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While OneBC’s Dallas Brodie is relatively new to politics, she’s already had a roller-coaster career.
She ran as a B.C. Conservative in 2022, lost to the B.C. Liberals’ Kevin Falcon, ran again in 2024 and won the Vancouver-Quilchena seat for the B.C. Conservatives, got kicked out of the party in 2025, formed a new political party — OneBC — and shortly after, was removed as leader of OneBC and then reinstated about a week later.
Now, as interim leader of OneBC, she is hoping to win a few more seats for the party in the upcoming provincial election — a snap election she believes NDP Leader David Eby will regret calling.
“Nothing is working in B.C. at all. Every file is on fire. Nothing’s working to the satisfaction of the citizens of B.C., and here he is blathering on about Donald Trump,” she told CBC’s On The Coast.
“Our little election here in B.C. is not going to change the path ahead for negotiations between the two countries.”
Brodie spoke with CBC’s Michelle Eliot as the election campaign began.
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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Brent Chapman left the B.C. Conservatives and joined your party very recently. How did that come about?
We were thrilled. It was very sudden and it happened. And he sent in his letter to the speaker and it was done. Brent and I have been friends since I met him when I first got into politics. And I’m really thrilled. We’re honoured actually, to have Brent join us.
We are going to be announcing a lot of different candidates. We’ve had over 300 applications from people across the province to run as candidates for OneBC and we are literally inundated. We are trying to just go through them all right now and we are just getting ready to run as many candidates as we possibly can.
How do you distinguish OneBC from the B.C. Conservative Party?
Funny thing is, everything OneBC has brought up and run on and talked about was really all in the original B.C. Conservative platform. I was only expelled from the party as a result of the issue at the Law Society involving the non-graves at the Kamloops residential school. But I’ve continued to do the same work that I was elected to do back in 2024.
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I think that OneBC, at this point, is bringing a whole fresh approach where we act with complete honesty and integrity. And we will build a team that doesn’t have these crazy fractures in them. The problems that the Conservative Party has had were baked in from the very beginning.
How do you see the B.C. Conservatives under Lorne Doerkson? Is it different from the party that you joined?
Probably, no. It’s the same group with the same divisions and the same problems. I mean, Lorne is a very steady hand. He’s a kind man and I like Lorne very much. So he’s a calm influence, I would think. But the party has not changed and the personalities haven’t changed and there’s the same stuff going on again. I think the whole goal of the centre-right movement, including ourselves, is that we really should be focusing our efforts to take down this insane Eby government.
We are now in an election almost two years to the day when the B.C. NDP just won a majority government. There is absolutely no reason for this election to be going ahead right now except for the cynical, reckless and frankly selfish decision making of David Eby. There is no reason for this election. And for heaven’s sake, it is certainly not about an election that’s going to at all scare or change our relationship with Donald Trump.
Let’s not forget, this is costing the better part of $100 million to run this election. That is money that we have been told is not available for parents with kids with autism. It’s not available for seniors in seniors homes. The cupboards are bare, which they are because of his flagrant and irresponsible spending, putting us at a deficit now of close to $14 billion.
Are you concerned about a vote split on the right?
I think the goal here would be to try and avoid a split on the right. There will be most likely discussions going forward. Our membership is surging in the wake of basically the coup that took place against Kerry-Lynne Findlay. We’re ready to go and we have membership. It’s just been incredible, the move over from the Conservative Party to OneBC. And we’re going to just do the best we can. We know there are specific ridings where we will definitely win, but then we want to spread it out further from that.
What is your pitch to voters in this election?
We believe that there needs to be prosperity for everyone in B.C. We want to get rid of all race-based laws and we’d like to restore a sense of fiscal responsibility in a big way to British Columbia. If I were premier, I would immediately start a complete and full forensic audit of the books of the legislature. I know from being there over the last two years that the waste is unbelievable. And this may be optimistic, but I think it’s possible we could find enough waste in there to erase our deficit.
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We are spending money on ideological puff projects that are not helping anyone. Meantime, we have people dying in waiting rooms, emergency rooms, and people can’t get the care they need. We’ve got schools that aren’t getting kids the reading and writing they need. And we also would like to immediately repeal all of the sort of social engineering we’re seeing in the schools and repeal SOGI 123 and replace it with maybe something like Resilience 123 instead. We’d also like to remove all DEI from the publicly-funded universities so that we get back to meritorious applications.
When it comes to SOGI, how do you respond to people in the LGBTQ community who worry about the removal of those resources as a resulting in more discrimination?
Well, you’re saying that would result in more discrimination. But really, it was introduced as an anti-bullying project back in 2016, and it’s become something completely different than that. And we have parents complaining a lot about what their kids are being exposed to at school.