{"id":770606,"date":"2026-06-30T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:49:12","slug":"new-conservative-leader-findlay-fills-new-leadership-with-loyalists-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770606\/","title":{"rendered":"New Conservative leader Findlay fills new leadership with loyalists \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA \u2013 New B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has filled several roles on her leadership team with loyalists.<\/p>\n<p>Findlay, who currently does not hold a seat in the legislature, has appointed Chilliwack-area MLA Heather Maahs as interim leader, while Sheldon Clare, a Prince George MLA, is the house leader for the Official Opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Both endorsed Findlay during the leadership race, as did Kelowna-area MLA Macklin McCall, who will serve as whip.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a2bbef81485b6ef732afb21c1b4ebd516bc4b9e8075acf3f1d2ffb57173bf367.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"6500\" data-pswp-height=\"4333\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a2bbef81485b6ef732afb21c1b4ebd516bc4b9e8075acf3f1d2ffb57173bf367.jpg\" alt=\"Elected leader of the B.C. Conservative Party Kerry-Lynne Findlay speaks during leadership election night in Vancouver, on Saturday, May 30, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tElected leader of the B.C. Conservative Party Kerry-Lynne Findlay speaks during leadership election night in Vancouver, on Saturday, May 30, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n<p>She has also appointed lieutenants to cover regions in the Interior, Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, and two MLAs to look after stakeholder relations, including Brent Chapman, Findlay\u2019s husband.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Findlay says in a statement that her new leadership team\u202frepresents\u202fa unified force from all parts of B.C., tasked with holding the NDP government to account.<\/p>\n<p>She says the Conservatives are building a \u201cbig tent party\u201d where B.C. residents of all walks of life are welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe B.C. Conservative Caucus is more united than it has ever\u202fbeen and\u202fis ready to\u202ftake on the NDP when the legislature resumes sitting in the fall,\u202fand form government\u202fafter the next election,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clare\u2019s appointment to the role of house leader means that he is replacing A\u2019a:liya Warbus, the party\u2019s only Indigenious MLA.<\/p>\n<p>Warbus, who is a member of the Sto:lo Nation and the daughter of former B.C. Lt.-Gov. Steven Lewis Point, was first appointed to the role by former leader John Rustad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 29, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VICTORIA \u2013 New B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has filled several roles on her leadership team with loyalists.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-770606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770606","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=770606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}