OneBC interim leader Dallas Brodie says she is open to making a deal with the Conservatives during the B.C. election despite questions about why they are running in her riding.
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OneBC interim leader Dallas Brodie says she does not understand why the Conservatives are running a candidate in her riding in the B.C. election, but she is prepared to make a deal with her former party.
Brodie, the incumbent legislator for Vancouver-Quilchena, is set to face Conservative candidate Carson Binda. Binda had been the provincial director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation before entering elected politics.
Binda’s candidacy was announced on Sept. 29, two days after Brodie said on social media that OneBC’s party would not run candidates in a handful of ridings where “true” Conservatives were on the ballot.
Brodie said the decision was a sign of good faith after earlier talks with B.C. Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson. She said OneBC later faced a change in course, with the Conservatives announcing they would run candidates in two of those ridings.
One of those ridings is Kelowna-Centre, where Kristina Loewen won by 40 votes in the last election. Brodie said OneBC can win the riding, describing it as the “conservative choice.”
Brodie said OneBC is willing to withdraw its yet-to-be-named candidate in exchange for talks with the Conservatives. “We have been making gestures and taking actions to show our willingness to make deals,” Brodie said.
She also said she believes the Conservatives need her, adding that “in many ways, they created me.”
Brodie was kicked out of the B.C. Conservative caucus last year by former party leader John Rustad after she mocked the testimony of residential school survivors.
Asked about electoral co-operation with OneBC, Doerkson said conversations have taken place, but that there has been nothing formal. “We will be bringing conservative values for certain to the people of British Columbia after elected.”
OneBC emerged as a splinter group from the Conservatives in 2025 and, when the election was called, it lacked official status in the legislature as a recognized party.
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