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Three B.C. Conservatives kicked from the party will sit as Independents

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 10 Mar, 2025 09:58 AM

Three former B.C. Conservative legislators have announced they will sit as Independents in the provincial legislature.

Dallas Brodie was kicked out of the party on Friday over her comments about residential schools, and Jordan Kealy and Tara Armstrong left the party saying Opposition Leader John Rustad had abandoned the truth.

In 2021, the Kamloops Indian Band claimed the bodies of 215 children lay in unmarked graves at a former residential school. They received over $12 million to investigate. Yet, no remains have been found.

Where did the money go? /1
— Dallas Brodie (@Dallas_Brodie) March 9, 2025

Kealy had said Friday that he'd be setting up a new party, but Brodie told reporters outside the legislature today that for now they'll be sitting as Independents and although there are "whispers" of others leaving the party, she won't give names.

Armstrong says Rustad “caved to the woke liberals who have infiltrated the party.”

The upheaval started when Rustad asked Brodie to remove a social media post last month, where she said "zero" child burials had been confirmed at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Armstrong says no one was surprised when New Democrat Premier David Eby attacked Brodie for telling the truth about Kamloops, but Rustad’s “cowardly decision stabbed her in the back revealed just how corrupt he has become.”

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