The emerging British Columbia Conservative Party will hold its annual general meeting this weekend while members are trying to find their feet, a week in the provincial legislative session, said a main and conservative member.
Peter Milobar, Kamloops conservative deputy, said in an interview that the party and its diverse fan of candidates met “in very strange circumstances”, in the middle of the summer and only a few weeks before the call of a general election.
“I see that we are very new party, really at the base,” he said. “And so, I think we always find our feet.”
The party existed on the sidelines of the British Columbia policy for years, but it has passed not to have been elected in the previous provincial elections to a mustache of government formation in October, its 44 members composing the official opposition.
His climbing occurred after Kevin Falcon of the United British Columbia Falcon has suspended the party’s electoral campaign last August so as not to divide the voting on the right, while the support of the conservatives had jumped.
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Some members of British Columbia from the Legislative Assembly – of which Milobar – jumped to the Conservatives. Others have tried the independent and lost route.
The result is a caucus with divergent views that were exposed during the legislative session. British Columbia Conservative John Rustad described it as “family” problems.
When asked this week if there was a ditch within the party, Rustad brushed it.
“You know, I find it interesting because for the media, and I think that for the public, they have never seen a political party that accepts the differences.”
He said he expected the party’s AGA in Nanaimo, British Columbia, a “democratic process” where members make decisions about the modernization of the party and ensure that they are ready to face the NPD in the next elections.
The cracks in the caucus became clear when the conservative deputy Dallas Brodie posted on social networks on February 22 that there was “zero” children’s burial sites in the former Kamloops residential school, in British Columbia,
Rustad said he had asked him to withdraw him, but the position remains a week later.
The head of the conservative chamber, Aliya Warbus, who is native, said that the questioning of the stories of those who survived the atrocities of residential schools is harmful, even if she denied having responded to the post of Brodie.
Milobar also did not mention the names when he talked about the residence “denial of the denial of the residential school in the legislative assembly this week.
But he said he had sworn to those of the first nation tk’emlups Te Secwepemc, where the former resident school of Kamloops is located, which he would always be against that.
“As you know, my wife, my children, they are all indigenous. My grandchildren are native, my son-in-law is a member of the Kamloops group.
“These types of things are very personal, and therefore when the denial is the fact from time to time in the wider conversation, both in British Columbia and through the country, this has a direct impact on TK’emlups,” he said in an emotional discourse.
Conservative members elect a new board of directors during the weekend agreement, but Rustad told journalists this week that there was “no mechanism” for a leadership exam during this meeting.
However, he said that members would have asked this year if they wish to examine leadership, in accordance with the party’s constitution.
This Canadian press report was published for the first time on March 1, 2025.
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