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Conservative Party of BC Caucus I HAVE TO laugh at the emails I receive from the BC NDP.   There’s never a time they don’t outright trash the BC Conservative Party, but hey, all party’s do it, right? Still, I found yesterday’s email very entertaining because of their so-called two key points about the Conservatives, and of course their solicitation of donations.   Here’s a snapshot from the email: I spend A LOT of time watching our BC NDP team work for people in the Legislature and this spring I noticed two key things about John Rustad and his BC Conservatives. 1.    They’re completely out of touch with what matters to everyday British Columbians; and 2.    They’re absolutely serious about trying to bring down our government as soon as they can. We have a razor-thin majority. To defend it — and preserve all the good work we’ve done for people in the last seven years — we have to be ready for whatever he throws at us. Right now, we aren’t. We have...

While the NDP brought forward a thin legislative agenda this session, our Conservative Caucus delivered real wins for British Columbians — not just through legislation, but through consistent advocacy, public pressure, and principled opposition. “ As the spring session comes to a close, I want to thank our team for a season of hard work and meaningful results ,” added John Rustad, MLA for Nechako Lakes and Leader of the Official Opposition. From repealing the carbon tax and ending unwitnessed safe supply, to securing critical services for children like Charleigh Pollock and calling out government failure in tragedies like the death of Chantelle Williams, our team has made a tangible impact. While the NDP struggles to manage public backlash over Bills 7, 14, and 15, our caucus was advancing practical solutions. Our members tabled 11 private members’ bills focused on affordability, mental health, emergency response, public safety, and interprovincial trade. Several of these initiatives w...

When you start looking at what’s going on with these projects, with overlapping boundaries with First Nations and all through the consultation process, I’m just wondering how this is actually going to work if it’s only up to cabinet to make that decision and not allowing the people of this province, the people that are in this room right now, to be able to be part of that process ~~ Ward Stamer – MLA for Kamloops North Thompson, and Opposition Forestry Critic The reality is we have an energy electrification deficit in this province. We knew this was coming years ago. BC Hydro did not adequately plan for the future. Now they’re trying to wrap everything together in clean energy because of some unknown reason other than we’re supposed to save the planet all by ourselves. The reality is we need to have certainty of supply not only for electrification and electricity but for a wide variety of things in this product. Without input, we don’t have output ... ... some of the concerns th...