freleases\u002Feby-pledges-new-built-bc-and-canada-buying-rules",{"id":3007,"label":3306,"url":3307,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":2960,"checkedAt":25},"Eby to turn more empty condos into homes people can afford","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Freleases\u002Feby-turn-more-empty-condos-homes-people-can-afford",{"id":3309,"label":3310,"url":3311,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":3312,"checkedAt":25},"rel-taxclaim","Doerkson’s first campaign commitment confirms healthcare to “take the brunt” of their cuts","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Freleases\u002Fdoerksons-first-campaign-commitment-confirms-healthcare-take-brunt-their-cuts","2026-09-27",{"id":3095,"label":3314,"url":3315,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":75,"checkedAt":25},"Eby to double critical mineral exports, expand Port of Prince Rupert","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Freleases\u002Feby-double-critical-mineral-exports-expand-port-prince-rupert",{"id":3254,"label":3317,"url":3318,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":306,"checkedAt":25},"David Eby secures largest private sector investment in Canadian history","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Freleases\u002Fdavid-eby-secures-largest-private-sector-investment-canadian-history",{"id":3320,"label":3321,"url":3322,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":25,"checkedAt":25},"rel-trc","Statement from BC NDP leader David Eby marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Freleases\u002Fstatement-bc-ndp-leader-david-eby-marking-national-day-truth-and-reconciliation-and-orange",{"id":2905,"label":3324,"url":3325,"publisher":270,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":564,"checkedAt":25},"David Eby and BC NDP focused on working together and fighting for people at 2025 Convention","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bcndp.ca\u002Freleases\u002Fdavid-eby-and-bc-ndp-focused-working-together-and-fighting-people-2025-convention",{"id":2910,"label":2951,"url":2952,"publisher":2187,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":2196,"checkedAt":25},{"id":2148,"label":3328,"url":2199,"publisher":2197,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":2196,"checkedAt":25},"Meet the party leaders running in B.C.’s provincial election",{"id":2895,"label":3330,"url":3331,"publisher":2187,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":3332,"checkedAt":25},"Premier designate David Eby says B.C. NDP leadership acclamation “not how any of us expected this to end”","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fdavid-eby-ndp-leadership-campaign-elections-bc-1.6623522","2022-10-20",{"id":3042,"label":2956,"url":2957,"publisher":3334,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":2125,"checkedAt":25},"Peace Arch News (Black Press), republished by Arrow Lakes News",{"id":3008,"label":2962,"url":2963,"publisher":2961,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":2960,"checkedAt":25},{"id":3009,"label":3337,"url":3338,"publisher":3339,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":2960,"checkedAt":25},"B.C.’s Eby says NDP would tax new, unsold condos, raise speculation, vacancy fees","https:\u002F\u002Fnationalnewswatch.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F25\u002Fb-c-s-eby-says-ndp-would-tax-new-unsold-condos-raise-speculation-vacancy-fees","The Canadian Press, via National Newswatch",{"id":3096,"label":2967,"url":2968,"publisher":3341,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":75,"checkedAt":25},"The Canadian Press, via Energeticcity",{"id":2911,"label":2972,"url":2973,"publisher":2971,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":75,"checkedAt":25},{"id":3229,"label":3344,"url":3345,"publisher":2187,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":3225,"checkedAt":25},"B.C. budget includes tax increases, 15K public job cuts, projected $13B deficit","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fb-c-budget-2026-9.7094451",{"id":3235,"label":3347,"url":3348,"publisher":3349,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":3350,"checkedAt":25},"BC Backs Off on DRIPA Amendments. For Now","https:\u002F\u002Fthetyee.ca\u002FNews\u002F2026\u002F04\u002F14\u002FBC-Backs-Off-DRIPA-Amendments\u002F","The Tyee","2026-04-14",{"id":3241,"label":3352,"url":3353,"publisher":3354,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":3237,"checkedAt":25},"First Nations say Eby backs down again, now seeks joint path on B.C. Indigenous law","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cp24.com\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002F2026\u002F04\u002F20\u002Ffirst-nations-say-eby-backs-down-again-on-bc-indigenous-law\u002F","The Canadian Press, via CP24",{"id":3247,"label":3356,"url":3357,"publisher":3358,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":3243,"checkedAt":25},"The provincial deficit dropped by $3.3 billion to $7.7 billion in 2025\u002F26: Bailey","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nationalobserver.com\u002F2026\u002F08\u002F10\u002Fnews\u002Fprovincial-deficit-dropped-33-billion-77-billion-202526-bailey","The Canadian Press, via Canada’s National Observer",{"id":3252,"label":2976,"url":2977,"publisher":3360,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":306,"checkedAt":25},"The Canadian Press, via BNN Bloomberg",{"id":3253,"label":3362,"url":3363,"publisher":3364,"kind":1942,"publishedAt":306,"checkedAt":25},"Prime Minister Carney welcomes LNG Canada Phase 2","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pm.gc.ca\u002Fen\u002Fnews\u002Fnews-releases\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F29\u002Fprime-minister-carney-welcomes-lng-canada-phase-2-second-largest","Prime Minister of Canada",{"id":2856,"label":3366,"url":3367,"publisher":3368,"kind":3369,"checkedAt":25},"New Democratic Party, Encyclopedia of British Columbia","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.knowbc.com\u002Fknowbc\u002FBooks\u002FEncyclopedia-of-BC\u002FN\u002FNew-Democratic-Party","KnowBC (Encyclopedia of British Columbia, Harbour Publishing)","academic",{"id":2857,"label":3371,"url":3372,"publisher":3349,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":3373,"checkedAt":25},"The New Democratic Party: A Look Back","https:\u002F\u002Fthetyee.ca\u002FElection\u002FBattleground\u002F2005\u002F05\u002F11\u002FNDPLookback\u002Fprint.html","2005-05-11","elections\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-ndp","The BC NDP won 47 of the 93 seats in the 2024 election and is led by Premier David Eby, who called this early election. Its campaign promises so far cover recruiting U.S. health workers, a tax on unsold condos, mineral exports and buying rules for public projects.",{"src":3377,"alt":2926,"width":3378,"height":3379,"sourceUrl":3380,"checkedAt":25},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fbc-ndp-wordmark.webp",480,116,"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FFile:British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party_logo_2017.svg","xg9AiK-HU3eqMni0JpeASxZRMAnOLJL3lExzNfouWEc",{"id":3383,"aliases":3384,"checkedAt":25,"declaredColour":11,"extension":1771,"founded":3385,"headline":3391,"history":3392,"leadership":3424,"logo":3441,"meta":3446,"money":3447,"name":3460,"news":3461,"overview":3476,"palette":3482,"platform":3485,"questions":3627,"record":3653,"registeredName":3460,"rosterLabel":3660,"slug":3661,"sources":3662,"stem":3709,"summary":3710,"website":11,"wordmark":3711,"__hash__":3713},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fcanwest-party.json",[],{"year":3386,"note":3387,"cites":3388},2026,"Registration with Elections BC took effect on 4 February 2026. Sing Tao Daily reported that the founders announced the party on 29 March 2026.",[3389,2147,3390],"bc-gazette-registration","singtao-2026-04-01","CanWest Party: a new party based in Richmond",{"entries":3393,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3415,"gaps":3421},[3394,3399,3405,3410],{"date":3395,"title":3396,"body":3397,"cites":3398},"2026-02-04","Registered with Elections BC","Registration of CanWest Party as a provincial political party took effect on 4 February 2026. The Chief Electoral Officer published the notice in the British Columbia Gazette on 12 February 2026.",[3389],{"date":3400,"title":3401,"body":3402,"cites":3403},"2026-03-29","Founders announce the party","Wei Ping Chen and three other people announced the party at a news conference. The party posted a statement from the event in Chinese, with a five-point platform on the economy, public order and drugs, medical waits, education and the environment.",[3390,3404],"site-event",{"date":630,"title":3406,"body":3407,"cites":3408},"No CanWest candidates in the Richmond city election","The City of Richmond declared its candidates for the 17 October 2026 local election. None of the candidates for mayor, council or school trustee runs for CanWest Party, and Wei Ping Chen is absent from the list of candidates for mayor. In March the founders had said Chen would run for mayor.",[3409,3390],"richmond-declaration",{"date":25,"title":3411,"body":3412,"cites":3413},"Lawrence Chen on the provincial candidate list","Elections BC's candidate list for the 2026 provincial general election, printed on 30 September 2026, names Lawrence Chen as the CanWest Party candidate in Richmond Centre.",[3414],"candidate-list",[3416,3417,3418,3419,3420],"British Columbia Gazette notice of registration","Elections BC register of political parties and its list of party names used in the last 10 years","Sing Tao Daily report of 1 April 2026","City of Richmond declaration of candidates, 11 September 2026","Elections BC 2026 provincial candidate list",[3422,3423],"The party registered in 2026, so it has no results from earlier provincial elections.","Sing Tao Daily reported that Wei Ping Chen founded another party in 2007. voche.me has not checked that party's records.",[3425,3428,3433,3437],{"role":2144,"name":3426,"cites":3427},"Wei Ping Chen",[2147,3404],{"role":3429,"name":3430,"cites":3431},"President, as the party's contact page lists it","Lawrence Chen",[3432],"site-contact",{"role":3434,"name":3435,"cites":3436},"Vice president, as the party's website lists it","Ting Gang Chen",[3432,3404],{"role":3438,"name":3439,"cites":3440},"Secretary general, as the party's news conference page lists it","Peter Kong",[3404],{"src":3442,"alt":3443,"sourceUrl":3444,"checkedAt":3445},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fcanwest-party.webp","CanWest Party logo","https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20260930235214\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fwww.canada2.net\u002Fimage\u002Fparty-logo%20copy.jpg","2026-10-05",{},{"searchUrl":3448,"filings":3449,"notes":3450,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3454,"gaps":3458},"https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002F",[],[3451,3452,3453],"Elections BC keeps a public search of the financial reports that provincial parties file. On 30 September 2026 a search for the names CanWest and CWP returned no reports, and the search form's list of parties had no entry for CanWest Party.","Elections BC says only parties eligible for an annual allowance must file interim financial reports during the year.","The party's own pages ask for a membership fee of $20 a year or $500 for life, and for donations by e-transfer. Its donation page states that the contribution limit for one person is $1,513.29. That figure is the party's statement, and voche.me has not checked it against Elections BC.",[3455,3456,3457],"Elections BC Financial Reports and Political Contributions System, provincial financial reports, searched for CanWest and for CWP on 2026-09-30","Elections BC provincial electoral finance questions and answers, read 2026-09-30","The party's membership and donation pages, read 2026-09-30",[3459],"No financial report from CanWest Party was on the public search on 30 September 2026. voche.me has not checked when the party's first annual report is due.","CanWest Party",{"entries":3462,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3468,"gaps":3473},[3463],{"date":820,"publisher":3464,"title":3465,"url":3466,"summary":3467},"Sing Tao Daily (Canada)","列治文華人宣布成立新政黨 能發揮多少作用？","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.singtao.ca\u002F7463172\u002F2026-04-01\u002Fnews-%E5%88%97%E6%B2%BB%E6%96%87%E8%8F%AF%E4%BA%BA%E5%AE%A3%E5%B8%83%E6%88%90%E7%AB%8B%E6%96%B0%E6%94%BF%E9%BB%A8++%E8%83%BD%E7%99%BC%E6%8F%AE%E5%A4%9A%E5%B0%91%E4%BD%9C%E7%94%A8%EF%BC%9F\u002F","Sing Tao Daily reported that Wei Ping Chen (陳衛平), Yang Nan, Shi Jun and Chen Tinggang announced CanWest Party on the evening of Sunday 29 March. They named a weak economy, drugs, poor public safety, rising living costs and longer waits for medical care as their reasons. Chen said he would run for mayor of Richmond, with Yang and Shi running for council. Two community commentators quoted in the report said a new party needs full policy plans and regular work at council meetings before voters will listen to it.",[3469,3470,3471,3472],"Web searches in English and Chinese for \"CanWest Party\", the leader's name and Richmond, 2026-09-30","Sing Tao Daily report of 1 April 2026, read in full","Richmond News BC Votes 2026 page","cacnews.ca report on the founding of the party",[3474,3475],"Richmond News and cacnews.ca refused direct reads on 30 September 2026, so voche.me could not check their pages.","voche.me found no English-language reporting about the party.",[3477,3478,3479,3480,3481],"CanWest Party is a provincial political party registered with Elections BC. Its registration took effect on 4 February 2026. Its name on the ballot is CWP, and Elections BC's register names Wei Ping Chen as its leader.","Elections BC's candidate list for the 2026 provincial general election names Lawrence Chen as the CanWest Party candidate in Richmond Centre. Nominations stay open until 1 p.m. on 3 October 2026.","The party says its platform is to develop the economy, promote community safety, build good relations between neighbours, ensure equality among all races, keep taxes low and create a better environment. Its website states these goals in one or two sentences each, with no costs, dates or named laws.","Sing Tao Daily reported that Wei Ping Chen and three other people announced the party on Sunday 29 March 2026, and that the party said its first goal was the Richmond city election in October 2026. The City of Richmond's list of local candidates, declared on 11 September 2026, has no candidate running for CanWest Party.","The website that carries the party's name is www.canada2.net. It opens only without the secure \"https\" prefix, so voche.me links to copies saved in the Internet Archive on 30 September 2026. On that date the home page still said the next provincial election would be in autumn 2028. Two of its pages carry the heading \"People's Party of British Columbia\". Its contact page names Lawrence Chen as president, and its news conference page names Wei Ping Chen as president. The site's mailing address is the same one Elections BC's register gives for the party.",{"accent":3483,"onAccent":2231,"tint":3484,"ink":2233},"#7E22CE","#f2e9fa",[3486,3497,3513,3520,3541,3560,3574,3593,3600,3607,3619],{"issue":181,"paragraphs":3487,"proposals":3488,"questions":3489,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3490,"gaps":3495},[],[],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],"The party website www.canada2.net, read on 2026-09-30: home, mission, news conference, membership, donation and contact pages, and a candidate profile page (2026.htm)","www.canwestparty.ca, the address printed on the contact page, which did not answer on 2026-09-30","Sing Tao Daily report of 1 April 2026 on the founding of the party","Web searches in English and Chinese for the party name and its leader, 2026-09-30",[3496],"The party website holds no statement on housing, rent or zoning.",{"issue":195,"headline":3498,"summary":3499,"paragraphs":3500,"proposals":3503,"questions":3510,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3511,"gaps":3512},"Shorter waits for medical care","CanWest Party says it would improve medical services and shorten the time patients wait.",[3501,3502],"CanWest Party lists better medical services as the third point of the platform in its 29 March 2026 news conference statement. The statement says patients wait too long, and that the party would work to shorten those waits. voche.me translated the news conference statement from Chinese.","Sing Tao Daily reported that the founders named longer and longer waits for medical care as one of the problems that led them to start the party.",[3504],{"title":3505,"detail":3506,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3509},"Improve medical services and shorten waits","CanWest Party says it would improve medical services and shorten the long time patients now wait.","The party does not say which government body would act, or which law, program or budget it would use.","The party gives no cost or date.",[3404],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[],{"issue":167,"paragraphs":3514,"proposals":3515,"questions":3516,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3517,"gaps":3518},[],[],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[3519],"Sing Tao Daily reported on 1 April 2026 that the founders named rising living costs as one reason for starting the party. The party website holds no proposal on prices, rent, energy rates or car insurance.",{"issue":211,"headline":3521,"summary":3522,"paragraphs":3523,"proposals":3527,"questions":3538,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3539,"gaps":3540},"Stronger public security and no drugs in communities","CanWest Party says it would strengthen public security and opposes drugs coming into communities.",[3524,3525,3526],"CanWest Party lists community safety on its home page, and its mission page puts \"No drugs\" first in its platform. The mission page says the party would strengthen public security so that residents can live in a safe city.","The party's 29 March 2026 news conference statement lists stronger public order as the second point of its platform, and says the party opposes drugs coming into communities. voche.me translated the news conference statement from Chinese.","Sing Tao Daily reported that the founders named drug problems and poor public safety among the reasons they started the party. The party names no measure, cost or date for this goal.",[3528,3534],{"title":3529,"detail":3530,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3531},"Strengthen public security","CanWest Party says it would strengthen public security so that residents can live in a safe city.",[3532,3533],"site-mission","site-home",{"title":3535,"detail":3536,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3537},"Keep drugs out of communities","CanWest Party lists \"No drugs\" in its platform and says it opposes drugs coming into communities.",[3532,3404],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[],{"issue":174,"headline":3542,"summary":3543,"paragraphs":3544,"proposals":3548,"questions":3557,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3558,"gaps":3559},"Help local business invest and hire","CanWest Party says it would help local businesses invest and create jobs, and that economic policy should follow market demand.",[3545,3546,3547],"CanWest Party lists developing the economy first on its home page. Its mission page says the party will encourage and help local industrial and commercial businesses to invest and create more jobs in BC.","The party's 29 March 2026 news conference statement says Canada's economy is doing poorly, and that economic policy should keep up with changes in society and follow what the market needs. voche.me translated the news conference statement from Chinese.","The party names no program, tax change, cost or date for these goals.",[3549,3553],{"title":3550,"detail":3551,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3552},"Help local businesses invest and create jobs","CanWest Party says it will encourage and assist local industrial and commercial businesses to invest and create more jobs in BC.",[3532],{"title":3554,"detail":3555,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3556},"Economic policy that follows market demand","CanWest Party says economic policy should keep up with changes in society, and each policy should follow what the market needs.",[3404],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[],{"issue":203,"headline":3561,"summary":3562,"paragraphs":3563,"proposals":3566,"questions":3571,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3572,"gaps":3573},"Improve the school system and moral education","CanWest Party says it would improve the education system and moral education.",[3564,3565],"CanWest Party lists education as the fourth point of the platform in its 29 March 2026 news conference statement. The statement says the party would improve the education system and improve moral education, meaning the teaching of values and right conduct. voche.me translated the news conference statement from Chinese.","The party does not say which level of schooling it means, and names no measure, cost or date.",[3567],{"title":3568,"detail":3569,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3570},"Improve the education system and moral education","CanWest Party says it would improve the education system and improve moral education.",[3404],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[],{"issue":219,"headline":3575,"summary":3576,"paragraphs":3577,"proposals":3581,"questions":3590,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3591,"gaps":3592},"Environmental protection and a better environment","CanWest Party says it would strengthen environmental protection and make neighbourhoods more beautiful.",[3578,3579,3580],"CanWest Party lists \"create a better environment\" on its home page. Its mission page says the party would strengthen environmental protection and \"strive to create a garden-like city.\"","The fifth point of the platform in its 29 March 2026 news conference statement is to make homes and neighbourhoods more beautiful and to protect the environment. voche.me translated the news conference statement from Chinese.","The party names no measure, cost or date for these goals.",[3582,3586],{"title":3583,"detail":3584,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3585},"Strengthen environmental protection","CanWest Party says it would strengthen environmental protection and create a better environment.",[3532,3533],{"title":3587,"detail":3588,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3589},"Make neighbourhoods more beautiful","CanWest Party lists making homes and neighbourhoods more beautiful, together with protecting the environment, as the fifth point of its platform.",[3404],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[],{"issue":152,"paragraphs":3594,"proposals":3595,"questions":3596,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3597,"gaps":3598},[],[],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[3599],"The party website holds no statement on Indigenous rights, treaties or reconciliation.",{"issue":876,"paragraphs":3601,"proposals":3602,"questions":3603,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3604,"gaps":3605},[],[],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[3606],"The party website holds no statement on highways, transit or ferries.",{"issue":131,"headline":3608,"summary":3609,"paragraphs":3610,"proposals":3612,"questions":3616,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3617,"gaps":3618},"Low tax","CanWest Party lists low tax among its platform points.",[3611],"CanWest Party lists \"low tax\" among its platform points on its home page. It does not say which provincial tax it means, what rate it wants, or how it would pay for the change.",[3613],{"title":3608,"detail":3614,"authority":3507,"cost":3508,"cites":3615},"CanWest Party says it supports low tax. It names no tax, rate or effect on the provincial budget.",[3533],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[],{"issue":143,"paragraphs":3620,"proposals":3621,"questions":3622,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3623,"gaps":3624},[],[],[],[3491,3492,3493,3494],[3625,3626],"The party website holds no statement on legislature rules, ethics, openness or election rules.","The mission page says the party supports equality among all races and good relations between ethnic groups and between neighbours. These goals do not fit any of the eleven issue areas, so the overview describes them.",[3628,3632,3636,3640,3644,3648],{"question":3629,"answer":3630,"cites":3631},"Who leads CanWest Party?","Elections BC's register names Wei Ping Chen as leader. The party's news conference page names him as president, and its contact page names Lawrence Chen as president. Sing Tao Daily reported that Wei Ping Chen founded another party in 2007 and has run in provincial and city elections at least six times without winning.",[2147,3404,3432,3390],{"question":3633,"answer":3634,"cites":3635},"Who is running for CanWest Party?","Elections BC's candidate list names Lawrence Chen as the party's candidate in Richmond Centre. Nominations close at 1 p.m. on 3 October 2026, so the list can still change.",[3414],{"question":3637,"answer":3638,"cites":3639},"What does CanWest Party stand for?","The party says it would develop the economy, strengthen community safety and keep drugs out of communities, shorten medical waits, improve education, protect the environment, keep taxes low and support equality among all races. It gives no costs, dates or named laws for these goals.",[3533,3532,3404],{"question":3641,"answer":3642,"cites":3643},"When was CanWest Party founded?","Its registration with Elections BC took effect on 4 February 2026. Sing Tao Daily reported that the founders announced the party at a news conference on 29 March 2026.",[3389,3390],{"question":3645,"answer":3646,"cites":3647},"Is CanWest Party running in the Richmond city election?","In March 2026 the founders said Wei Ping Chen would run for mayor of Richmond. The City of Richmond's list of candidates, declared on 11 September 2026, has no candidate running for CanWest Party, and Chen is absent from the list for mayor.",[3390,3409],{"question":3649,"answer":3650,"cites":3651},"Where can I see CanWest Party's finances?","Search Elections BC's Financial Reports and Political Contributions System. On 30 September 2026 it held no report from CanWest Party.",[3652],"frpc-search",{"entries":3654,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3655,"gaps":3658},[],[3656,3657],"Legislature party standings for the 43rd Parliament, read 2026-09-30","Elections BC register of political parties, read 2026-09-30",[3659],"The legislature's member list, read on 30 September 2026, names no member for CanWest Party, so there are no votes or bills to record for it.","CWP","canwest-party",[3663,3664,3666,3671,3675,3676,3679,3683,3686,3689,3692,3695,3699,3703,3705],{"id":2147,"label":2631,"url":2632,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":3414,"label":3665,"url":36,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Provincial candidate list, 2026 provincial general election",{"id":3389,"label":3667,"url":3668,"publisher":3669,"kind":1942,"publishedAt":3670,"checkedAt":25},"British Columbia Gazette, notice of registration of CanWest Party","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bclaws.gov.bc.ca\u002Fcivix\u002Fdocument\u002Fid\u002Fbcgaz1\u002Fbcgaz1\u002F244336396","King's Printer for British Columbia","2026-02-12",{"id":3672,"label":3673,"url":3674,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"party-names-10-years","Political party names used in the last 10 years","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fdocs\u002Ffin\u002FPolitical-Party-Names-Used-In-Last-10-Years.pdf",{"id":2574,"label":2636,"url":2637,"publisher":487,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":3652,"label":3677,"url":3678,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Provincial financial reports search for the name CanWest","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002FFRSearchResults.aspx?PFN=CanWest&PK=0&P=(ALL)&FTK=0&FT=(ALL)&FNK=0&FN=(ALL)&EV=(ALL)&ED=(ALL)&RTK=0&RT=(ALL)",{"id":3680,"label":3681,"url":3682,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"ebc-finance-faq","Provincial electoral finance questions and answers","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fcandidates-parties\u002Felectoral-finance-faq\u002F",{"id":3533,"label":3684,"url":3685,"publisher":3460,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"CanWest Party home page (copy saved 2026-09-30)","https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20260930235214\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fwww.canada2.net\u002F",{"id":3532,"label":3687,"url":3688,"publisher":3460,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"CanWest Party mission page (copy saved 2026-09-30)","https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20260930235302\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fwww.canada2.net\u002Fmission.htm",{"id":3404,"label":3690,"url":3691,"publisher":3460,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"CanWest Party statement from its 29 March 2026 news conference, in Chinese (copy saved 2026-09-30)","https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20260930235236\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fwww.canada2.net\u002Fevent.htm",{"id":3432,"label":3693,"url":3694,"publisher":3460,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"CanWest Party contact page (copy saved 2026-09-30)","https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20260930235329\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fwww.canada2.net\u002Fcontact.htm",{"id":3696,"label":3697,"url":3698,"publisher":3460,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"site-donate","CanWest Party donation page (copy saved 2026-09-30)","https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20260930235355\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fwww.canada2.net\u002Fdonate.htm",{"id":3700,"label":3701,"url":3702,"publisher":3460,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"site-join","CanWest Party membership page (copy saved 2026-09-30)","https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20260930235421\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fwww.canada2.net\u002Fjoin.htm",{"id":3390,"label":3704,"url":3466,"publisher":3464,"kind":2050,"publishedAt":820,"checkedAt":25},"Sing Tao Daily: Richmond Chinese residents announce a new party",{"id":3409,"label":3706,"url":3707,"publisher":3708,"kind":1942,"publishedAt":630,"checkedAt":25},"City of Richmond declaration of candidates, 2026 local election","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.richmond.ca\u002F__shared\u002Fassets\u002FDeclaration_of_Candidates_-_2026_Election79709.pdf","City of Richmond","elections\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fcanwest-party","CanWest Party registered with Elections BC in February 2026, and the register names Wei Ping Chen as its leader. Lawrence Chen is on Elections BC's candidate list for the party in Richmond Centre. Its website lists short goals with no costs or dates.",{"src":3712,"alt":3443,"width":3378,"height":1260,"sourceUrl":3444,"checkedAt":3445},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fcanwest-party-wordmark.webp","eye3sHK2blVK5WWvCPt5U9Na8mSQdd82Zw4dJbrBBDU",{"id":3715,"aliases":3716,"checkedAt":25,"declaredColour":11,"extension":1771,"founded":3718,"headline":3725,"history":3726,"leadership":3793,"logo":3801,"meta":3805,"money":3806,"name":457,"news":3815,"overview":3864,"palette":3871,"platform":3874,"questions":4102,"record":4132,"registeredName":457,"rosterLabel":3717,"slug":4141,"sources":4142,"stem":4282,"summary":4283,"website":4152,"wordmark":4284,"__hash__":4288},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fcentre-bc.json",[3717],"CentreBC",{"year":3719,"note":3720,"cites":3721},2025,"Global News reported on 2025-04-04 that the party had registered with Elections BC, with Karin Kirkpatrick as leader. The party says it was founded on 2025-03-28.",[3722,3723,3724],"global-register","global-launch","rel-agm","Centre BC: leader, positions and history for the 2026 BC election",{"entries":3727,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3785,"gaps":3789},[3728,3733,3739,3745,3752,3759,3765,3773,3779],{"date":3729,"title":3730,"body":3731,"cites":3732},"2025-04-10","Launched by Karin Kirkpatrick","Karin Kirkpatrick, MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano from 2020 to 2024, launched CentreBC outside the legislature. Elections BC had approved the party earlier that month. The party says it was founded on 2025-03-28.",[3722,3723,3123,3724],{"date":3734,"title":3735,"body":3736,"cites":3737},"2026-03-19","Kirkpatrick says she will step down","In a letter to members, Kirkpatrick said she would step down as leader at the party’s first annual general meeting, and that three people had resigned from the party executive.",[3738],"rel-agm-prep",{"date":3740,"title":3741,"body":3742,"cites":3743},"2026-06-20","First annual general meeting","The party says members adopted a constitution and bylaws, acclaimed Mike Wignall as president, and that Kirkpatrick stepped down as leader.",[3724,3744],"resources",{"date":3746,"title":3747,"body":3748,"cites":3749},"2026-07-18","Mike Bernier named leader","The party’s executive council named Mike Bernier, a former Minister of Education and MLA for Peace River South, as leader.",[3750,3751],"rel-bernier","cbc-milobar-live",{"date":3753,"title":3754,"body":3755,"cites":3756},"2026-08-30","Candidate for the Abbotsford-Mission by-election","The party named Lakhwinder Jhaj as its candidate in the by-election set for 2026-09-26.",[3757,3758],"rel-jhaj","abby-cands",{"date":2688,"title":3760,"body":3761,"cites":3762},"Eight MLAs join, Peter Milobar becomes leader","Bernier stepped aside. Peter Milobar, Bruce Banman, Rosalyn Bird, Ian Paton, Elenore Sturko, Áʼa꞉líya Warbus, Teresa Wat and Donegal Wilson joined the party, and Milobar became leader.",[3763,3751,3764],"am-join","cjdc-milobar",{"date":2196,"title":3766,"body":3767,"cites":3768},"Seven MLAs return to the Conservatives, Sturko becomes leader","On the day the election was called, Milobar and six of the MLAs went back to the BC Conservatives. Sturko stayed and became leader.",[3769,3770,3771,3772],"am-defect","cfjc-milobar","rel-milobar","tc-sturko",{"date":2125,"title":3774,"body":3775,"cites":3776},"Andrew Weaver named candidate","The party named Andrew Weaver, a former BC Green leader who represented Oak Bay-Gordon Head from 2013 to 2020, as its candidate there.",[3777,3778],"rel-weaver","tyee-weaver",{"date":2960,"title":3780,"body":3781,"cites":3782},"Sturko to run in Surrey South","Sturko said she would run in Surrey South, the district she first won in a 2022 by-election.",[3783,3784],"pan-surrey-south","leader",[3786,3787,3788],"Global News reports from April 2025","CentreBC news posts from 2025 and 2026","Reporting from CBC News, Vista Radio, CFJC Today, CJDC-TV, The Tyee, The Canadian Press and Peace Arch News in September 2026",[3790,3791,3792],"The founding date of 2025-03-28 comes from the party. Elections BC’s registration date has not been checked in an Elections BC record.","Mike Wignall’s election as president and the adoption of the constitution are reported only by the party.","The Abbotsford-Mission by-election was set for 2026-09-26. voche.me has not checked an Elections BC notice on whether it went ahead.",[3794,3797],{"role":2144,"name":3795,"since":2196,"cites":3796},"Elenore Sturko",[2147,3770,3772,3777],{"role":3798,"name":3799,"cites":3800},"President","Mike Wignall",[3724,3770,3769],{"src":3802,"alt":3803,"sourceUrl":3804,"checkedAt":3445},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fcentre-bc.webp","Centre BC logo","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.centrebc.ca\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fcropped-Centrebc-favicon512x512-2026.jpg",{},{"searchUrl":2160,"filings":3807,"notes":3808,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3811,"gaps":3813},[],[3809,3810,2176],"Elections BC pays a yearly allowance to a registered party whose candidates won at least 2 percent of all valid votes in the last general election, or at least 5 percent of the votes in the districts where it ran candidates. Centre BC was registered after the 2024 election. Elections BC’s allowance page lists payments for 2025 and 2026 to the BC Green Party, the BC NDP and the Conservative Party, and lists none to Centre BC.","In June 2026 the party told its members that its first year ended with more money coming in than going out, and with no debt. Those are the party’s own figures, and voche.me has not checked them against a filed report.",[2178,2179,3812],"CentreBC AGM release of 2026-06-20",[3814,2183],"The party’s annual financial reports have not been opened. The reports sit behind a search form, and this review did not use it.",{"entries":3816,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3859,"gaps":3861},[3817,3823,3828,3832,3836,3841,3845,3850,3855],{"date":3818,"publisher":3819,"title":3820,"url":3821,"summary":3822},"2026-09-05","Abbotsford News","Candidates finalized for Abbotsford-Mission byelection","https:\u002F\u002Fabbynews.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F05\u002Fcandidates-finalized-for-abbotsford-mission-byelection\u002F","Lists Lakhwinder Jhaj as the CentreBC candidate in the Abbotsford-Mission by-election, against Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and three others.",{"date":2688,"publisher":3824,"title":3825,"url":3826,"summary":3827},"Vista Radio (AM 1150)","Former B.C. Conservatives join forces with CentreBC, with Milobar tapped as new leader","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.am1150.ca\u002F89429\u002Fnews\u002Fpolitics\u002Fformer-b-c-conservatives-join-forces-with-centrebc-with-milobar-tapped-as-new-leader\u002F","Mike Bernier stepped aside so Peter Milobar could lead CentreBC. Elenore Sturko and six former Conservative MLAs joined with Milobar.",{"date":2688,"publisher":2187,"title":3829,"url":3830,"summary":3831},"Centrists, former B.C. Conservatives join forces under Milobar as snap election speculation swirls","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Flivestory\u002Fbritish-columbia-politics-independents-bc-centre-conservatives-9.7350118","Names the eight MLAs who joined CentreBC. Milobar said the party would focus on the economy and public safety and stay out of culture wars.",{"date":2196,"publisher":3824,"title":3833,"url":3834,"summary":3835},"CentreBC MLAs defect back to the B.C. Conservatives after snap election call","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.am1150.ca\u002F89578\u002Fnews\u002Fpolitics\u002Fcentrebc-mlas-defect-back-to-the-b-c-conservatives-after-snap-election-call\u002F","Milobar and six MLAs went back to the Conservatives on the day the election was called. Sturko said she would stay with CentreBC. Party president Mike Wignall said Milobar had not discussed the move with the party executive.",{"date":2196,"publisher":3837,"title":3838,"url":3839,"summary":3840},"CFJC Today","Kamloops Centre MLA Milobar rejoins BC Conservatives","https:\u002F\u002Fcfjctoday.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F22\u002Fkamloops-centre-mla-milobar-rejoins-bc-conservatives\u002F","Reports that Sturko did not return to the Conservatives and will lead CentreBC, and quotes her saying she has found a political home with the party.",{"date":81,"publisher":3349,"title":3842,"url":3843,"summary":3844},"Andrew Weaver is back as a CentreBC candidate","https:\u002F\u002Fthetyee.ca\u002FNews\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F24\u002FAndrew-Weaver-Back-CentreBC-Candidate\u002F","Former Green leader Andrew Weaver will run for CentreBC in Oak Bay-Gordon Head. He said he decided after the MLAs went back to the Conservatives, and that he joined the party in December.",{"date":2960,"publisher":3846,"title":3847,"url":3848,"summary":3849},"Times Colonist (The Canadian Press)","Elenore Sturko’s roller-coaster political ride lands her as leader of CentreBC","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.timescolonist.com\u002F2026-bc-votes\u002Felenore-sturkos-roller-coaster-political-ride-lands-her-as-leader-of-centrebc-12824686","Sturko describes the meeting where Milobar told the MLAs of the offer to return to the Conservatives, and says she agreed to lead the party when asked.",{"date":2960,"publisher":3851,"title":3852,"url":3853,"summary":3854},"Peace Arch News","Centre BC leader Elenore Sturko running in Surrey South for provincial election","https:\u002F\u002Fpeacearchnews.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F25\u002Fcentre-bc-leader-elenore-sturko-running-in-surrey-south-for-provincial-election\u002F","Sturko said she will run in Surrey South, where she was first elected in 2022, and that the party offers a choice for voters who do not want the NDP or the Conservatives.",{"date":75,"publisher":2187,"title":3856,"url":3857,"summary":3858},"First weekend of provincial campaigns wraps in B.C. with new promises, renewed criticisms","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Ffirst-weekend-of-bc-elections-9.7360550","Sturko campaigned in Surrey and said CentreBC is centred on social responsibility, fiscal responsibility and being a home for liberals.",[3860,2221],"Web searches for CentreBC, Centre BC and Elenore Sturko with 2026, September 2026",[3862,3863],"A Prince George Citizen article on Sturko as leader and a Castanet article on the 2025 launch refused direct reads, so they are left out.","Coverage from January to August 2026 has not been compiled.",[3865,3866,3867,3868,3869,3870],"Elections BC lists Elenore Sturko as the leader of Centre BC, and its ballot name as CentreBC. Sturko won Surrey-Cloverdale in 2024 for the Conservative Party, with 10,268 votes (48.31 percent), according to Elections BC. The legislature’s member list, read on 2026-09-30, gives her party as Independent.","Sturko became leader on 2026-09-22. Four days earlier, she and seven other MLAs who had left the BC Conservative caucus joined the party, and Peter Milobar became its leader. On 2026-09-22, the day the election was called, Milobar and the six others went back to the Conservatives. Sturko stayed and took over as leader.","Former MLA Karin Kirkpatrick founded the party. Elections BC approved it in early April 2025, and it launched outside the legislature on 2025-04-10. Kirkpatrick stepped down in June 2026, and Mike Bernier led the party from 2026-07-18 until Milobar replaced him.","The party says it gives a voice to voters who want strong public services and a strong private sector, and wants “a balanced approach to government”. Its president, Mike Wignall, says it is building another option to the BC NDP and the BC Conservatives. Sturko told CBC News the party is built on social responsibility, fiscal responsibility and being “a home for liberals”.","The party says its Policy Committee is still writing its first policy areas, and that a full platform will follow. Its earlier releases set out positions on the cost of food, child care, extortion in Surrey, forestry, pipelines and Indigenous title. All of them were published before Sturko became leader.","Former BC Green leader Andrew Weaver is running for the party in Oak Bay-Gordon Head, the party and The Tyee report. The party was registered after the 2024 election, so it has no result from that election.",{"accent":3872,"onAccent":2231,"tint":3873,"ink":2233},"#BE123C","#f9e7ec",[3875,3895,3921,3942,3975,4007,4021,4036,4063,4071,4093],{"issue":181,"paragraphs":3876,"proposals":3880,"questions":3887,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3888,"gaps":3891},[3877,3878,3879],"The party’s vision page says it wants a province “where everyone has access to housing”. It gives no housing target.","In February 2026, under leader Karin Kirkpatrick, the party said housing policy should be judged by how affordable homes become for people.","In July 2026, leader Mike Bernier wrote that the party would tackle housing costs “with real supply, not slogans”.",[3881],{"title":3882,"detail":3883,"authority":3884,"cites":3885},"Measure housing policy by affordability","The party said in February 2026 that housing policy should be judged by how affordable homes become for people, and linked to that result.","Provincial housing policy and the ministry responsible for housing.",[3886],"rel-budget-decline",[],[3889,3890],"The CentreBC Our Policy, Our Vision and Our Values pages, https:\u002F\u002Fwww.centrebc.ca\u002Four-policy\u002F","Every CentreBC news post listed from 2025-02-12 to 2026-09-23, https:\u002F\u002Fwww.centrebc.ca\u002Fnews\u002F",[3892,3893,3894],"These positions were published before Elenore Sturko became leader on 2026-09-22. voche.me has not found a statement from her that adopts or drops them.","The party has published no 2026 election platform. Its policy page says the full platform is still being written.","The party gives no number of homes, no cost and no date.",{"issue":195,"paragraphs":3896,"proposals":3901,"questions":3917,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3918,"gaps":3919},[3897,3898,3899,3900],"The party’s vision page lists “accessible, well-funded healthcare and mental health supports” among its goals.","In February 2026 the party said it would expand home care for seniors and cut paperwork for doctors so they can see more patients.","In a June 2026 opinion piece, Karin Kirkpatrick blamed the government for delaying long-term care projects and phase 2 of the Burnaby Hospital, and called for health planning based on the growth of the senior population.","In August 2026, Mike Bernier wrote that the Ministry of Health should show the effect on patients before it changes how a clinic is paid, and that money for complex care such as HIV care should be part of the base funding.",[3902,3907,3912],{"title":3903,"detail":3904,"authority":3905,"cites":3906},"Expand home care for seniors","The party said in February 2026 that it would expand home care so seniors can stay at home longer.","The Ministry of Health and the regional health authorities.",[3886],{"title":3908,"detail":3909,"authority":3910,"cites":3911},"Less paperwork for doctors","The party said in February 2026 that it would reduce the paperwork doctors must do, so they can spend more time with patients.","The Ministry of Health.",[3886],{"title":3913,"detail":3914,"authority":3910,"cites":3915},"Check the effect on patients before changing clinic funding","Mike Bernier wrote in August 2026 that before a funding model changes, the Ministry of Health should have to show how patients would keep their care, and that funding for complex care, including HIV care, should be built into the base model.",[3916],"rel-hiv",[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,3920],"The party gives no cost and no date for its health positions.",{"issue":167,"paragraphs":3922,"proposals":3926,"questions":3938,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3939,"gaps":3940},[3923,3924,3925],"In February 2026, under Karin Kirkpatrick, the party said it would remove the provincial sales tax (PST) on food production and farm equipment to lower the price of food grown in BC.","In the same release, the party said it would treat child care as essential to the economy and make $10-a-day child care available to every family.","After the 2026 budget, the party criticised the increase in the lowest income tax rate, the pause in adjusting tax brackets for inflation, and the cut to tax credits for low-income families.",[3927,3933],{"title":3928,"detail":3929,"authority":3930,"cites":3931},"Remove PST on food production and farm equipment","The party said it would remove the provincial sales tax on food production and farm equipment, to lower the price of food grown in BC.","A change to the Provincial Sales Tax Act, passed by the legislature.",[3886,3932],"rel-budget-bankrupt",{"title":3934,"detail":3935,"authority":3936,"cites":3937},"$10-a-day child care for every family","The party said it would treat child care as essential to the economy and reach the goal of $10-a-day child care for every family.","The provincial child care budget and the ministry responsible for child care.",[3886],[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,3941],"The party gives no cost for either measure.",{"issue":211,"paragraphs":3943,"proposals":3947,"questions":3971,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":3972,"gaps":3973},[3944,3945,3946],"In November 2025 the party published a three-step plan on extortion threats against businesses in Surrey. The release quotes party spokesperson Trevor Loke.","In February 2026, a CentreBC opinion piece by Rachelle Chartrand, then a party regional director, called for one provincial lead official on intimate partner violence.","The party’s vision page lists “public safety backed by strong justice and treatment systems”.",[3948,3954,3960,3965],{"title":3949,"detail":3950,"authority":3951,"cites":3952},"A unit in Surrey to follow and freeze extortion money","The party proposed a Surrey unit made up of Canada’s financial crimes agency (FINTRAC), the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency, to trace money and freeze assets within hours.","The party asked both the Province and the federal government to set it up. The three agencies are federal.",[3953],"rel-extortion",{"title":3955,"detail":3956,"cost":3957,"authority":3958,"cites":3959},"Help for businesses that receive threats","The party proposed a reporting website in several languages, security grants of $2,000 to $5,000 for businesses, and a standard of protection within 48 hours of a threat being reported.","$2,000 to $5,000 per business grant; no total given.","The party asked the Province and the federal government to fund it.",[3953],{"title":3961,"detail":3962,"authority":3963,"cites":3964},"A court track for extortion cases","The party proposed a pilot with its own court list and a special Crown prosecutor team for extortion cases.","The BC Prosecution Service and the provincial courts.",[3953],{"title":3966,"detail":3967,"authority":3968,"cites":3969},"One provincial lead on intimate partner violence","The opinion piece called for a provincial lead in the public safety ministry or the Attorney General’s office, with power to coordinate ministries and track progress against public timelines.","The provincial government, through the Attorney General or the public safety ministry.",[3970],"rel-ipv",[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,3974],"The extortion plan gives no total cost.",{"issue":174,"paragraphs":3976,"proposals":3980,"questions":4003,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4004,"gaps":4005},[3977,3978,3979],"In October 2025, under Karin Kirkpatrick, the party set five conditions for any pipeline to the North Coast: Indigenous co-ownership, a BC Energy Future Fund, safety and climate rules, local jobs and buying, and a clear legal path with full public information.","After the Crofton pulp mill closure was announced in December 2025, the party called for income support and retraining for workers, a steadier supply of wood for mills, faster permits, and a fund to help forestry towns through price drops.","The party’s values page says it supports small business and “responsible resource development”.",[3981,3988,3994,3999],{"title":3982,"detail":3983,"authority":3984,"cites":3985},"Five conditions for any pipeline","Indigenous co-ownership, a BC Energy Future Fund, safety and climate rules, local jobs and local buying, and a clear legal path with full public information. The party said a project that does not meet them should not be built.","Pipelines that cross provinces are approved by the federal government. The Province sets permits and its own conditions.",[3986,3987],"rel-pipeline-2025","rel-pipeline-2026",{"title":3989,"detail":3990,"authority":3991,"cites":3992},"Support for laid-off forestry workers","Bridge income, fast retraining and apprenticeships, and mental health, money and career help for workers who lose their jobs.","Provincial ministries for forests and for jobs and training.",[3993],"rel-crofton",{"title":3995,"detail":3996,"authority":3997,"cites":3998},"Changes to forest rules","A steadier wood supply through changes to the rights to cut timber on public land, faster cutting permits and road approvals, and changes to stumpage, the fee the Province charges for timber cut on public land.","The Ministry of Forests and provincial forest law.",[3993],{"title":4000,"detail":4001,"authority":2262,"cites":4002},"Forestry Stability and Transition Fund","A provincial fund to protect forestry communities when world prices fall.",[3993],[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,4006],"The party gives no cost for its forestry fund.",{"issue":203,"paragraphs":4008,"proposals":4011,"questions":4018,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4019,"gaps":4020},[4009,4010],"The party’s vision page lists “a modernized education system that equips our youth for the future”.","In June 2026 the party published an opinion piece by Rachelle Chartrand, a teacher and the party’s Communications Chair, on artificial intelligence in schools. It said a CentreBC provincial strategy would make every graduate able to use AI, set rules for AI use from kindergarten to university, and pay for teacher training.",[4012],{"title":4013,"detail":4014,"authority":4015,"cites":4016},"A provincial plan for artificial intelligence in schools","Every student graduates able to use AI, the curriculum puts more weight on critical thinking and creativity, the Province sets rules for AI use from kindergarten to post-secondary, and teachers get training.","The Ministry of Education and Child Care and the ministry for post-secondary education.",[4017],"rel-ai",[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,3508],{"issue":219,"paragraphs":4022,"proposals":4026,"questions":4032,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4033,"gaps":4034},[4023,4024,4025],"The party’s vision page says it would use evidence-based solutions to fight climate change, protect biodiversity and invest in green technology, while also supporting mining, forestry and energy.","Safety and climate rules are one of the five conditions the party set in October 2025 for any pipeline.","In August 2026 the party asked why the government had declared a provincial state of emergency for wildfires in 2023 and had not done so in 2026.",[4027],{"title":4028,"detail":4029,"authority":4030,"cites":4031},"Safety and climate rules for any pipeline","The party said any pipeline must meet safety and climate rules that protect ecosystems, as one of its five conditions.","The federal government approves pipelines that cross provinces. The Province sets its own permits.",[3986],[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,4035],"The party has published no emissions target and no position on carbon pricing that voche.me found.",{"issue":152,"paragraphs":4037,"proposals":4041,"questions":4060,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4061,"gaps":4062},[4038,4039,4040],"In August 2026, leader Mike Bernier wrote that promises to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) are “more about political messaging than practical solutions”, and listed what CentreBC would do instead.","In March 2026 the party wrote that modern treaties such as Nisga’a and Tsawwassen show that negotiated agreements bring stability, and called for good-faith negotiation over court cases.","Indigenous co-ownership is the first of the party’s five conditions for any pipeline.",[4042,4048,4052,4056],{"title":4043,"detail":4044,"authority":4045,"cites":4046},"One provincial framework for treaties and agreements","A single framework that sets negotiating mandates, funding, standards and timelines for treaties and reconciliation agreements across all ministries and provincial agencies.","The provincial government, through the ministry responsible for Indigenous relations.",[4047],"rel-dripa",{"title":4049,"detail":4050,"cites":4051},"Bring everyone in earlier","First Nations, local governments, workers, businesses and environmental experts would meet earlier in a process, with public accountability.",[4047],{"title":4053,"detail":4054,"cites":4055},"Agreements by sector","Agreements for forestry, mining, energy, infrastructure and housing that support both reconciliation and economic development.",[4047],{"title":4057,"detail":4058,"cites":4059},"Measure results","Track results such as Indigenous economic participation, investment certainty, environmental care and community well-being.",[4047],[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,3508],{"issue":876,"paragraphs":4064,"proposals":4066,"questions":4067,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4068,"gaps":4069},[4065],"The party’s vision page lists “long-term infrastructure and transportation investments” among its goals. At its launch in April 2025, Karin Kirkpatrick said the party would run on a long-term approach to investing in infrastructure.",[],[],[3889,3890],[3893,4070],"The party has named no highway, transit or ferry project and gives no cost.",{"issue":131,"paragraphs":4072,"proposals":4076,"questions":4089,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4090,"gaps":4091},[4073,4074,4075],"The party’s vision page says it would balance the budget over the long term through better investments and spending, while protecting health care, education and social supports.","After the 2026 budget, the party called it “a blueprint for bankruptcy” and pointed to its $13.3 billion deficit. In November 2025 it called for “a credible path to fiscal balance”.","In July 2026, Karin Kirkpatrick wrote that any yearly payment BC receives from a new oil pipeline should go by law into a separate BC Energy Future Fund.",[4077,4084],{"title":4078,"detail":4079,"authority":4080,"cites":4081},"Balance the budget over the long term","The party says it would balance the budget over the long term while protecting health care, education and social supports. It gives no year.","The provincial budget, passed by the legislature.",[4082,4083],"vision","rel-lookwest",{"title":4085,"detail":4086,"authority":4087,"cites":4088},"A BC Energy Future Fund in law","Payments the Province receives from a pipeline would go by law into a separate BC Energy Future Fund for the energy transition.","A provincial law passed by the legislature.",[3987,3986],[],[3889,3890],[3892,3893,4092],"The party gives no year for a balanced budget and no costed plan.",{"issue":143,"paragraphs":4094,"proposals":4097,"questions":4098,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4099,"gaps":4100},[4095,4096],"The party’s vision page lists “transparent, accountable, and ethical leadership”. Its values page says it wants to bring back civility and respectful debate in politics.","The party’s policy page says each proposal is tested against five questions: whether it fits the party’s values, has evidence behind it, is affordable, can be carried out, and leaves the province stronger.",[],[],[3889,3890],[3893,4101],"The party has made no specific proposal on legislature rules, ethics law or elections that voche.me found.",[4103,4107,4111,4115,4120,4124,4128],{"question":4104,"answer":4105,"cites":4106},"Who leads Centre BC?","Elenore Sturko, the MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale. She became leader on 2026-09-22, and Elections BC lists her as leader.",[2147,3770,3772],{"question":4108,"answer":4109,"cites":4110},"Where is Elenore Sturko running?","She says she is running in Surrey South, where she was first elected in 2022. Elections BC’s list of accepted nominations did not show her name on 2026-09-30. Nominations close on 2026-10-03.",[3783,3784,2634],{"question":4112,"answer":4113,"cites":4114},"What happened with the MLAs who joined in September?","Eight MLAs joined on 2026-09-18 and Peter Milobar became leader. On 2026-09-22 Milobar and six others returned to the BC Conservatives. Sturko stayed.",[3763,3769,3770],{"question":4116,"answer":4117,"cites":4118},"Has the party published a platform?","Its policy page, read on 2026-09-30, says its Policy Committee is still writing its first policy areas and that a full platform will follow. Earlier releases set out positions on food costs, child care, extortion, forestry, pipelines and Indigenous title.",[4119,3886,3953,4047],"policy",{"question":4121,"answer":4122,"cites":4123},"Who founded the party?","Karin Kirkpatrick, who was elected as a BC Liberal in 2020 and sat for BC United until 2024. Elections BC approved the party in April 2025.",[3722,3723],{"question":4125,"answer":4126,"cites":4127},"Is Andrew Weaver running for Centre BC?","Yes. The party named him its candidate in Oak Bay-Gordon Head on 2026-09-23. He represented that district from 2013 to 2020 as a BC Green.",[3777,3778],{"question":4129,"answer":4130,"cites":4131},"Does the party get public money from Elections BC?","Elections BC’s allowance page lists payments for 2025 and 2026 only to the BC Green Party, the BC NDP and the Conservative Party. Centre BC did not exist at the 2024 election, which sets who qualifies.",[2166],{"entries":4133,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4134,"gaps":4138},[],[4135,4136,4137],"The legislature’s party standings, read through its data service on 2026-09-30","The legislature’s 2026 index of standing votes for Elenore Sturko, https:\u002F\u002Fapi.lims.leg.bc.ca\u002Fhdms\u002Ffile\u002FIndex\u002F43rd2nd\u002F2026-Votess.htm","CentreBC news posts from 2025-02-12 to 2026-09-23",[4139,4140],"The legislature lists no member under Centre BC on 2026-09-30, and gives Elenore Sturko’s party as Independent.","Sturko’s 2026 recorded votes are in the vote index, but voche.me has not matched each vote to a date. None is listed here, because a vote cast before she joined the party on 2026-09-18 belongs to her as an Independent.","centre-bc",[4143,4144,4145,4146,4147,4148,4149,4153,4156,4159,4163,4166,4169,4173,4176,4180,4184,4188,4192,4196,4200,4204,4209,4212,4216,4220,4223,4227,4230,4235,4240,4244,4248,4251,4254,4257,4261,4264,4265,4266,4268,4272,4273,4274,4275,4277,4279],{"id":2147,"label":2631,"url":2632,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":2634,"label":479,"url":36,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":2574,"label":2636,"url":2637,"publisher":487,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":42,"label":483,"url":44,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":2166,"label":2646,"url":2647,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":2649,"label":2650,"url":2160,"publisher":34,"kind":2651,"checkedAt":25},{"id":4150,"label":4151,"url":4152,"publisher":3717,"kind":2655,"checkedAt":25},"home","CentreBC home 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He served as premier for 12 years.",[4519],"ce-bc-politics",{"title":4521,"body":4522,"cites":4523},"1952: Social Credit breaks away","In 1952 a new party led by W.A.C. Bennett broke away from the Conservative Party and took the name Social Credit, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia.",[4519],{"title":4525,"body":4526,"cites":4527},"March 2023: John Rustad becomes leader","Rustad, expelled from the BC Liberal caucus in 2022, joined the party in February 2023 and was named leader in March 2023. In September 2023 Bruce Banman joined him, giving the party two MLAs.",[4528],"prpeak-rustad",{"date":2097,"title":4530,"body":4531,"cites":4532},"2024 election: 44 seats and Official Opposition","The party ran 93 candidates, won 44 seats and received 911,153 votes, 43.28 per cent of the valid votes. The BC NDP won 47 seats.",[42],{"title":4534,"body":4535,"cites":4536},"March 2025: three MLAs leave to sit as Independents","Dallas Brodie, Jordan Kealy and Tara Armstrong announced they would sit together as Independents, after Rustad removed Brodie over posts about residential schools, CJDC-TV reported.",[4537],"cjdc-kealy",{"date":4539,"title":4540,"body":4541,"cites":4542},"2025-12-04","Rustad leaves the leadership","Rustad officially stopped being leader on December 4, 2025, according to CBC News. Trevor Halford served as interim leader until the 2026 leadership vote.",[4543,4544],"cbc-rustad-not-running","progress-findlay-wins",{"date":4546,"title":4547,"body":4548,"cites":4549},"2026-05-30","Kerry-Lynne Findlay wins the leadership","Findlay won on the fourth round with 51.0 per cent of points to Caroline Elliott’s 49.0 per cent. Iain Black, Yuri Fulmer and Peter Milobar were eliminated in earlier rounds.",[4550,4544],"cpbc-leadership-results",{"date":4552,"title":4553,"body":4554,"cites":4555},"2026-09-20","Findlay resigns; Doerkson becomes interim leader","Findlay resigned after 14 MLAs left caucus during her time as leader. Lorne Doerkson was named interim leader the same day, Global News reported.",[4556,4557],"cbc-findlay-resigns","global-findlay-timeline",{"date":2196,"title":4559,"body":4560,"cites":4561},"Election called; departed MLAs return","On the day David Eby called the election, Peter Milobar and six other MLAs who had joined CentreBC returned to the Conservatives, and the party said Brennan Day had also returned.",[4562,4563],"am1150-centrebc-return","cfjc-milobar-rejoins",{"date":2125,"title":4565,"body":4566,"cites":4567},"Sitting MLAs approved as candidates; Rustad will not run again","The party said its Election Readiness Committee approved every sitting member of its caucus to run, and that John Rustad would not seek re-election.",[4568,4543],"cpbc-mlas-approved",[4570,4571,4572,4573],"Elections BC statement of votes for 2024","The Canadian Encyclopedia article on politics in British Columbia","News reports from December 2024 to September 2026","The party’s posted 2026 leadership results",[4575,4576,4577],"No independent source giving the founding date of the party organization was found. The Canadian Encyclopedia gives 1903 as the first party-line election.","Results of general elections from 1903 to 2020 have not been added.","The date Trevor Halford became interim leader was not found in a source read for this record.",[4579,4584,4588],{"role":4580,"name":4581,"since":4552,"cites":4582},"Interim leader","Lorne Doerkson",[2147,4557,4583],"cbc-doerkson-named",{"role":4585,"name":4586,"cites":4587},"Party president","Mauro Francis",[4583],{"role":4589,"name":4590,"cites":4591},"Financial agent","Mae Romero",[4592,4593],"cpbc-home","cpbc-audited-2025",{"src":4595,"alt":4596,"sourceUrl":4597,"checkedAt":25},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fconservative-party-of-bc.webp","Conservative Party of BC logo","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F09\u002FUntitled-design-2.png",{},{"searchUrl":2160,"filings":4600,"notes":4620,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4624,"gaps":4628},[4601,4607,4614],{"period":4602,"kind":4603,"url":4604,"note":4605,"cites":4606},"2025 calendar year","Annual financial report, audited","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F04\u002FCPBC-Audited-Financials-2025.pdf","As posted on the party’s website. 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Loans payable $5,000,000.00 in total at December 31, 2024.",[4613],"cpbc-financials-2024",{"period":4615,"kind":4616,"url":4617,"note":4618,"cites":4619},"2025 and 2026 annual allowances","Public allowance paid by Elections BC","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Fcandidates-parties\u002Fannual-allowances\u002F","Elections BC pays each qualifying party $1.85 (2025) or $1.89 (2026) per vote received in 2024. It paid the Conservatives $1,685,633.05 in 2025 and $1,722,079.17 in 2026, in two payments each year.",[2934],[4621,4622,4623],"The two reports above are copies the party posted on its own website. The copies filed with Elections BC are in its Financial Reports and Political Contributions System.","The 2025 report shows a surplus for the year of $3,274,640.46. The 2024 statements show a deficit for the year of $5,258,297.07.","Reports for the 2026 election campaign are filed after election day and are not yet public.",[4625,2178,4626,4627],"Elections BC financial reporting page","Elections BC Financial Reports and Political Contributions System welcome page","Financial PDF files posted on conservativebc.ca",[4629,4630,4631],"The Elections BC search system returned an error page to a direct read, so the filed copies were not compared line by line with the party’s posted copies.","The 2024 statements posted by the party include no auditors’ report.","Lists of individual contributors were not read or copied.",{"entries":4633,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4685,"gaps":4688},[4634,4639,4643,4647,4652,4654,4659,4663,4667,4671,4676,4680],{"date":4546,"publisher":4635,"title":4636,"url":4637,"summary":4638},"Black Press Media (Chilliwack Progress)","Kerry-Lynne Findlay will be the next leader of the B.C. 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Elenore Sturko stayed with CentreBC.",{"date":2125,"publisher":4655,"title":4656,"url":4657,"summary":4658},"The Canadian Press, via Energeticcity.ca","B.C. Conservatives vow new rule to keep Doerkson leader, as Rustad exits","https:\u002F\u002Fenergeticcity.ca\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F23\u002Fleader-of-b-c-conservatives-says-they-are-united-ready-after-snap-election-call\u002F","The party constitution bars an interim leader from taking the job permanently. The board said it would seek a change, which needs a two-thirds vote at a members’ meeting.",{"date":2125,"publisher":2187,"title":4660,"url":4661,"summary":4662},"Former B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad not running for re-election","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Frustad-election-bc-9.7356107","The party confirmed Rustad, who led it in 2024 and left the leadership on December 4, 2025, will not run in Nechako Lakes.",{"date":70,"publisher":2187,"title":4664,"url":4665,"summary":4666},"Lorne Doerkson talks values as he leads B.C. 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NDP candidate Ravi Parmar said the NDP’s current path would produce more.",{"date":75,"publisher":4677,"title":2967,"url":4678,"summary":4679},"The Canadian Press, via Yahoo Finance Canada","https:\u002F\u002Fca.finance.yahoo.com\u002Fnews\u002Fb-c-eby-says-cut-185020397.html","Doerkson gave no timeline for balancing the budget. David Eby said the Conservative tax pledge would mean cuts to health care and education.",{"date":306,"publisher":4681,"title":4682,"url":4683,"summary":4684},"Black Press Media (The Northern View)","Doerkson promises to cut PST on Canadian alcohol","https:\u002F\u002Fthenorthernview.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F29\u002Fdoerkson-promises-to-cut-pst-on-canadian-alcohol\u002F","At a Langley winery, Doerkson promised to remove the 10 per cent PST on Canadian wine, beer and spirits until the trade dispute with the U.S. ends.",[4686,4687],"Web searches for the party, its leader and its pledges, May to September 2026","Every article listed here, opened and read in full on 2026-09-30",[4689,4690],"Reporting from before May 2026 has not been indexed here, apart from the history entries.","Paywalled coverage, including The Globe and Mail, was not read.",[4692,4693,4694,4695,4696],"In the 2024 election the party ran 93 candidates, won 44 of 93 seats and received 911,153 votes, 43.28 per cent of the valid votes, according to Elections BC’s statement of votes. That result made it the Official Opposition.","Elections BC’s register of parties, dated September 30, 2026, names Lorne Doerkson, MLA for Cariboo-Chilcotin, as interim leader. CBC News reported that the remaining caucus recommended him and the party’s board approved him after Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned on Sunday, September 20. The party’s own site calls him leader.","During Findlay’s time as leader, from May to September 2026, 14 members left the Conservative caucus, according to CBC News. After Doerkson took over, reporting from September 21 and 22 says John Rustad, Trevor Halford, Scott McInnis, Linda Hepner, Claire Rattée, Brennan Day, Peter Milobar and six other members who had joined CentreBC returned to the Conservatives. The legislature’s member records, read September 30, still list Brennan Day, Peter Milobar, Bruce Banman, Rosalyn Bird, Ian Paton, Teresa Wat, Á’a:líya Warbus and Donegal Wilson as Independent.","Elections BC accepts nominations until October 3, 2026, and its candidate list grows as nominations are accepted. The party’s team page lists its candidates by district, and Doerkson told CBC News the party is working to run a candidate in every district.","The party says it offers “real change” to make the province “safer and more affordable”. Its stated campaign commitments so far are no new taxes, removal of the PST on Canadian alcohol during the U.S. trade dispute, a plan to double LNG production by 2032, and repeal of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.",{"accent":4698,"onAccent":2231,"tint":4699,"ink":2233},"#1D4ED8","#e8edfb",[4701,4720,4730,4756,4765,4800,4810,4829,4851,4859,4874],{"issue":181,"paragraphs":4702,"proposals":4705,"questions":4706,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4713,"gaps":4717},[4703,4704],"The party’s platform page lists a policy area called “Get BC Building”, described in one line as “a plan to end the housing shortage and make life more affordable”. No text of that plan was published on the site by September 30, 2026.","In a September 25 statement, Lorne Doerkson said a Conservative government “will bring down the cost of building and buying a home so more homes get built”. He criticized the NDP plan announced that week to tax unsold condominiums. The statement names no specific measure.",[],[4707],{"question":4708,"answer":4709,"cites":4710},"Has the party published a housing plan?","By September 30, 2026 it had published a title and a one-line description, “Get BC Building”, and a statement from Doerkson promising to bring down the cost of building and buying a home.",[4711,4712],"cpbc-platform","cpbc-housing-tax",[4714,4715,4716],"The party’s platform page, conservativebc.ca\u002Four-platform, read 2026-09-30","All 11 party news releases listed on conservativebc.ca\u002Flatest-news-updates, September 23 to 30, 2026","The PDF files the party has posted on its website, listed through the site’s public media index",[4718,4719],"The platform page marks the platform “coming soon”. Its policy titles do not open to any published text as of 2026-09-30.","No housing measure with a cost, a date or a named law was found in the party’s material.",{"issue":195,"paragraphs":4721,"proposals":4724,"questions":4725,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4726,"gaps":4728},[4722,4723],"The party’s platform page lists five health titles: “Putting Patients First” (“Expanding Access to Care and Ending Long Wait Times”), “BC Recovers” (a plan on overdoses and addiction), “Real Support For Mental Wellness”, “Next Gen Reproductive Health” and “Standing Up for Seniors”. None of them opened to published text on September 30, 2026.","NDP Leader David Eby says the Conservative tax pledge would mean cuts to health care and education, pointing to remarks Tony Luck made in February 2024, The Canadian Press reported. Black Press Media reported Luck’s reply on September 28: “I do not intend to cut the health-care budget.”",[],[],[4714,4715,4716,4727],"Black Press Media and Canadian Press reports of September 28, 2026",[4718,4729],"No health measure with a cost or a date was found in the party’s material.",{"issue":167,"paragraphs":4731,"proposals":4735,"questions":4751,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4752,"gaps":4754},[4732,4733,4734],"The party’s two cost-of-living commitments so far are about taxes: a pledge of no new taxes, and removal of the provincial sales tax on Canadian alcohol while the U.S. trade dispute lasts.","Black Press Media reported that Doerkson, asked about the cost of the alcohol tax cut, said the budget would lose some revenue. The party has published no estimate of that cost.","The platform page also lists “Common Sense Childcare”, described as a plan to expand affordable childcare spots and work with independent childcare providers. No text of that plan was published by September 30, 2026.",[4736,4744],{"title":4737,"detail":4738,"authority":4739,"deadline":4740,"cites":4741},"Remove the PST on Canadian beer, wine and spirits","The party says a Conservative government would remove the provincial sales tax at the till on Canadian beer, wine and spirits for as long as the U.S. trade dispute lasts. Doerkson also said U.S. liquor would stay off store shelves until the dispute is resolved.","The provincial sales tax rate is set by provincial law, so the legislature and the finance ministry can change it.","For the length of the U.S. trade dispute, by the party’s account.",[4742,4743],"cpbc-pst-alcohol","bpm-pst-alcohol",{"title":4745,"detail":4746,"authority":4747,"cites":4748},"No new taxes and no tax increases","Doerkson pledged on September 27, 2026 that his government would not raise existing taxes or introduce new ones, for its whole term.","Provincial tax rates are set by the legislature.",[4749,4750],"cpbc-no-new-taxes","global-no-new-taxes",[],[4714,4715,4716,4753],"Global News, Black Press Media and Canadian Press reports of September 27 to 29, 2026",[4755],"The party has published no cost for the alcohol tax cut and no list of which taxes the pledge covers.",{"issue":211,"paragraphs":4757,"proposals":4760,"questions":4761,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4762,"gaps":4763},[4758,4759],"The party’s platform page lists “Safe and Secure”, described as “a plan to restore public safety and rebuilding confidence in our justice system”, and “BC Recovers”, a plan on the overdose and addictions crisis. Neither opened to published text on September 30, 2026.","The party’s September 29 release on its Surrey candidates says they will “restore safety to Surrey’s streets” and mentions extortion and violence against small businesses. It names no measure.",[],[],[4714,4715,4716],[4718,4764],"No public safety measure with a cost, a date or a named law was found in the party’s material.",{"issue":174,"paragraphs":4766,"proposals":4770,"questions":4795,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4796,"gaps":4798},[4767,4768,4769],"The BC Energy Superpower Plan, published September 28, 2026, is the only detailed plan the party had released by September 30. Its goal is to more than double natural gas production by 2032 and more than triple it by 2035.","The plan says the NDP slowed LNG projects. The NDP disputes the targets: Forests minister and NDP candidate Ravi Parmar called it a “ChatGPT plan” and said the NDP’s current path would more than triple LNG production by 2035, as Black Press Media reported.","The platform page also lists titles on food production (“Grown in BC”), mining, forestry and technology. None opened to published text on September 30, 2026.",[4771,4779,4783,4787,4791],{"title":4772,"detail":4773,"deadline":4774,"cites":4775},"Double natural gas production by 2032 and triple it by 2035","The plan sets a goal of more than doubling natural gas production by 2032 and more than tripling it by 2035, and designating the gas reserves of the Montney Formation a strategic provincial asset.","2032 and 2035",[4776,4777,4778],"cpbc-energy-plan","cpbc-energy","cpbc-lng",{"title":4780,"detail":4781,"authority":4087,"cites":4782},"A 120-day approval law for major projects","The party says it would pass a “120 Day Permitting Act” and match provincial permits, approvals and consultation to the federal Bill C-39, so projects led by the province are approved within one year.",[4778,4776],{"title":4784,"detail":4785,"cites":4786},"Resource corridors and pipeline expansions","The plan would set up resource development corridors for pipelines and power lines, and support the second phase of Coastal GasLink, Prince Rupert Gas Transmission and Enbridge’s Sunrise expansion.",[4776],{"title":4788,"detail":4789,"cites":4790},"Trade missions led by the premier","The plan promises trade missions led by the premier to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and South and Southeast Asia, energy agreements with buyers, energy security agreements with those countries, and sales to European buyers starting with Germany.",[4776],{"title":4792,"detail":4793,"cites":4794},"Bring LNG company head offices to BC","The plan says the party would contact companies that left BC’s LNG sector, naming ExxonMobil, Chevron, Petronas and Woodside, and encourage LNG and gas companies to base their head offices in the province.",[4776],[],[4714,4715,4716,4797,4727],"The BC Energy Superpower Plan PDF, 9 pages",[4799,4718],"The plan gives no cost estimate and no expected revenue figure.",{"issue":203,"paragraphs":4801,"proposals":4804,"questions":4805,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4806,"gaps":4808},[4802,4803],"The party’s platform page lists “Excellence in Education”, described as “a plan for common sense change to put learning first and restore excellence in education”. No text of that plan was published by September 30, 2026.","In an interview with CBC News published September 26, 2026, Doerkson said “I think that SOGI has to be removed”, referring to the sexual orientation and gender identity resources used in schools, and said schools should focus on arithmetic and reading.",[],[],[4714,4715,4716,4807],"CBC News interview with Lorne Doerkson, September 26, 2026",[4718,4809],"The party has published no written education policy that states the SOGI position.",{"issue":219,"paragraphs":4811,"proposals":4815,"questions":4824,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4825,"gaps":4827},[4812,4813,4814],"The energy plan published September 28, 2026 would end emissions limits that the party says stop new investment beyond LNG Canada, and would replace what it calls the “costly and confusing carbon tax framework” for LNG with “stable guidance”. It also asks the federal government to credit BC for emissions cuts abroad when BC gas replaces coal.","In his September 26 interview with CBC News, Doerkson said he believes climate change brings serious challenges, speaking of drought and the wildfire season in Cariboo-Chilcotin.","The platform page lists “Powering BC” as an energy title. It did not open to published text on September 30, 2026.",[4816,4820],{"title":4817,"detail":4818,"cites":4819},"End emissions limits that affect new LNG projects","The plan would end emissions limits the party says are stopping investment beyond LNG Canada, and review barriers to investment in the CleanBC plan with industry.",[4776],{"title":4821,"detail":4822,"cites":4823},"Replace the carbon tax framework for LNG","The plan would replace the carbon tax framework that applies to new LNG development with guidance that, in the party’s words, rewards operators without penalizing BC exports against U.S. and Qatari competitors.",[4776],[],[4714,4715,4716,4826,4807],"The BC Energy Superpower Plan PDF",[4828,4718],"The party has published no emissions target.",{"issue":152,"paragraphs":4830,"proposals":4835,"questions":4846,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4847,"gaps":4849},[4831,4832,4833,4834],"The party’s September 23, 2026 release says it will run on a plan to “repeal DRIPA”, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act passed in 2019.","In April 2026, Conservative MLA Trevor Halford introduced a bill to repeal that act. It was defeated at first reading, 44 votes to 47. Lorne Doerkson was among the 44 members recorded in favour.","The energy plan says the party would honour First Nations agreements on resources, pipelines and power lines, and expand loan guarantees so more First Nations can own a share of projects on their territory.","The platform page lists “Economic Reconciliation, Healthy Communities”, described as a plan for partnerships, economic development and respect for Indigenous governance. It did not open to published text on September 30, 2026.",[4836,4842],{"title":4837,"detail":4838,"authority":4839,"cites":4840},"Repeal the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act","The party says it will repeal DRIPA. The bill Trevor Halford introduced on April 22, 2026 would have done this; it was defeated at first reading.","DRIPA is a provincial law, so the legislature can repeal it.",[4568,4841],"hansard-20260422pm",{"title":4843,"detail":4844,"cites":4845},"Expand loan guarantees for First Nations ownership","The energy plan would expand loan guarantees so more First Nations can own a share of the projects on their territory, and would work with the First Nations Major Projects Coalition.",[4776],[],[4714,4715,4716,4848,4826],"Hansard for April 22, 2026",[4850,4718],"The party has published no plan for what would replace DRIPA.",{"issue":876,"paragraphs":4852,"proposals":4854,"questions":4855,"state":2132,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4856,"gaps":4857},[4853],"The party’s platform page lists “Get BC Moving”, described in one line: “Conservatives will do what it takes to get BC moving again, in every part of the province.” No text of that plan was published by September 30, 2026.",[],[],[4714,4715,4716],[4718,4858],"No transportation project, cost or date was found in the party’s material.",{"issue":131,"paragraphs":4860,"proposals":4864,"questions":4869,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4870,"gaps":4872},[4861,4862,4863],"The party’s main budget commitment is its no-new-taxes pledge of September 27, 2026. Its release says the NDP raised the lowest income tax rate from 5.06 per cent to 5.60 per cent; that figure is the party’s own statement.","The Canadian Press reported on September 28 that Doerkson gave no details on how a Conservative government would balance the budget. He said it would be “almost impossible to commit to how quickly we will be able to arrive at balanced budgets”.","The platform page lists “A Free and Prosperous BC”, described as a plan to encourage investment and “get government working for taxpayers”. It did not open to published text on September 30, 2026.",[4865],{"title":4866,"detail":4867,"authority":4747,"cites":4868},"No new taxes for a full term","Doerkson pledged that his government would not introduce new taxes or raise existing ones throughout its term.",[4749,4750],[],[4714,4715,4716,4871],"Canadian Press report of September 28, 2026",[4873,4718],"The party has published no costed fiscal plan and no date for a balanced budget.",{"issue":143,"paragraphs":4875,"proposals":4876,"questions":4877,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4878,"gaps":4880},[],[],[],[4714,4715,4716,4879],"The party’s official documents page (constitution and policy declaration, shown as page viewers only)",[4881,4882],"No platform title or release on legislature rules, ethics, transparency or elections was found on the party’s site on 2026-09-30.","The constitution and policy declaration on the official documents page load in a page viewer that did not return readable text.",[4884,4889,4894,4898,4903,4907,4911],{"question":4885,"answer":4886,"cites":4887},"Who leads the Conservative Party of BC?","Lorne Doerkson, MLA for Cariboo-Chilcotin, is interim leader. Elections BC’s register lists him, and he took over on September 20, 2026, after Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned. One candidate page on the party’s site carries the words “Interim Conservative Party Leader” under Caroline Elliott’s name; Elections BC and news reports name Doerkson.",[2147,4557,4583,4888],"cpbc-elliott",{"question":4890,"answer":4891,"cites":4892},"Can an interim leader stay on as premier?","The party constitution bars an interim leader from taking the job permanently, The Canadian Press reported. The party board said it would seek a change, which needs a two-thirds vote of members at a general meeting.",[4893],"cp-doerkson-rule",{"question":4895,"answer":4896,"cites":4897},"How did the party do in the 2024 election?","It ran 93 candidates, won 44 of 93 seats and received 43.28 per cent of the valid votes, according to Elections BC. That made it the Official Opposition.",[42,4583],{"question":4899,"answer":4900,"cites":4901},"Did the members who left in 2026 come back?","Reporting from September 21 and 22, 2026 says John Rustad, Trevor Halford, Scott McInnis, Linda Hepner and Claire Rattée were readmitted, and Peter Milobar and six other members who had joined CentreBC returned. Elenore Sturko stayed with CentreBC.",[4902,4562,4563],"cbc-rustad-rejoins",{"question":4904,"answer":4905,"cites":4906},"Is Jordan Kealy a Conservative candidate?","Kealy won Peace River North as a Conservative in 2024 and left the caucus in March 2025. The legislature lists him as Independent, and Elections BC’s candidate list shows him as Independent, with Curtis Whitford as the Conservative candidate in Peace River North.",[42,4537,3269,2634],{"question":4908,"answer":4909,"cites":4910},"Has the party released a full platform?","By September 30, 2026, its platform page said “coming soon” and listed 17 policy titles. The one detailed document was the BC Energy Superpower Plan on natural gas and LNG, released September 28.",[4711,4776],{"question":4912,"answer":4913,"cites":4914},"How is the party funded?","In 2025 the party reported $2,346,337.60 in political contributions and received $1,685,633.05 in public annual allowance from Elections BC, out of total income of $7,570,987.95.",[4593,2934],{"entries":4916,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":4939,"gaps":4943},[4917,4922,4926,4931,4935],{"date":820,"title":4918,"body":4919,"cites":4920},"Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2026 (Bill 2), third reading","The vote was tied 46 to 46, and the Speaker voted to pass the bill. Lorne Doerkson, John Rustad, Trevor Halford and Claire Rattée were among the 46 members recorded against.",[4921],"hansard-20260401pm",{"date":850,"title":4923,"body":4924,"cites":4925},"Bill to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, first reading","Trevor Halford introduced the bill. It was defeated 44 to 47. Lorne Doerkson and John Rustad were among the 44 recorded in favour; the two Green members voted against with the NDP.",[4841],{"date":511,"title":4927,"body":4928,"cites":4929},"K’ómoks Treaty Act (Bill 20), third reading","The bill passed 53 to 39. Lorne Doerkson, Trevor Halford, Claire Rattée and Peter Milobar were among the 39 recorded against. Five members elected as Conservatives in 2024 voted for it: Á’a:líya Warbus, John Rustad, Ian Paton, Brennan Day and Lawrence Mok.",[4930,42],"hansard-20260528pm",{"date":511,"title":4932,"body":4933,"cites":4934},"Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2026 (Bill 9), third reading","The vote was tied 46 to 46, and the Speaker voted to pass the bill. Lorne Doerkson and John Rustad were among the 46 recorded against, as were the two Green members.",[4930],{"date":511,"title":4936,"body":4937,"cites":4938},"Supply Act, 2026-2027 (Bill 22), third reading","The bill, which approves the province’s spending for the year, passed 46 to 45. Lorne Doerkson reported the bill from committee and then was among the 45 members recorded against it.",[4930],[4940,4941,4942],"The 2026 recorded-vote index for Lorne Doerkson, 43rd Parliament, 2nd session","Hansard transcripts for April 1, April 22 and May 28, 2026","The 2024 statement of votes, for which members were elected as Conservatives",[4944,4945,4946],"Only recorded divisions from the spring 2026 sitting were read. Votes decided by voice name nobody and are left out.","Votes from the 2025 sittings have not been reviewed for this record.","The division lists give member names only. Each member’s party at the time of a vote was not checked vote by vote, so this record names members and makes no party-wide count.","Conservative Party of British Columbia","conservative-party-of-bc",[4950,4952,4953,4954,4956,4958,4961,4963,4966,4969,4971,4973,4977,4981,4984,4986,4990,4993,4996,4999,5002,5005,5008,5011,5015,5019,5023,5027,5031,5035,5038,5040,5042,5043,5044,5047,5048,5049,5050,5051,5052,5057,5059,5060,5062,5064,5065,5066,5070,5075],{"id":2147,"label":4951,"url":2632,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"publishedAt":25,"checkedAt":25},"Registered political parties in British Columbia, as of September 30, 2026",{"id":2634,"label":479,"url":36,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":42,"label":483,"url":44,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":3269,"label":4955,"url":2637,"publisher":487,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Current party standings",{"id":2934,"label":4957,"url":4617,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Annual 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from Canadian alcohol (release)","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002Fconservatives-to-remove-pst-from-canadian-alcohol\u002F",{"id":4749,"label":5003,"url":5004,"publisher":4947,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":3312,"checkedAt":25},"Conservative Party of BC pledges no new taxes (release)","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002Fconservative-party-of-bc-pledges-no-new-taxes-on-british-columbians\u002F",{"id":4712,"label":5006,"url":5007,"publisher":4947,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":2960,"checkedAt":25},"Statement from leader Lorne Doerkson on the NDP housing tax plan","https:\u002F\u002Fconservativebc.ca\u002Fstatement-from-interim-leader-lorne-doerkson-on-the-ndps-housing-tax-plan\u002F",{"id":4568,"label":5009,"url":5010,"publisher":4947,"kind":2655,"publishedAt":2125,"checkedAt":25},"Every Conservative Party of BC MLA approved to run as a candidate 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Elections BC lists Lorne Doerkson as its interim leader; he took over on September 20, 2026, when Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned. The party won 44 of 93 seats in 2024. 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The party’s first Elections BC financial report covers a period that begins on 2025-06-09.",[3723,5200,5201],"cbc-launch","afr-2025","OneBC: leader, plan and record for the 2026 BC election",{"entries":5204,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5260,"gaps":5263},[5205,5209,5213,5218,5223,5230,5235,5241,5248,5254],{"date":2097,"title":5206,"body":5207,"cites":5208},"Brodie and Armstrong elected as Conservatives","Dallas Brodie won Vancouver-Quilchena for the Conservative Party with 11,464 votes (51.58 percent). Tara Armstrong won Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream for the Conservative Party with 14,303 votes (53.92 percent). OneBC did not yet exist.",[42],{"title":5210,"body":5211,"cites":5212},"Brodie removed from the Conservative caucus, March 2025","Conservative leader John Rustad removed Brodie from caucus over podcast comments that he said mocked residential school survivors. Brodie denied mocking survivors and told CBC News she had been mocking what she called post-modern, woke culture. Armstrong and Jordan Kealy left the Conservatives after her removal.",[5200,3723],{"date":5214,"title":5215,"body":5216,"cites":5217},"2025-06-12","OneBC launched","Brodie and Armstrong announced the party, with Brodie as interim leader and Armstrong as house leader. Jordan Kealy did not join. The party’s first financial report covers a period that starts on 2025-06-09.",[3723,5200,5201],{"date":4179,"title":5219,"body":5220,"cites":5221},"Land acknowledgement bill defeated","The legislature defeated Brodie’s Land Acknowledgement Prohibition Act at first reading, 5 to 85.",[5222],"hansard-20251023am",{"date":5224,"title":5225,"body":5226,"cites":5227},"2025-12-13","Board says it removed Brodie as leader","The party posted a resolution signed by three of four board members, Tim Thielmann, Paul Ratchford and Tara Armstrong, removing Brodie as interim leader. A party post on X accused people acting for Brodie of trying to take control of party systems without permission. Brodie said the dispute began when she tried to fire a staffer over comments she called incompatible with her values, and said she still considered herself leader.",[5228,5229],"cbc-ousted","global-removed",{"title":5231,"body":5232,"cites":5233},"Official party status lost, December 2025","CBC News reported on 2025-12-17 that Armstrong had written to the Speaker to say she would not caucus with Brodie, and that both would sit as Independents. A party needs at least two members to have official status in the legislature.",[5234],"cbc-status-lost",{"date":5236,"title":5237,"body":5238,"cites":5239},"2025-12-21","Brodie says she has regained control","In a social media post, Brodie wrote that after negotiations she had regained control of the party and was its leader again. Armstrong said she stood by her choice to sit as an Independent.",[5240],"bp-brodie-back",{"date":5242,"title":5243,"body":5244,"cites":5245},"2026-05-21","Recall petition issued against Brodie","Elections BC issued a recall petition in Vancouver-Quilchena with Brodie as its subject. It needed 15,232 signatures by 2026-07-20.",[5246,5247],"ebc-recall-issued","nnw-recall",{"date":5249,"title":5250,"body":5251,"cites":5252},"2026-07-20","Recall petition fails","Elections BC said the petition failed, with just under 3,700 signatures handed in.",[5253],"cfjc-recall-fails",{"date":2196,"title":5255,"body":5256,"cites":5257},"Chapman announces move as election is called","Surrey South MLA Brent Chapman announced on X that he was leaving the Conservatives for OneBC, shortly before the election was called. The clerk’s office said the party standings did not change, and the legislature still lists him as a Conservative.",[5258,5259,2574],"bp-chapman","tc-party-status",[2136,5261,5262],"Reporting on the party launch, the December 2025 leadership dispute, the 2026 recall petition and the 2026 election call","Elections BC recall news release",[5264],"No independent source states the exact date of Brodie’s removal from the Conservative caucus; the sources read give March 2025.",[5266],{"role":4580,"name":5267,"since":5236,"cites":5268},"Dallas Brodie",[2147,5269,5240],"site-leadership",{"src":5271,"alt":5272,"sourceUrl":14,"checkedAt":3445},"\u002Fimages\u002Fparties\u002Fbc-provincial-2026\u002Fonebc.webp","OneBC logo",{},{"searchUrl":2160,"filings":5275,"notes":5282,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5286,"gaps":5289},[5276],{"period":5277,"kind":5278,"url":5279,"note":5280,"cites":5281},"2025-06-09 to 2025-12-31","Annual financial report (amendment 2, filed 2026-07-17)","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002Fpublished\u002F100150495.pdf","Political contributions $177,568.50: 101 contributors gave more than $250 ($91,484.50) and 1,755 gave $250 or less ($86,084). Total income $178,338.50. Total expenses $40,580.25, including $11,244.10 for professional services, $6,590.88 for banking and payment fees, $6,016.46 for travel and $5,567.87 for advertising. Surplus for the period $137,758.25. The report shows no annual allowance.",[5201,3652],[5283,5284,5285],"The party filed its original 2025 report on 2026-03-30, then amendments on 2026-06-24 and 2026-07-17. The figures above come from the latest amendment.","At 2025-12-31 the party reported $150,673.78 in assets and $13,730.53 in liabilities.","Elections BC pays a yearly allowance based on votes in the last general election. OneBC did not exist at the 2024 election, and its 2025 report shows $0.00 in annual allowance.",[5287,5288,2178],"Elections BC Financial Reports and Political Contributions System, financial reports searched for OneBC on 2026-09-30","OneBC 2025 annual financial report, amendment 2, pages 1 to 4",[5290,5291],"The lists of individual contributors in the report were not transcribed.","No report for 2026 or for the 2026 campaign is on the public record yet.",{"entries":5293,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5320,"gaps":5322},[5294,5299,5303,5307,5311,5315],{"date":5295,"publisher":2966,"title":5296,"url":5297,"summary":5298},"2026-05-14","Recall petition to be issued against OneBC legislator Dallas Brodie","https:\u002F\u002Fnationalnewswatch.com\u002F2026\u002F05\u002F14\u002Frecall-petition-to-be-issued-against-onebc-legislator-dallas-brodie","Elections BC approved an application to recall Brodie. The application said she had put her new party ahead of the people of Vancouver-Quilchena. The campaign needed 15,232 signatures by July 20.",{"date":5249,"publisher":2966,"title":5300,"url":5301,"summary":5302},"Elections BC announces failure of recall petition against Vancouver MLA Dallas Brodie","https:\u002F\u002Fcfjctoday.com\u002F2026\u002F07\u002F20\u002Felections-bc-announces-failure-of-recall-petition-against-vancouver-mla-dallas-brodie\u002F","Elections BC said the recall petition failed. The person behind it handed in just under 3,700 signatures, below the more than 15,000 needed.",{"date":2196,"publisher":2202,"title":5304,"url":5305,"summary":5306},"Surrey South MLA Chapman leaving B.C. Conservatives for One BC","https:\u002F\u002Fsurreynowleader.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F22\u002Fsurrey-south-mla-chapman-leaving-b-c-conservatives-for-one-bc\u002F","Brent Chapman said in a statement on X that he was leaving the Conservatives for OneBC. He said the Conservative Party had changed since he joined, and named the treatment of his wife, former leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay.",{"date":2196,"publisher":2049,"title":5308,"url":5309,"summary":5310},"Here are the B.C. party leaders as voters go to the polls","https:\u002F\u002Fglobalnews.ca\u002Fnews\u002F12068973\u002Fwho-are-bc-party-leaders-2026-election\u002F","The profile names Brodie as OneBC’s interim leader and describes her removal from the Conservative caucus, her split with Tara Armstrong, and her failed 2025 bill on land acknowledgements.",{"date":81,"publisher":2966,"title":5312,"url":5313,"summary":5314},"OneBC overwhelmed with candidates but fails to get party status","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.timescolonist.com\u002F2026-bc-votes\u002Fonebc-overwhelmed-with-candidates-but-fails-to-get-party-status-12821173","The clerk’s office said Chapman did not tell the Speaker or the clerk of his move before the legislature was dissolved, so OneBC did not gain official party status.",{"date":306,"publisher":5316,"title":5317,"url":5318,"summary":5319},"Western Standard","Day 8 of the 2026 BC Election: Carney comes to town","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westernstandard.news\u002Fbc\u002Fday-8-of-the-2026-bc-election-carney-comes-to-town\u002F77389","Brodie said OneBC would not run against what she called true conservatives. The outlet, citing CTV, listed eight Conservative candidates the party would not oppose, and reported that OneBC named candidates in Prince George-Valemount, Vernon-Lumby and Langley-Willowbrook.",[5321,2221],"Web searches for OneBC and Dallas Brodie with 2026, election, recall, Chapman and candidates",[5323],"Two articles could not be read because the sites refused both direct reads and WebFetch: Prince George Citizen, \"OneBC names candidate to target Conservative Bird\", and Castanet, \"OneBC names candidate for riding held by former party member Tara Armstrong\".",[5325,5326,5327,5328,5329],"Elections BC lists Dallas Brodie as the interim leader of OneBC. The legislature lists her as an Independent member for Vancouver-Quilchena, a seat she won for the BC Conservatives in 2024. The party says she is its candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena in 2026.","Brodie and Tara Armstrong launched the party in June 2025, after Brodie was removed from the Conservative caucus and Armstrong left it. Armstrong left OneBC in December 2025 and now sits as an Independent.","OneBC has no official party status in the legislature. On 2026-09-22 Brent Chapman, elected as a Conservative in Surrey South, announced he was joining OneBC. The clerk of the legislature said he did not tell the Speaker or the clerk before the legislature was dissolved, so the party standings did not change.","The party says it would cut every income tax rate by 25 percent, cut the provincial sales tax by 2 points, repeal DRIPA, remove SOGI 123 from classrooms, allow private health care alongside public care, and balance the budget within 4 years.","OneBC did not exist at the 2024 election, so it has no 2024 result. Its first annual financial report, for 2025, shows $177,568.50 in political contributions.",{"accent":5331,"onAccent":2231,"tint":5332,"ink":2233},"#0F766E","#e7f1f1",[5334,5360,5389,5397,5427,5447,5475,5482,5519,5526,5557],{"issue":181,"paragraphs":5335,"proposals":5338,"questions":5355,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5356,"gaps":5359},[5336,5337],"OneBC says it would make home ownership possible again for people with regular incomes, by opening new land for building and removing taxes that it says push up housing prices.","The party gives no cost or start date for any of these proposals.",[5339,5345,5350],{"title":5340,"detail":5341,"authority":5342,"cites":5343},"Remove the Step Code","The party says it would eliminate the Step Code, which it says raises housing costs with green building requirements it calls unnecessary.","The provincial government.",[5344,3533],"site-priorities",{"title":5346,"detail":5347,"authority":5348,"cites":5349},"Block city rent control","The party says it would block rent control programs run by cities, which it says discourage new building and new rental units.","A provincial law or rule that limits what cities can do.",[5344,3533],{"title":5351,"detail":5352,"authority":5353,"cites":5354},"Open new land for homes","The party says it would open new land for development and remove taxes that it says raise housing prices. It does not name the land or the taxes.","The party does not say who would act.",[3533],[],[5357,5358],"OneBC priorities page (1bc.ca\u002Fpriorities), read 2026-09-30","OneBC home page plan summary (1bc.ca), read 2026-09-30",[],{"issue":195,"paragraphs":5361,"proposals":5364,"questions":5385,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5386,"gaps":5388},[5362,5363,5337],"OneBC says it would allow private health care alongside fully funded public health care, and move spending from administration to front-line staff.","On addiction, the party says it would end safe supply and drug consumption programs, turn existing consumption sites into recovery centres, and use involuntary treatment and housing for people with severe addiction.",[5365,5370,5374,5379],{"title":5366,"detail":5367,"authority":5368,"cites":5369},"Private care alongside public care","The party says it would allow private health care alongside fully funded public health care.","A provincial law on how health care is paid for and delivered.",[5344,3533,5200],{"title":5371,"detail":5372,"authority":2262,"cites":5373},"Move administration money to front-line care","The party says it would shift administration and human resources spending to front-line employees and resources.",[5344],{"title":5375,"detail":5376,"authority":5377,"cites":5378},"End safe supply and consumption sites","The party says it would end safe supply and drug consumption programs, cancel all new consumption sites and turn current sites into recovery centres.","Provincial health programs.",[5344],{"title":5380,"detail":5381,"authority":5382,"cites":5383},"Involuntary treatment for severe addiction","The party says it would provide involuntary drug rehab and housing for people who are severely addicted.","A provincial law and provincial health programs.",[5344,5384],"site-petitions",[],[5357,5358,5387],"OneBC petitions page, read 2026-09-30",[],{"issue":167,"paragraphs":5390,"proposals":5391,"questions":5392,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5393,"gaps":5395},[],[],[],[5357,5358,5394],"OneBC candidate, leadership and petitions pages, read 2026-09-30",[5396],"The party’s pages list no proposal on prices, energy or car insurance rates, rebates or the minimum wage. Its tax cut proposals are under Taxes and budget.",{"issue":211,"paragraphs":5398,"proposals":5400,"questions":5424,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5425,"gaps":5426},[5399,5337],"OneBC says it would focus the justice system on repeat and violent offenders, and end decriminalization programs for drug use.",[5401,5406,5410,5415,5420],{"title":5402,"detail":5403,"authority":5404,"cites":5405},"Focus on repeat and violent offenders","The party says prosecutors would be told to treat past charges or convictions as a sign of future danger to the public.","Provincial instructions to Crown prosecutors.",[5344],{"title":5407,"detail":5408,"authority":5342,"cites":5409},"End decriminalization","The party says it would roll back all decriminalization programs and act against open drug use.",[5344],{"title":5411,"detail":5412,"authority":5413,"cites":5414},"Protect ports from smuggling","The party says it would work with the federal government against international criminal groups that bring drugs and firearms into the country through ports.","Needs the federal government.",[5344,3533],{"title":5416,"detail":5417,"authority":5418,"cites":5419},"No province role in federal firearm buy-backs","The party says the Province would not take part in any federal buy-back or confiscation of legally owned firearms, would pay for legal help for owners, and would run a provincial storage program for such firearms.","A provincial government decision.",[5344],{"title":5421,"detail":5422,"authority":5353,"cites":5423},"No masks at protests","The party lists a ban on wearing masks during protests. It gives no further detail.",[5344],[],[5357,5358],[],{"issue":174,"paragraphs":5428,"proposals":5430,"questions":5444,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5445,"gaps":5446},[5429,5337],"OneBC says the government’s role is to create conditions in which private business can do well, and that its role is not to create jobs itself.",[5431,5436,5440],{"title":5432,"detail":5433,"authority":5434,"cites":5435},"A pipeline to the north coast","The party says it would approve a pipeline to the Port of Prince Rupert or Kitimat to move Canadian energy to foreign markets.","The party does not say which government would approve it.",[5344,3533],{"title":5437,"detail":5438,"authority":5342,"cites":5439},"Review all provincial rules","The party says it would audit more than 176,000 provincial regulations to cut what it calls bureaucratic bloat. voche.me has not checked the figure.",[5344,3533],{"title":5441,"detail":5442,"authority":5342,"cites":5443},"More logging and lower stumpage fees","The party says it would increase the allowable yearly cut, reduce stumpage fees paid by lumber companies, and speed up permits and consultations for the forest industry.",[5344,3533],[],[5357,5358],[],{"issue":203,"paragraphs":5448,"proposals":5451,"questions":5471,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5472,"gaps":5474},[5449,5450,5337],"OneBC says it would remove SOGI 123 and what it calls politicized content from classrooms, and bring back standardized tests in reading, writing and math.","On its home page the party also says it would give public, private and home schooling equal funding, and make education an essential service by law. CBC News reported in June 2025 that the party wanted to take away teachers’ right to strike.",[5452,5457,5461,5466],{"title":5453,"detail":5454,"authority":5455,"cites":5456},"Remove SOGI 123","The party says it would remove SOGI 123 and politicized content from classrooms.","The provincial education ministry.",[5344,3533],{"title":5458,"detail":5459,"authority":5455,"cites":5460},"Bring back standardized testing","The party says it would bring back standardized tests that focus on reading, writing and math.",[5344,3533],{"title":5462,"detail":5463,"authority":5464,"cites":5465},"A Parental Bill of Rights","The party says it would pass a Parental Bill of Rights that guarantees informed consent and classroom openness for parents of minor-age students.","A bill passed by the legislature.",[5344,3533],{"title":5467,"detail":5468,"authority":5469,"cites":5470},"Equal funding and an essential service","The party says it would equalize funding for public, private and home schooling, and make education an essential service by law.","A provincial budget decision and a bill passed by the legislature.",[3533,5200],[],[5357,5358,5473],"CBC News report on the party launch, 2025-06-13",[],{"issue":219,"paragraphs":5476,"proposals":5477,"questions":5478,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5479,"gaps":5480},[],[],[],[5357,5358,5387],[5481],"The party’s home page says it is on a mission to preserve the environment, but its pages list no proposal on emissions, carbon pricing, wildfire or water. Its forestry proposals are under Economy and jobs.",{"issue":152,"paragraphs":5483,"proposals":5486,"questions":5514,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5515,"gaps":5518},[5484,5485,5337],"OneBC says it would repeal DRIPA, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and declare that UNDRIP has no force and effect in BC.","The party runs a petition asking the government to put the repeal of DRIPA to a referendum. The legislature’s 2026 index records Brodie asking the government about a referendum on repeal during question period.",[5487,5493,5497,5501,5506,5510],{"title":5488,"detail":5489,"authority":5464,"cites":5490},"Repeal DRIPA","The party says it would repeal DRIPA and declare UNDRIP to have no force and effect in BC.",[5344,3533,5491,5492],"site-dripa","leg-index-brodie-2026",{"title":5494,"detail":5495,"authority":5342,"cites":5496},"Stop transfers to band governments","The party says it would halt all voluntary transfers of cash, land and control over public resources to band governments.",[5344,3533],{"title":5498,"detail":5499,"authority":5353,"cites":5500},"Oversight of band spending","The party says it would restore oversight and accountability for spending by Indigenous bands.",[5344],{"title":5502,"detail":5503,"authority":5504,"cites":5505},"Repeal the Indian Act and turn reserves into townships","The party says it would demand changes to the Constitution to repeal the Indian Act, turn reserves into townships, and put all British Columbians under one law.","Needs the federal government and changes to the Constitution.",[5344,3533],{"title":5507,"detail":5508,"authority":5342,"cites":5509},"English names for public places","The party says it would restore the original names of public institutions and places, and that names must be mainly in English.",[5344,3533],{"title":5511,"detail":5512,"authority":5464,"cites":5513},"End required land acknowledgements","The party says it would end required land acknowledgements in government and in bodies funded by government. In October 2025 Brodie introduced a bill to ban some land acknowledgements, and the legislature voted it down at first reading.",[5344,5222],[],[5357,5358,5516,5517],"OneBC DRIPA referendum petition page, read 2026-09-30","Legislature 2026 Hansard index for Dallas Brodie",[],{"issue":876,"paragraphs":5520,"proposals":5521,"questions":5522,"state":2425,"indexable":153,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5523,"gaps":5524},[],[],[],[5357,5358,5387],[5525],"The party’s home page mentions public infrastructure, but its pages list no proposal on highways, transit or ferries.",{"issue":131,"paragraphs":5527,"proposals":5532,"questions":5553,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5554,"gaps":5556},[5528,5529,5530,5531],"OneBC says it would cut every income tax rate by 25 percent, including the corporate rate, and cut the provincial sales tax by 2 points.","The party says it would balance the budget within 4 years, aim for surpluses after that, and put part of each surplus toward paying down debt.","In June 2025 Global News reported that the party then promised a 50 percent tax cut on incomes under $100,000. The party’s pages read on 2026-09-30 give the 25 percent figure.","The party gives no cost for its tax cuts.",[5533,5538,5543,5549],{"title":5534,"detail":5535,"authority":5536,"cites":5537},"Cut income tax by 25 percent","The party says it would cut every personal and corporate income tax bracket by 25 percent.","Provincial tax rates, set by a bill passed by the legislature.",[5344,3533],{"title":5539,"detail":5540,"authority":5541,"cites":5542},"Cut the PST by 2 points","The party says it would take 2 percent off the provincial sales tax.","The PST rate, set by a bill passed by the legislature.",[5344,3533],{"title":5544,"detail":5545,"authority":5546,"cites":5547,"deadline":5548},"Balanced budgets","The party says it would balance the budget within 4 years and aim for surpluses after that.","The provincial budget.",[5344],"Within 4 years",{"title":5550,"detail":5551,"authority":5546,"cites":5552},"Pay down debt","The party says a part of each budget surplus would go to paying down debt, to lower the cost of interest.",[5344],[],[5357,5358,5555],"Global News report on the party launch, 2025-06-12",[],{"issue":143,"paragraphs":5558,"proposals":5560,"questions":5571,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5572,"gaps":5573},[5559,5337],"OneBC says it would adopt what it calls the Western Canada Alliance plan, under which BC would work with Alberta and Saskatchewan to strengthen provincial powers and bargain together for western interests and energy projects.",[5561,5566],{"title":5562,"detail":5563,"authority":5564,"cites":5565},"Western Canada Alliance","The party says BC would work with the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan to strengthen provincial sovereignty and their bargaining position on western interests and energy projects.","The provincial government, with Alberta and Saskatchewan.",[5344],{"title":5567,"detail":5568,"authority":5569,"cites":5570},"A referendum on DRIPA","The party’s petition asks cabinet to recommend to the Lieutenant Governor that the repeal of DRIPA be put to voters.","The provincial cabinet.",[5491],[],[5357,5358,5516],[5574],"Global News reported in June 2025 that the party then wanted to end mail-in and early voting. The party’s pages read on 2026-09-30 do not list this, and voche.me has not found whether the party still proposes it.",[5576,5580,5584,5589,5594,5598,5602],{"question":5577,"answer":5578,"cites":5579},"Who leads OneBC?","Dallas Brodie, as interim leader. Elections BC lists her as leader. The party board said it removed her in December 2025, and she wrote on 2025-12-21 that she had regained control of the party.",[2147,5228,5240],{"question":5581,"answer":5582,"cites":5583},"Does OneBC have official party status in the legislature?","No. It lost that status in December 2025 when Tara Armstrong left. The clerk’s office said Brent Chapman’s move in September 2026 came too late to change the party standings before the legislature was dissolved.",[5234,5259],{"question":5585,"answer":5586,"cites":5587},"Did Brent Chapman join OneBC?","He announced on 2026-09-22 that he was leaving the Conservatives for OneBC, and the party’s candidate page lists him in South Surrey. The legislature still lists him as a Conservative, because he did not notify the Speaker or the clerk before dissolution.",[5258,5588,2574,5259],"site-chapman",{"question":5590,"answer":5591,"cites":5592},"Where is Dallas Brodie running?","The party says she is its candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena. Elections BC’s list of accepted nominations, read on 2026-09-30, did not yet include her. Nominations close on 2026-10-03.",[5593,2634],"site-brodie",{"question":5595,"answer":5596,"cites":5597},"What does OneBC say about taxes?","The party says it would cut every income tax rate by 25 percent, cut the PST by 2 points and balance the budget within 4 years. It gives no cost for these plans.",[5344],{"question":5599,"answer":5600,"cites":5601},"What does OneBC say about reconciliation?","The party says it would repeal DRIPA, stop voluntary transfers of land and money to band governments, and end required land acknowledgements. It also asks for a referendum on repealing DRIPA.",[5344,5491],{"question":5603,"answer":5604,"cites":5605},"How much money did OneBC raise in 2025?","Its 2025 report to Elections BC shows $177,568.50 in political contributions for June to December 2025, and $40,580.25 in expenses.",[5201],{"entries":5607,"state":2132,"indexable":132,"checkedAt":25,"searched":5634,"gaps":5638},[5608,5613,5618,5622,5626,5630],{"date":4179,"title":5609,"body":5610,"cites":5611},"Land acknowledgement bill defeated at first reading","Dallas Brodie introduced the Land Acknowledgement Prohibition Act. She said it would make it unlawful for publicly funded bodies and their staff to make or require some land acknowledgements. The legislature voted it down at first reading, 5 to 85. Brodie and Tara Armstrong, then both OneBC members, voted Yea.",[5222,5612],"leg-index-brodie-2025",{"title":5614,"body":5615,"cites":5616},"Brodie voted against the 2026 budget","The legislature’s 2026 voting record lists Dallas Brodie as voting Nay on the budget motion, Nay at second and third reading of the Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2026 (Bill 2), and Nay at third reading of Bill 3. It lists her as voting Yea at third reading of the Supply Act, 2026-2027 (Bill 22).",[5617],"leg-votes-brodie",{"title":5619,"body":5620,"cites":5621},"Brodie voted against the K’ómoks Treaty Act","Dallas Brodie is recorded as voting Yea on an amendment moved at second reading, and Nay at second and third reading of the K’ómoks Treaty Act (Bill 20).",[5617],{"title":5623,"body":5624,"cites":5625},"Brodie voted against the 2026 freedom of information changes","Dallas Brodie is recorded as voting Nay at third reading of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2026 (Bill 9).",[5617],{"title":5627,"body":5628,"cites":5629},"Brodie voted to introduce bills to repeal DRIPA and the Human Rights Code","Dallas Brodie is recorded as voting Yea at first reading of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Repeal Act, the Human Rights Code Repeal Act, the Gender Ideology and Child Protection Act, and the Defunding Aboriginal Title Claims Affecting Private Property Act. She voted Nay on Motion 13, Support for human rights code and enforcement.",[5617],{"title":5631,"body":5632,"cites":5633},"Brodie voted for three bills at third reading","Dallas Brodie is recorded as voting Yea at third reading of the Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 2026 (Bill 14), the Safe Access to Schools Amendment Act, 2026 (Bill 12), and the Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 2026 (Bill 6).",[5617],[5635,5636,5637],"Legislature 2026 voting record by member, Dallas Brodie","Legislature 2026 and 2025 Hansard indexes by member, Dallas Brodie","Hansard transcript of 2025-10-23, morning sitting",[5639,5640,5641],"The legislature lists Brodie as an Independent for the whole 2026 session. Her votes are hers, and no source says she cast them on behalf of the party.","Tara Armstrong’s votes from June to December 2025, when she was a OneBC member, have not been compiled.","Brodie’s 2025 votes, apart from the land acknowledgement bill, have not been compiled.","onebc",[5644,5645,5646,5647,5648,5650,5653,5656,5659,5662,5665,5666,5669,5671,5673,5676,5679,5682,5685,5688,5691,5694,5698,5703,5707,5711,5715,5717,5719,5723,5725,5727,5729],{"id":2147,"label":2631,"url":2632,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":2634,"label":479,"url":36,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":2574,"label":2636,"url":2637,"publisher":487,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":42,"label":483,"url":44,"publisher":34,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},{"id":5617,"label":5649,"url":2641,"publisher":487,"kind":1942,"checkedAt":25},"Voting records by member, 2026 session, surnames starting with B (Dallas 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