UPDATED: Protests planned as controversial OneBC leader to speak in Langley<\/p>\n
Published 1:05 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026<\/p>\n
Protesters are expected to greet the controversial leader of the OneBC party when she arrives in Langley on Friday, Feb. 20, where she is scheduled to speak with a far-right activist at a local church.<\/p>\n
Dallas Brodie of OneBC is at the event organized by the Action4Canada organization, with its leader Tanya Gaw and host Danielle Pistilli.<\/p>\n
The event, dubbed \u201cThe Truth Matters,\u201d is to take place at the Riverside Calvary Chapel in Walnut Grove at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Brodie is a former B.C. Conservative MLA who was ejected from the party by then-leader John Rustad in March 2025, after she used a mocking voice to denigrate Indigenous residential school survivors during a podcast interview.<\/p>\n
She has also denied that there were any children buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.<\/p>\n
As a OneBC MLA, she has used her seat in the B.C. Legislature to attempt to ban land acknowledgements and end National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.<\/p>\n
In December, Brodie\u2019s two-member OneBC party went through a struggle for internal <\/a>control<\/a>, which ended with Brodie as the leader, and with the only other MLA \u2013 Tara Armstrong \u2013 leaving the party.<\/p>\n Local organizations Reconciliation Langley and the Langley Pride Society each posted calls for a peaceful protest on their Facebook pages.<\/p>\n The Reconciliation Langley page noted that the Action4Canada event listed anti-SOGI and reconciliation as topics of discussion.<\/p>\n \u201cWe invite community members and allies to come together in a peaceful and respectful way to stand in unity and support one another,\u201d said Reconciliation Langley\u2019s Feb. 17 posting.<\/p>\n \u201cBring flags, signs, and a friend,\u201d said the Langley Pride Society notice. \u201cLet us stand together and show these groups that Langley is a community of inclusion!\u201d<\/p>\n In January, several hundred protesters arrived at an appearance by Brodie on the University of B.C. campus.<\/p>\n The protesters chanted and blew horns and whistles. Brodie later said she was physically assaulted by two protesters, though apparently not injured. The smaller OneBC group took shelter in the campus aquatic centre.<\/p>\n Campus security and the RCMP asked the OneBC members to leave as the situation escalated, but they did not follow instructions, according to a statement later released by UBC.<\/p>\n Then police \u201cfacilitated their departure from campus,\u201d as RCMP escorted them to a bus. Brodie said she was never approached and told to leave.<\/p>\n