FORMER B.C. Conservative MLAs Dallas Brodie, Jordan Kealy, and Tara Armstrong on Monday said in a statement that they are “united and looking forward to working together on a shared vision of a more prosperous future for everyone in British Columbia.”
They will sit as independent MLAs in the Legislature and plan to explore the launch of a new political party.
They said: “On Friday, John Rustad demonstrated yet another betrayal of Conservative values by removing Ms. Brodie from caucus. Ms. Brodie had correctly stated that there are no confirmed burials at the former residential school site in Kamloops. She was the first elected politician in Canada to make this statement publicly.
“During an unprecedented economic attack from U.S. and Chinese tariffs threatening tens of thousands of B.C. jobs, we need honest and competent leadership more than ever.
“It’s ironic that just three years after Kevin Falcon removed John Rustad from caucus, Rustad has now removed Dallas Brodie from caucus.”
Brodie said: “I spoke the truth because it matters. I will never back down from it. It is an indisputable fact that the number of bodies discovered at Kamloops is zero. The truth is a threat to powerful vested interests in the multi-billion-dollar reconciliation industry”
Kealy said: ““I have decided to leave John Rustad’s Conservatives because he doesn’t have the courage or the integrity to defeat the NDP or to fight for the people in my constituency.”
Armstrong said: “I’m not just standing up for Dallas. I’m standing up for every one of my constituents and every British Columbian who is being sold out by David Eby and John Rustad. People are struggling to pay for the basic necessities of life in British Columbia. Our prosperity is strangled by taxes and red tape and now we face a tariff attack from the world’s two largest economies.”
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