{"id":233469,"date":"2025-10-23T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233469\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T03:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:58:16","slug":"bc-conservative-committee-pens-letter-asking-john-rustad-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233469\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Conservative committee pens letter asking John Rustad to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The BC Conservative Party\u2019s management committee has penned a letter to leader <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/john-rustad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Rustad<\/a> asking him to resign immediately.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760811489_47_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While the committee has no power to remove Rustad as leader, the letter is signed by some of the key people who helped the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bc-conservatives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC Conservatives<\/a> win 44 seats in the last provincial election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the leader, it is your responsibility to unite the party around a common vision and to lead us forward with purpose and clarity,\u201d the letter reads in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs evidenced by sagging poll numbers, memberships, fundraising, a shrinking caucus and staff, philosophically inconsistent policy, low morale, and perhaps most importantly, a lack of enthusiasm and tepid endorsement from our membership, your leadership has ceased to serve that purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Amelia Boultbee quits BC Conservative caucus'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/web_boultbee_quiting_zussman.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3:18<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmelia Boultbee quits BC Conservative caucus\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This comes two days after <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11485723\/mla-bc-conservative-caucus-cites-unraveling-leader-john-rustad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Penticton-Summerland MLA Amelia Boultbee<\/a> announced she was quitting the BC Conservative Party to sit as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m shocked on one level because that to me seems very significant, but I think that\u2019s the right thing to do,\u201d Boultbee told Global News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760811490_766_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI support that letter. I haven\u2019t read it myself, but I hope that John will take a look at the real situation here, stop deluding himself. He\u2019s convinced himself there\u2019s no problem and that this is all just gonna go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11489384\/canada-budget-election-possibility-steven-mackinnon\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761191895_399_706f0fe491f3a4825fb215a2f9ff38a08c70bbd55d2c946373cadf75c95d5053.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWill Carney\u2019s budget trigger election? Liberals say that\u2019s up to opposition\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11485876\/child-overboard-disney-cruise-ship-details\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761191895_723_disney-dream-cruiseship.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t5-year-old girl fell overboard on Disney cruise due to mom: police report\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rustad has already responded to the letter, saying he will not resign as leader.<\/p>\n<p>Rustad told reporters that the letter was an \u201cinternal matter within the party\u201d and he plans to \u201chave an opportunity to speak with the management committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Letter penned to John Rustad asking him to resign'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/RUSTAD_LETTER_thumbnail_1280x720.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:18<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLetter penned to John Rustad asking him to resign\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The BC Conservative Party\u2019s management committee has penned a letter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[110683,43,110682,44,714,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-233469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bc-conservatives","tag-headlines","tag-john-rustad","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}