Surrey Conservative MLA Hepner wants to give Findlay \u2018runway\u2019 to fix \u2018chaos\u2019<\/p>\n
Published 1:00 pm Friday, September 4, 2026<\/p>\n
Surrey-Serpentine River Conservative MLA and former Surrey mayor Linda Hepner says she will afford embattled party leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay a \u201cpathway\u201d to resolve matters in the wake of a recent exodus of MLAs from her caucus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of innuendo out there and who is leaving next scenarios,\u201d Hepner told the Now-Leader on September 3. \u201cI certainly believe that we are in a situation that requires very careful crisis management and I am going to give Kerry-Lynne Findlay the runway that she deserves while she\u2019s trying to win a byelection and I will make my own decisions as things move on but right now I\u2019m doing my own due diligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not in any way prepared at this point in time to jump ship,\u201d she said. \u201cShe was a duly elected elected leader and I want to give her the opportunity to see where this byelection takes her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe that making a decision at a time of chaos is the right time to do it, and I\u2019m not going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Findlay is seeking a personal election win in Abbotsford-Mission on September 26.<\/p>\n
Bryan Tepper, Conservative MLA for Surrey-Panorama, said September 3 that the Conservatives have a \u201cstrong party and brand and I don\u2019t think abandoning it is a smart course of action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow Surrey Conservative MLAs Mandeep Dhaliwal (Surrey North), Trevor Halford (Surrey-White Rock) and Brent Chapman (Surrey South, and Findlay\u2019s husband) have not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Surrey-Cloverdale Independent MLA Elenore Sturko, bounced from the Conservative caucus by former leader John Rustad in 2025, said it\u2019s \u201cnot surprising\u201d to see many of her former colleagues leaving under Findlay\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that we\u2019ve seen her surround herself with people for example with connections to the Alberta separatist movement,\u201d Sturko said, \u201cand her firing of many moderate voices even within the staff structure, so I\u2019m not surprised by that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey Conservative MLA Hepner wants to give Findlay \u2018runway\u2019 to fix \u2018chaos\u2019 Published 1:00 pm Friday, September 4,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-884572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884572","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=884572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}