The Williams Lake Tribunal is reporting that "The B.C. Conservative Party is officially acknowledging that it uncovered evidence of an attempt to sign up fake members to vote in the leadership review of John Rustad."
BIV is reporting that "For the BC Conservatives, the question centres around more than 2,100 new memberships that suddenly appeared in Kelowna, on the eve of that riding’s upcoming vote in John Rustad’s leadership review process. The suspicious details led some to wonder if the party was trying to stack the deck in Rustad’s favour in his leadership review."
I'm not sure. There's a split in the party over the Kamloops residential school graves controversy. No bodies were found. It could have been the ones who split from the party trying to trigger a leadership review.
Global is reporting that "Two out of three MLAs who split with the BC Conservative Party earlier this year have launched their own new political party, dubbed OneBC.”
It's sadly unfortunate. Although they are well meaning I think it has consumed them with hate. I get it. No bodies were found and the far left used the claim to try and make us ashamed of our history. Again we need to balance the extremes.
Tara Armstrong, the house leader for the new One BC party is in Kelowna. Their whole platform is going after indigenous rights. I can't see it get off the ground. Which once again means David Eby's fiscal chaos and moral confusion will continue unchecked because we got greedy and split the vote.
Dallas Brodie, the one kicked out of the BC Conservatives, donated to the Peoples Party federally so it looks like they're going to try to take another step to the right.
A lot of the money that goes to the various reservations is shared between the Chief and his family not the whole reservation. They have corruption just like we do.
A coworker is First Nations and his family were kicked off the reservation because their family were related to the hereditary chief and the existing chief wanted to eliminate political opposition. Sound familiar? We all have the same problems no matter who we are. Now, all of a sudden right before an election, band members are getting cheques in the mail. For the first time in their history the Chief is starting to share some of the money with the other band members.
There was a lot of money that went missing over the Kamloops children's grave claim. No bodies were discovered and the money went missing. A lot of people are concerned about that. They're also concerned about removing property rights in BC. The courts have gone too far and we need to balance the extremes to reduce anger and bitterness.
There seems to be a discrepancy over what was said that caused Dallas Brodie to be kicked out of the BC Conservative party. The Wikipedia entry claims she said "When a large percentage of your people are on the Downtown Eastside, it's important that you come and take responsibility for that piece as well. It's not okay to leave your people."
It was a bit insensitive denying the reality of the hardships in the residential schools yet the concerns with band chiefs not sharing money with band members is also a concern.
CBC reported that "Leader John Rustad said the ejection was a result of Brodie's recent appearance on a podcast where, he said, she uses a mocking, child-like voice to belittle testimony from former residential school students, saying things like 'my grandmother's truth' and 'my truth, your truth' in a child-like 'whining' voice." If that's true that's completely unacceptable.
Wikipedia goes on to say "In February 2025, Brodie posted a statement on X that read in part: "The number of confirmed child burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site is zero. Zero. No one should be afraid of the truth. Not lawyers, their governing bodies, or anyone else."
That is a true statement and we need to recognize that because allowing extremists to use that false claim to justify burning down churches has created a huge division in Canada.
Wikipedia further explained that "Conservative house leader Áʼa꞉líya Warbus criticized the post as harmful and a distraction for the party from more important issues." Yes and no. Residential schools denial is a distraction from more important issues but in the spirit of truth hand reconciliation confronting that lie that justified burning down churches is important.
Á'a:líya Warbus's post on X said "Inform yourself, get the latest facts, research AND talk to survivors. Questioning the narratives of people who lived and survived these atrocities, is nothing but harmful and taking us backward in reconciliation." Yes and no.
The concern that many people have isn't a denial of the testimonies of residential school survivors. We all know it was a horrible thing. Yet using that truth to deflect from the fact that there were no bodies found on the Kamloops site like the media claimed which created a hateful frenzy is dishonest.
Using lies to promote hate is bad. That's what residential school deniers do and that's what you are doing when you refuse to confront the hate the false claim about Kamloops created.
To be perfectly honest, I'm disappointed in everyone. David Eby is a circus freak. Aisha Estey is an air head. I think Dallas Brodie is hateful and I think Áʼa꞉líya Warbus' well meaning deflection and denial of the fake Kamloops claim diminishes not only her but all of us. It also furthers polarization and alienation.
A lot of us are sick and tired of being told to hate ourselves and hate our heritage. It was wrong to do that in the residential schools and it's wrong to do it now. A lot of us are sick of the perpetual victimization and extortion for something we didn't do.
The world is full of many races not just one. No one race is any better than any other. We are all equal. There's no white privileged, black privilege, brown privilege, yellow privilege or red privileged. There is no privilege so stop trying to make us slaves. All people are equal. Leave it at that.
I'm sick of the entitlement. The unresolved land claims cover more land than even exists in BC. That's because different tribes claim the same land. Just like in Palestine we need to learn to share the land with each other.
People come here from all over the world. They have just as much right to be here as you or I. Telling the truth means remembering that slavery was practiced in the Pacific Northwest. In Fort Langley the Natives got along well with the British fur traders because the fur traders had guns and protected them from other tribes that would raid them and carry away slaves. We need to recognize that. Denying that foresters alienation not reconciliation.
I met a hereditary war chief from Tofino. He said their tribe was able to fight off a larger tribe that tried to invade them from America because the white fur traders gave them guns to fight off the invading tribe. We can't give every tribe everything they want because that would leave nothing for anyone else.
I'm also disappointed in Áʼa꞉líya Warbus. I originally saw her as a shining light. I reached out to her to have a heart to heart about her feelings about the residential school rift and her office said nope. So much for dialogue and mutual respect. It all boils down to politics and power. One of the seven deadly sins.
